The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Agree or Disagree?

The definition of illiteracy is not limited to those who can’t do mathematical permutations or express certain linguistic features, it involves those who can’t replace previously learnt less effective data in their minds with new and rapidly evolving information; I consummately in accord with the above statement.
The perception of education has changed significantly in the past few decades, it requires necessary skills and complex intellectual abilities to make appropriate decisions and work efficiently in work environment as so many inventions and discoveries are occurring and one needs to acquire those quickly and move forward with the world otherwise he will be considered as illiterate in near future.

The process of ‘unlearn’ and ‘re-learn’ describes the need of acquisition of recent knowledge and eliminating previous one, for instance, we have learnt in our school that electron is the smallest particle but with discovery of proton and neutron, the previous theory failed, and recently I have read that researchers even found some other smallest particles even.

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