Emotion versus Facts in “The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society”

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English

 

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Michael H

 

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September 2, 2012

 

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They cannot read this label therefore they are putting themselves at risk of poisoning, skin damage and blindness. This is only the first example of him using the tactic of provoking an emotional response rather than looking plainly at the facts. The next thing Kozol does to make clear the cost of the illiterate society is to quote James Madison, “A People who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives...
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.” Kozol states that illiterate citizens vote rarely, and when they do happen to vote, their vote is somehow less because of the simple fact that they cannot read, putting forth the idea that illiterate voters “vote for a face, a smile, or a style, not for a mind or character or body of beliefs...
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