Why Are Reading and Writing Skills Important in a Democretic Society
Why are Reading and Writing Skills Important in Democratic Society?
Education is a social process. Education is growth.
Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
Nowadays reading and writing is not a privilege or a status, it is a way of communication and a significant part of our everyday life. Time when most of literate and educated people were from wealthy and privileged families is long gone. It is no longer the case when people from less fortunate families would be bound to do a hard labor and never get a chance to get a proper education.
Before exploring the subject, let’s first define the meaning of the word democracy. Democracy, according to Merriam Webster dictionary, is a form of government in which supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodic free elections. Democracy represents the principles of social equality, rights, privileges and respect for the individual within a community where minority has equal rights with majority. Democratic society is not an environment of political prejudice, but freedom of speech and religion. Every country and every nation has its own history and believes. The Soviet Union had totalitarian control and the United States is a federal republic. People from these countries fought and still fight for their freedom of speech and democratic rights. Social media is a crucial part of life these days and age.
Let’s take a look at two countries with different political controls. During The Soviet Union era there was no democracy. Books in store were limited to Karl Marks’, Vladimir Lenin’s works or the one that was explaining the importance of communism. Nevertheless, people who wanted to know what was beyond the Iron Curtain despite the fear to be pursued somehow found prohibited literature, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche. They wanted to live in
Education is a social process. Education is growth.
Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
Nowadays reading and writing is not a privilege or a status, it is a way of communication and a significant part of our everyday life. Time when most of literate and educated people were from wealthy and privileged families is long gone. It is no longer the case when people from less fortunate families would be bound to do a hard labor and never get a chance to get a proper education.
Before exploring the subject, let’s first define the meaning of the word democracy. Democracy, according to Merriam Webster dictionary, is a form of government in which supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodic free elections. Democracy represents the principles of social equality, rights, privileges and respect for the individual within a community where minority has equal rights with majority. Democratic society is not an environment of political prejudice, but freedom of speech and religion. Every country and every nation has its own history and believes. The Soviet Union had totalitarian control and the United States is a federal republic. People from these countries fought and still fight for their freedom of speech and democratic rights. Social media is a crucial part of life these days and age.
Let’s take a look at two countries with different political controls. During The Soviet Union era there was no democracy. Books in store were limited to Karl Marks’, Vladimir Lenin’s works or the one that was explaining the importance of communism. Nevertheless, people who wanted to know what was beyond the Iron Curtain despite the fear to be pursued somehow found prohibited literature, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche. They wanted to live in
Cited: from: 1. 75 Readings Plus, 9th edition; eds. Buscemi and Smith, p.22. 2. http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/ls201/dewey2.html. 3. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/democracy. 4. http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/quotations-education. 5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAiOEV0v2RM.