literacy- education

The key difference between education and literacy is that the literacy basically refers to the ability to read and write whereas the education refers to the acquisition of knowledge.

While literacy is a key factor that helps to measure the education level in a country, these two terms are not interchangeable. Thus, although most people consider being literate and being educated as the same, there is a distinct difference between them.=

Education is the acquisition of knowledge through a process of receiving or giving systematic instruction.===

According to the UNESCO definition, literacy is the “ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts”.