Comments on: Palliatives Considered Dangerous http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/05/27/palliatives-considered-dangerous/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:41:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kris http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/05/27/palliatives-considered-dangerous/comment-page-1/#comment-212 Kris Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/05/27/131#comment-212 Well this is an interesting take on this & Rao's point is on firm grounds. On a more fundamental level this begs the question of what is literacy?. Is being able to read and write & surf the gazillions of a foreign language site literacy. This seems to undermine the multitudes of information that people innately posess by living where they live. You only have to stroll with a villager by a forest to learn how much they know about their natural enviroment without having "literacy". Well this is an interesting take on this & Rao’s point is on firm grounds.

On a more fundamental level this begs the question of what is literacy?. Is being able to read and write & surf the gazillions of a foreign language site literacy.

This seems to undermine the multitudes of information that people innately posess by living
where they live. You only have to stroll with a villager by a forest to learn how much they know about their natural enviroment without having
“literacy”.

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