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of teaching their children financial literacy and having them go through the process of learning procurement,
financial literacy and having them go through the process
10-second trivia: Which of these nations is estimated to have the highest literacy rate?
The US Central Intelligence Agency estimates that Slovenia has the highest literacy rate on this list, at 99.7%.
Next, we have ignoring financial literacy.
It might just be excusable not to invest in our financial literacy in our early twenties.
It's like media literacy in a wearable form factor.
And that's had a huge impact because the alphabet made it much easier to learn how to read and write and made mass literacy possible.
We're in a country with very low levels of literacy, and it deliberately invested in education to make itself a high-skills, high-income country.
You know, if you imagine trying to navigate a modern world with basic literacy skills, trying to navigate a digital world increasingly, no matter where you are, and that's kind of implications for your own wealth, your own family's wealth, also your health, your chances of being caught up in conflicts, being influenced by extremism and all kinds of bad things, criminality.
But first, I have a question for you, Phil. I mentioned a recent UN report on the high numbers of people unable to read and write. But illiteracy is not a new problem. Since 1967, the UN has been highlighting the importance of literacy – being able to read and write – with a day of celebration called International Literacy Day. But when does it take place?
I think International Literacy Day is on the 8th of September.
Scientific literacy, and the ability to think and communicate like a scientist, is more important now than ever before.
It ends up with, I think, if not the, but out of the ballpark rates of improved literacy on the back of literally improving children's eyesight.
I need you to help me with my egg literacy.