Editing Functional illiteracy (section)

==UNESCO definition==
Illiteracy, as well as functional illiteracy, were defined on the 20th session of UNESCO in 1978 as follows:

{{quotation | A person is illiterate who cannot with understanding both read and write a short simple statement on his everyday life.

A person is functionally illiterate who cannot engage in all those activities in which literacy is required for effective functioning of his group and community and also for enabling him to continue to use reading, writing and calculation for his own and the community’s development.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0011/001140/114032E.pdf|title=Records of the 20th General Conference of UNESCO: Resolutions|year=1978|page=18}}</ref>
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