It’s interesting for me to consider who my literary sponsors are and were. I don’t often think about who is responsible for allowing me to end up where I am now. Before reading this article, I hadn’t much at all considered giving a significant amount of credit for my literacy education. The author however, makes a very compelling point about the extent to which personal circumstances contribute the type and degree of one’s literacy.
The obvious choice would be to claim that my main sponsor was the education that I got in public school up until this point. The entire point of public education is to promote literacy, and my skills were definitely developed and improved through my schooling. However, we discussed in class that literacy can come in many forms my other than the stereotypical reading and writing. Given that my current focus in life is engineering, I would contend that the technical literacy that I gained has had a significant impact on my being where I am now. This, I would have to attribute to my parents, my dad especially who is an also and engineer.
While my sponsors were great and I was allowed to develop a high degree of literacy, which is not always the case. As the article talked about, literacy and the access to sufficient education is still used a means of social segregation. While education continues to improve and make available literary sponsors for people across the country and the world, there is still a lot of discrepancy. While my experience hasn’t been perfect, I’ve been afforded all the access to literacies that I’ve needed and more. Examining this topic really makes me appreciate that.
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