Imagine for a minute that one day you wake up from a night's sleep and find nothing as it was, you don't know where you are, the people around you, or any aspect of your life life you were so sure of the night before. Imagine the feeling of confusion and uncertainty that such a situation would cause. This chaos is not far from what millions of illiterates experience on a daily basis. The term "illiteracy" applies to more than just the inability to read or write. There is also "functional illiteracy". Functionally illiterate people can read words but cannot understand their meaning, synthesize information, or make decisions based on what they read. Illiteracy could also be defined as restriction or confinement for the simple fact that this is the kind of life that many non-readers lead. Illiterates' choices are limited in almost every aspect of their lives, from where they travel, to what they eat, to how knowledgeable they are. Kozol mentions in his story The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society, on p. 2"Illiterates cannot read the menu while resting...