what is difference between literacy and education?

Well, in English, they really have to separate meanings, though more and more often they get used as the same thing. I'll try to explain the best that I can.

If a person is educated it means that they have attended school. I think that's the simplest way to explain it. It means they've attended classes and now have a degree or certificate or something to prove it. It can also mean that they show certain signs of culture and learning. This is oftentimes used in comparison to "uneducated" people, which is sometimes used as an insult when people think they are less cultured than others.

To be literate has several meanings. First, it means being able to read and write. Second, it means possessing knowledge, either through education or about a specific field (ie. computer literate).

So, they are more or less the same thing, but slightly different. Not enough different, though, where you would get badgered for using one over the other, in most situations.

I think, literate means a person who knows how to read and write. However, the meaning of education is more than that. An educated person is not only able to read and write, he is well cultured, well civilized, well behaved and inculcates high values and morals in his or her life.

Good day, antony2best

When you say literate, that person is able to read or write. I'm not sure if that included comprehension and thinking but, when you say that a person is educated, well, aside from being able to read and write, that person is also possessing education (especially having more than average knowledge).

Actually there's not much difference between them.. BOth of them can be used to praise ple for being well educated.. However, most ple dun really use the word, literacy because of its opposite 'illiterate'.. haha=D

Or should i say, being literate means they know more words as compared to knowing more knowledge about things?? There are ple whom are literate, but they do not know alot of things.. And the same goes well educated ple too, they might have alot of knowledge, but they dunno alot of words.. haha=D

Literate means you understand reading and writing...education means you have learned many facts....to top it all off should be wisdom....finding facts and discerning which ones are useful and which ones aren't...and then using it all to make things better!

hi,as far as i know education is a part of literacy,like we can say education makes a man literate.hope i am right.

Literacy means the ability to be able to read. You can have an education and still be illiterate. Some people are really good at faking, that they can get through school without knowing how to read. Actually, I had a friend who finished school, but could not read.

I think literacy is autodidact, that is, learning because he likes it, and educated is a person who has learned to do a job

Literacy is what the person knows..his knowledge...Education is what you get to acquire literacy. That is what my description on this. They are words linked together with different meaning.

hello antony
education is the knowledge of one person, while literature is the knowledge of the nation.
not every educated person is literate
have a great time ... and it's really a nice discussion