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Download full textLockridge, Kenneth A. – 1979
By the early nineteenth century, religion and social necessity had driven literacy in western Europe and in the United States from an overall level below 20% to about 50% of all men in a little more than two centuries; women had benefited as well. In the middle of the nineteenth century, the state entered the business of education on a large…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Daily Living Skills, Educational History, European History
