Literacy has very little to do with university degrees!

Anytime the subject of illiteracy is opened, people get defensive and assume you are talking about university degrees! Yes, in the UK, we have erroneously made it all about university education and those with university degrees are assumed to be the ones capable of leadership and high positions of office. I am not saying this because I do not have a university degree, I do. But the reality is that there are many people out there without a university education, who are extremely well-educated; be it through their journey through life, travel, work experience and other forms of training etc. These are people who have opened up their minds to be educated and are highly educated but without a university degree

Yes, it is perhaps easy to assume that someone who has made it as far as to complete a university degree is unlikely to be an illiterate, but the same applies to those who have been trained through travel, work experience etc. An uneducated person is quite simply put, someone who has not had the benefit of robust training or indeed, education.

The world is being slowly take over by gullibility! Is it traceable to the sudden decline in literacy? Absolutely. If you looks at a large proportion of groups who believe that Covid was never real and was just made up or that school shootings in America are just fiction, you will find a broad base of poorly educated folk who are barely literate. Along with a few education puppet-masters who are manipulating then for political gain, money or whatever else

We are in perilous times!!!