Most people are of the opinion that all literate are educated and illiterates are uneducated. But what defines a human to be a literate or educated.
Literacy is defined as the ability to read and write, either in the mother tounge or some other language, while a educated person is the one who has the knowledge and means what he does .
Being educated and being literate are two distinct things. Possesing degree certificates and embossing behind actually entails that these people are literate and not educated. But being educated depends on how one conducts himself in different situations, adherence to norms, maintaing ethics and how one behaves in public places.
India has a great shortage of educated men (don’t read it as literate men). We evidence them in our day to day lives. Regrettably, we see large proportion of uneducated literates than educated illterates. We more often find the literate overruling norms everywhere, like traffic norms, parking regualtions etc.. I just gives a feeling that our system of teaching drives a thought process that by becoming literates, they own the authority to be slothful and override.
Corruption is India, in my opinion is highly employed by the literates, in all end of the system owing to their laziness.
Till date, not even 50% of literates vote in the public election. Yet we still have more than 60% of the illterates voting in every election.
Literate mass who don’t vote, yet they are ready to come up with reasons for not voting and lecturing on the govt. system till the next election.
They are literate. But they are far from being educated. Wish the literates educate themselves before they even think of teaching others.
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