Prompt 1

Literacy is a collection of arts brought together through the years consisting of information and events that have happened throughout history, along with fictions that have been established for the purpose of entertaining others. To be literate, in one aspect, is to have the ability to comprehend and utilize new information. A literate person has the ability to take facts from something, a story or a riddle or an article, and piece together the solution before it is given to them, or to create an argument towards the topic being spoken of. In today's society, there many people who can't read or write, only because they haven't been taught yet, but there are also many people who can read and write but cannot truly comprehend ideas from literature. Does that mean that these people should be classified as illiterate? I don't necessarily think so. As said by Alvin Toffler, "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." I agree with this statement. I believe an individuals greatest ability is to regain lost knowledge. I'm just rambling. Of course you will forget things. It's part of everyday life. But your ability to "relearn" those things, to regain that knowledge astounds me. Think about this for a second. What if Einstein had forgotten his equation and couldn't piece it together from his notes? Do you still think he would be as widely known? Of course not, because everyone would be unable to remember his name, his actions, his influence in the scientific field. We would have lost everything that happened in our history long withstanding because after we had learned it, we could have easily forgotten it.