Literacy

Many people have many different ideas about what literacy is, is it writing, reading, or anything to do with how we communicate. To me literacy can mean knowledge, skills, or even an understanding of anything you can think of. You can have literacy in anything that you can understand or learn about, such as media, politics, cultures. Literacy is the knowledge people have about certain things or groups of things. The reading about Malcom X shows that a person who knows nothing of literacy and is considered illiterate by many can change. Anyone such as Malcom X can pick up a book and learn new things. Once you learn as much as you can learn, then you can consider yourself literate in whatever it was you were reading about. Malcom X knew nothing about his own people or what happened to them, but he learned about it and went on to protest against the injustice that happened back then. Theres are also varying levels of literacy, just because you don't know everything there is to know about a subject or idea, doesn't mean you are illiterate on that subject. I love Greek history, but I do not consider myself an expert on the subject. That does not mean that I am illiterate on Greek history, it justs means I can stand to learn more. Literacy is a very vast idea and there is more than one way of looking at it. It isn't just a knowledge of reading and writing, it is a broad spectrum of skill and knowledge on anything you can think of.