Why can't some people read?

Answer 1

Some people had such a lousy home life as children that even the best of schools couldn't get past that.

Some have learning disorders, like dislexia.

Some simply didn't have the reason ever given to them to learn to read, or often to learn much of anything academic.

Some, simply didn't have a mom like mine, who read to me when I was a baby, giving me the desire to learn, such that I taught myself at the age of 4. (as did my son. I tried to give him the same advantages my mom gave me. Think it's working. He's in his room right now, almost 11:00, unable to put down the 6th Harry Potter book, second time.)

Answer 2

For many people over the world, literacy education is simply not available.

In the US, many of the public schools are under-funded; this happens mainly when schools are in poverty stricken neighborhoods, because the government cares little about the children of low-end tax-payers. So children are allowed to progress through the grades, and often make it well into high school, without being able to read. So these kids have no way of getting any kind of decently paying job without such a basic skill as literacy, and they generally stay in that neighborhood and have to raise their kids in that same school system, and the vicious cycle continues.

According to the last report taken by the United Nations Development Programme, the US ranked in at #21 in world literacy rates. Among the countries outranking us are Cuba, Ukraine, and Armenia.

Answer 3

Besides the reasons given above, there's the learning disability dyslexia. And there's the fact that many children who could benefit from another year in first grade are passed on to a grade that they're not ready for and where they won't be taught the basics of reading, but will fall farther and farther behind. This practice often causes students to graduate from high school still barely able to read.

Answer 4

I believe it was Mark Twain who said:

People who can read but don't have no material advantage over people who can't.

I simply cannot understand literate people who say they don't like to read. Most of these people are not idiots by any stretch of the definition. Hell, many of them are very gifted technological wizards. But the written word bores them to tears.

I can understand why people do not like certain types of literature, I'm no fan of the romance genre myself, but surely some type of literature should appeal to them. I don't know whether to pity those people or give them a good swift kick in the fanny.

As Emily Dickinson so eloquently put it:

There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!

I believe that if I were deprived ot the ability to read, I'd just as soon climb into my coffin and be buried as to be forever trapped in a boring world without the ability to visit far away places and times from the comfort of my chair.

Doc

Answer 5

Inadequate resources, learning conditions, disorders, things of that nature. They (my doctors as I was growing up) told my parents that I'd be slow at learning anything due to my disability, but I read better than I can do math and such, so it's all Dependant on how the brain is wired for learning.

Answer 6

possibly because they live in a country that is too poor to provide a comparable education to the one that many people receive in the US (i'm not saying that ours is the best, i am just using an example that you may be able to relate to) or because of personal or home issues. basically i would imagine that most people that can't read it is not because they chose not to learn or because they never wanted to read.

Answer 7

that's as individual as the person.

some people could have vision problems that are unresolved, some could have a learning disability, some may have had to drop out of school because of abuse or to take care of the family, some may have been bullied into not being academic. some may have a form of mental illness.

Answer 8

Alot of people have a disorder of learning,reading,and counting,it is called Dyslexia,it is soo hard to read if you have Dyslexia.Also it could be because they don't concentrate or leaned when they grew up,(illiterate).

Answer 9

because they never learned

Answer 10

coz they jus dont concentrate on books............dear ...i jus can spent 24x7 for reading........m jus mad for books........happy reading