Seeking advice

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Deskisamess

Many of the articles I came across on adult literacy strongly tie literacy to having a college degree. Which imho will give you skewed numbers.

I've never been to college, and married at 18. I've read at an 8th grade level when I was in second grade. I don't believe I'm that unusual.

I read at a level higher then my age when I was in grade school. I liked to read at an early age and it showed. I didn't have to to college to learn to read past an 8th grade level.

I think whoever said that about college and reading is full of garbage,

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I read at a level higher then my age when I was in grade school. I liked to read at an early age and it showed. I didn't have to to college to learn to read past an 8th grade level.

I think whoever said that about college and reading is full of garbage,

John, on the average, someone who has some college education reads at a higher level. The key word there is being average.

I've known quite a few people whose formal education ended with their high school days who read voraciously at a high level and others who have their baccalaureate or higher and seldom read anything for pleasure and that reading material is pretty low level. Their work related reading is—likely—at a higher level.

One horrible example is a couple who are accountants. If not for their children, they would not have more than 2 or 3 books in their home. I have difficulty believing that Franklin, the Berenstain Bears and similar books are evidence of a high reading level.

[TheNerd180]

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