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@Acta Populi

You think this is a hard sell today? You should have tried it when the literacy rate was far less than 1% of the population and the only way most poor people had a chance to being educated enough to read and write was if they participated in a religious sect. Even then they would have to be lucky to be selected.

In modern society it is hard to imagine a time when reading was a novelty of a select class. Though for many thousands of years that was the case. China and southern Asia always did have a greater appreciation for education ( in most eras) than most other regions of Eurasia did though. With a notable exception for Greece and Egypt.

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