Yet in our enthusiasm for the ...

Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a crucial point: in today's culture, finely honed literacy skills are simply not as important as they once were.
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 Hugh Mackay

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Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.
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 Hugh Mackay
Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.
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I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties.
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With increasing frequency and growing vehemence, you hear people saying they are ashamed to be Australians.
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Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.
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 Hugh Mackay