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SS: I make a case for drastically cutting back on education. I argue that education doesn’t achieve its desired goals. The material is irrelevant and students forget much of the material. Most information taught in schools is quickly accessible with a smartphone. Education might be warranted if it boosted cognitive ability but it appears to be increasing IQ scores rather than actual ability to think.
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“Functionally illiterate” means the exact opposite: that you CAN pass literacy tests (they kind they give up to grade 6, anyway) but can’t read well enough to read and understand something in day-to-day life.
It looks like functional illiteracy is a badly defined term anyway.
From wiki.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_illiteracy
“ A reading level that might be sufficient to make a farmer functionally literate in a rural area of a developing country might qualify as functional illiteracy in an urban area of a technologically advanced country.”
Because they can’t understand how to RTFM? I think there’s a weird standard here, not everyone needs to understand anything above a 6th grade level to do many jobs, in my mind these people are literate enough for what they need.
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Bleh my bad for mixing ideas without paying attention. I don't think that impacts the point though - I'm pretty sure even level 1 and below adults (22%) can read significantly more than they could if school was simply abolished, and L2 + L3 (32% + 33%) "can perform simple tasks based on the information they read".
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