How widespread was literacy?

Literacy was pretty wide spread throughout the colonies. Between 50% and 85% of colonial men were considered "literate"

Functional literacy pertains to that which can help an individual function in day to day life. This could mean reading street signs, filling out applications or reading a cookbook. Literacy is a...

Around the 6,7 or 8 on the scale of 1 to 10 but I personally I love Literacy so i would say 8,9 or 10 maybe but that is only my idea and thought on the subject.

If this is a joke, i have no clue, but they teach English at school.

A literate person cannot be expected to know how to operate a computer. In essence, a person can be literate but not computer literate. But the opposite seems difficult to be true. A computer...