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The Uses of Literacy | Richard Hoggart

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"Hoggart has the rare quality ofcomplete intellectual honesty. The Uses of Literacy should beread by all those concerned with the nature of modernsociety." -Asher Tropp,American Sociological Review "This sort of modern Mayhew is worth any amountof statistics as background for cultural evalutions....Required reading for anyone concernedwith the modern cultural climate." -TimesLiterary Supplement

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The Uses of Literacy | Richard Hoggart

We have this concept, culturally, that literacy is what happens when you teach children to read; but if those children grow up to be adults who only use their literacy skills to write T.P.S. Reports or read the instructions on a microwave ready meal then we have still failed them.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/18/100-best-nonfiction-books-uses-lit...

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