The Rotary Club speaker today was from Reading Connections. What caught my attention was a quote from Robin Britt, that “From zero to eight, we learn how to read, and from eight on we read to learn.” According to the U.S. Department of Education, an incredible 14% of Americans – a whopping one out of 7 and a total of 32 million adults – are illiterate in this country. To identify with that is like, the speaker said, think about your travels to an Asian or Arabic country where you can’t read the signs, the menu or labels. Pretty humbling … and disorienting.
