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The ideal of universal literacy, in the west anyway, was first of all a protestant idea - that everybody had to be able to read to save their soul. that idea got transposed into an idea of the importance of literacy for democratic citizenship.

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The Ideal Of Universal Literacy, In The

Robert Hass

The ideal of universal literacy, in the west anyway, was first of all a protestant idea - that everybody had to be able to read to save their soul. that idea got transposed into an idea of the importance of literacy for democratic citizenship.

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