the oral tradition predominates where written literacy is not instrumental as a survival skill.
Rose's account of his secondary education in the American parochial school system highlights the role of social class in literacy issues and the role of literacy in shaping the whole of individual experience. As a child, Rose was tracked into vocational instead of academic education owing to a clerical error that mixed his high achievement-test scores with the lower scores of another student named Rose. An important consequence was to delay development of his acquaintance with or critical-thinking skills in re
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