The result of literate population is not only people can read, to utilize tools effectively, to go through their environment.

一个有文化素养人,不仅可以阅读，可以有效使用工具，适应生存的环境。

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Zealous missionaries have produced a highly literate population in Meghalaya that has happily adopted leather jackets and MTV.

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Only 4.7% of the total literate population has cleared intermediate but not bachelor's and just 4.3% have a bachelor's or above.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

With an expanding and increasingly literate population throughout Europe, the arts became commercialised, the author and the composer selling their productions through the publisher and the impresario.

ECONOMIST: European political history