All of this fuels adult illiteracy - there are 775 million women and men today who cannot read or write.
UNESCO: Published in South China Morning Post on 17 October 2012.
Provisional data from the Indian government's 2011 census states that about 25% of the country's population cannot read or write.
There is also a learning crisis: Worldwide, 250 million children of primary school age cannot read or write, whether they are in school or not.
There are today 250 million children of primary school age who cannot read or write, and some 71 million teenagers who are out of secondary school.
UNESCO: Published in South China Morning Post on 17 October 2012.
There is also a learning crisis: around the world, 250 million children of primary school age cannot read or write, whether they are in school or not.
There is also a learning crisis: around the world, at least 250 million children of primary school age cannot read or write, whether they are in school or not.
There are today 250 million children of primary school age who cannot read or write, and some 71 million teenagers who are out of secondary school. 200 million young people in developing countries have not completed primary school.
The forthcoming UNESCO Education For All Global Monitoring Report estimates that some 61 million primary school - age children still have no access to school, while 250 million children who should have reached fourth grade cannot read or write whether they are in school or not.
The result, notes Mr Hyman ruefully, is that children are starting to learn (or, more accurately, to attend lessons in) Spanish, when they cannot even read or write English.
This is a simple story of the members of a peasant family in Sicily, who cannot communicate with their emigrant son, because they are unable to read or write.
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