From: Ellen K. 

I disagree.  McDonalds can have cash registers with pictures of menu items
so that they can hire illiterate and innumerate cashiers, but those folks
still have to be able to read a bus schedule and prescription instructions
as one of the other posts mentioned.

BTW I am HORRIFIED at the level of English in a lot of the business
correspondence I see.

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:28:29 -0500, "Mark"
 wrote in message :

>
>"Phil Payne" 
wrote in message
>news:43a24b30{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>> news:43a1f450{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> An ex coach of the Detroit Red Wings ( Jacques Demers) just revealed he
>> was
>>> illiterate
>>>
>>> "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who
cannot read and
>>> write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
Alvin Toffler
>>
>> What's wrong with that?
>>
>> Occupational lifetimes have been shrinking below personal lifetimes for
>> over
>> a century.
>
>I'm pretty sure that Rich's point was not that there was something wrong
>with that; rather that illiteracy is irrelevant. necessarily, but if a kid/illiterate can manipulate icons instead of
>alphanumeric symbols in such a way as to communicate/earn effectively,
>literacy may not matter>
>

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