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Month: August 2018

Literacy Proficiency and a Free Press Equals Healthy, Successful Societies – A Comparison, Then and Now

August 13, 2018

By Renee Lyons

Tis to ye Press & Pen we Morals owe All we believe & almost all we know. The short poem above is attributed to George Fisher’s 1748 book, The Instructor; or, American Young Man’s Best Companion. Perhaps high literacy levels, or the press and the pen, contributed to a successful American Revolution as well. For, as … Continued

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