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Article: ILLITERACY A ROADBLOCK TO INFORMATION HIGHWAY.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- January 3, 1994
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Byline: JEFF KUNERTH - Orlando Sentinel
For J.C. Wilson, 51, the nation skipped directly from the Agrarian Age to the Information Age without bothering to take him along.
Wilson, the son of an Arkansas farmer, never attended school. Neither his mother nor his father were literate, and they saw no reason why he should be either.
"If I did go to school, I don't remember it," said Wilson, who worked as a diesel mechanic before becoming an Orlando, Fla., landscaper.
If you can't read, you work harder. The simplest of tasks, like going somewhere without being able to read a map or a street sign, requires extraordinary ingenuity.
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