What Are The Causes Of Illiteracy?

Illiteracy means not being able to read and write. A person who has not received elementary education is illiterate. Literacy as we all know is essential for the growth and progress of individual as well as society. There are countries where literacy rate is hundred per cent. But most of the developing and under developed countries are struggling to educate the masses the recent survey has indicated that in Pakistan literacy rate is 38.9 per cent, the male and female literacy rate stands at 50 and 27 per cent. This situation is not satisfactory at all.

Pakistan is lagging behind many other countries of the region. There are two kinds of illiterates' illiterate children and illiterate adults. Among the main causes of illiteracy the first is poverty. People living in slums and villages cannot send their children to school while they starve for a morsel. Lack of awareness of the significance of education makes many people disinterested in any such comparing. Lake of educational facilities is also a major factor. In rural areas man schools are without proper building and furniture etc. sometimes school is there but there is no teacher.

Lack of resources on the part government is a major obstruction in the propagation of primary education. Govt. spends less money on education as compared to other developing countries. Some religious people do not allow the education of their children particularly girls except religious education.

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You've asked the causes of illiteracy and that is a very good question indeed. But you must understand that the illiteracy does not have a single cause. It has many causes behind it. I would try to tell some of them.

The one and the more biggest cause of illiteracy is the financial problems, you know if someone does not have the means of sustenance he can never think about any thing but food. It is because after getting food we would be able to read and study. And the people who face financial problems and who live under the line of poverty can not afford their children to study so they send them for work.

Another cause of illiteracy is the geographical factors of some place, like some people live in such a location where a good institute can't be establish. For example there is a place in Pakistan which does not have enough population in it and it is all deserts. So only the old locals live there who are living there since centuries and they don't send there children somewhere else to study.

Similarly the mindset about education also matters most. Some people don't think education as useful and they usually tend to learn some skill for their livelihood. So these are the major causes of illiteracy. Yet there are some other causes as well. But I think this answer is sufficient for you to understand.

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