Your don’t get a scroll for individual worth

WILLIAM EVERS (Irish Examiner letters, August 26) unfortunately missed the point in my response to his original letter of August 19 in which he insensitively exclaimed that a person who can’t read or write isn’t worth anything.

Your don’t get a scroll for individual worth

I would argue that a young man making rudimentary tools in New Guinea is as valuable on this earth as a Harvard scholar - as is the Irish farmer or the fisherman who never learned to read because he needed to work when times were hard for his family.

Mr Evers equated his daughter’s difficulty with the meaning of some words to a weaker education system.

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