The inability to read and write is what is called illiteracy; not being able to get a good job that will enable them to take care of their families, those are the illiterates. Spreading rumors and being easily controlled by any radical thinking, those are the illiterates. That’s why any country desiring advancement must begin to eradicate illiteracy. Turkey was a developing country but what pushed it to advance until it reached the global ranking in advanced countries? It was its care for eradicating illiteracy and with education in the early stages, encouragement, and motivation for education. Iraq must follow this country’s footsteps. No country will advance without help from its children.

The definition of illiteracy differs from country to country; in Japan and China an illiterate person is someone who is unable to use the computer for these countries have completely eradicated reading and writing illiteracy after they were able to develop and became among the most developed countries in the world. From this we understand that it is necessary to eradicate illiteracy for any country to develop for how can there be a person unable to read and write even after we passed the twenty first century? The percentage of illiteracy in Iraq is considered somewhat high, so we must work towards eradicating the Iraqi citizens’ illiteracy in order for Iraq to steadily move forward.

Eradicating illiteracy will open two ways of increasing job opportunities in Iraq; the educational movements, which will eradicate illiteracy will be through the graduated youth who can’t find the chance to prove themselves; this way eradicating illiteracy will give the youth a great chance to cover the lack of teachers in order to continue the operation of eradicating illiteracy. As for the second way, the way will be open for the graduates to eradicate illiteracy as their chances of working have increased because they are now literate humans with a license to lead an educated life. They can understand everything that is written and can write what they are dictated, and this is what most work markets require. This way, Iraq will be on the way to drawing a map of development and growth.

The programs for eradicating illiteracy that are being made for the Iraqi people will definitely have a positive effect on solving the familial and social problems in a more cultural and civilized manner because of what the illiterate Iraqis will learn when their illiteracy is eradicated and they become cultured and educated. Also, awareness regarding health problems and bad nutrition will rise as the Iraqis will be able to read what is written on the canned nutrition and medicine, they will avoid stuff that lead to the spread of sickness and diseases, and using the wrong treatment at critical times. Education and eradicating illiteracy will lead to the increase of the basic skills of the Iraqi citizens, such as confidence and self respect, in addition to getting rid of the fear of change, and learning new skills that will benefit all citizens. This will also contribute to boosting democracy as the gap of education between the illiterate and the educated will be closed through eradicating illiteracy for the Iraqis. As for the Iraqi parents, eradicating illiteracy will bring them utmost respect from society and their children.

Illiteracy is now inherited in Iraq because of despotism and wars, but now it is time to develop education and erase the illiteracy of the elders even before that of the youngsters.

Illiteracy in Iraq must be faced head on in order to create a new generation that will be participating in developing its country and for the Iraqi people’s civilization to grow for there is no civilization and no advancement without science. That’s why science represents the cornerstone of development, so Iraq must care for scientific development and keep houses of knowledge safe for the young knowledge seekers, not to ignore eradicating illiteracy from the adults, so they could be the tool and fertile soil for bringing out their own flesh and wombs; people who know the importance of science, and for deleting the page of ignorance, and killing culture inside the Iraqi families, as the ground is now set for the Iraqis to start eradicating illiteracy after the end of tyranny, freedom suppression and getting rid of the American invasion. It is now the time for working and developing education for all.

The head of any Iraqi family who is not able to read and write makes his family more prone to suffer from the lack of water and sanitation, food, property and electricity unlike families headed by educated individuals. The families headed by illiterate mothers suffer from higher rates of diseases than the families where mothers are able to read and write. The effects of literacy also touch the community involvement and citizenship behaviors. The young Iraqis who do not know how to read and write feel that their voice is not heard in the social and political institutions. Therefore it is important to eradicate illiteracy from Iraq.

Illiteracy, and the ignorance accompanying it, is the most important reason that causes societies to decline, and their low cognitive and cultural levels that contribute to a great extent to the deterioration of communities, especially after the high rate of illiteracy in recent years in our communities. Launching programs to work on literacy is one of the most important programs that will contribute to the eradication of illiteracy and absorb a lot of illiterates in this campaign, which will improve the skills of those who cannot read and write, and create real suffering to these groups that are in dire need to launch a literacy campaign in Iraq; this campaign will work on the development of the Iraqi society and in reducing this phenomenon.

Eradication of illiteracy is very important as studies have shown that an illiterate person is a weak link in the chain of development and the eradication of illiteracy is no longer just a matter of interest to teachers and education ministers only, but it concerns the ministers of agriculture and industry, state officials, and the citizens who are responsible for planning the economic and social development in their countries. Illiteracy exists everywhere and it has become one of the problems of the day, but at the same time many countries have started literacy programs as they have spread with great force and expressed great success in many countries. Therefore, Iraq must begin those programs and allocate a specific budget to finance this purposeful project, encourage applicants to these centers, provide places dedicated to teaching consistent with the ages of applicants, each according to his own age, provide specialized teachers whose age is close to the learner's age in order that understanding and comprehension will prevail among them, and they must use modern methods of teaching and advanced programs to introduce the largest ratio of information to them. The governments must begin providing these centers very soon.

Iraq will reach the highest ranks and places if they focus largely on science because science is the strongest in our current times.

The spread of illiteracy is a strong factor in the backwardness of Iraq. Therefore, the country should provide literacy centers for the people.

Knowledge is the only way we can make progress and Iraq can depend on it to solve many of its problems especially the unemployment and backwardness.

Fighting illiteracy is one of the basic projects of the Iraqi Government, which raises a learned and capable generation that can face the challenges of the society and development, and work on the projects of the State in the agricultural and industrial field, or any other field. I also think that illiteracy is divided into two divisions, the illiteracy of thought and illiteracy of science and writing. I think that the cultural illiteracy is much worse than the illiteracy of writing and reading because it can direct them to some negative aspects even if they are able to read and write as well as hold the highest certificates in the world. The illiteracy of thought must take precedence over the other types because it is more dangerous.

Ignorance is the main cause for the destruction of nations, therefore, many countries, including Iraq, resort to educational programs according to specific criteria in order to eliminate illiteracy which is widespread among a lot of people. It is concentrated in the poor social class that needs a lot of attention from the officials. Furthermore, the elimination of ignorance can cause a lot of pros that can be very useful for the development of Iraq. Iraq can make progress in many areas and it is not just that, but it can excel also in those areas and can advance like all other states. It can prove itself that knowledge is light and ignorance is darkness, and that this statement is very true because science illuminates our world and makes us search for appropriate solutions to all the problems that can confront us in all sectors.

Knowledge is light and prosperity and it is a general means to exchange cultures and civilizations. Knowledge was mentioned in all religions and it is a legitimate right for all people.

There is no doubt that Iraq like other developing countries is trying to reach an important position among the brotherly and developed countries. Thus, it gives importance to different tasks, such as fighting against unemployment and establishing communities. Eradicating illiteracy is also an important task that should not be forgotten by any Government because human resources of the State are the successful investment. It must educate them, eradicate illiteracy and promote their culture and develop their minds through awareness campaigns which present the crucial role of education and study. It must also highlight the importance of developing schools and universities. We will always stand behind the people who have no idea about education and literacy’s benefits. We will try to convince them in order to promote their lives and standards of living. Nations cannot fight the enemy if its citizens are illiterate. Thus, they will be exposed to all extremism’s and terrorism’s ideas. They will be exploited to achieve the colonizer’s interests.

Fighting illiteracy in Iraq has got a lot of positive results which the country currently lacks in these difficult circumstances.

It is important to fight illiteracy in Iraq. This is in order to keep pace with the world’s development in all fields.

We should put an end to the overspreading illiteracy in Iraq by all means. The competent authorities should assess the situation and find the appropriate solutions. We need to overcome this scourge through educating the people.

The Iraqi Government must work on spreading culture and fighting illiteracy which is still affecting some Iraqis. Thus, we have to eradicate it by all the possible means and find simple and appropriate solutions for people’s age so that they will accept them.

We should put an end to the overspreading illiteracy in Iraq by all means. The competent authorities should assess the situation and find the appropriate solutions. We need to overcome this scourge through educating the people.

The Iraqi government must work on spreading culture and fighting illiteracy which is still affecting some Iraqis. Thus, we have to eradicate it by all the possible means and find simple and appropriate solutions for people according to their age so that they will accept them.

Cultural activities play an important role in the lives of individuals, especially in the lives of children as they work to develop talents and abilities since childhood and as they say, education in childhood is as the inscription on the stone, and ministries of education should qualify teachers to become experienced in how to exploit the activities for the development of the minds of the students. We are not talking here about sports activities or drama only, but also educational activities where we train our children in the language of dialogue and quiet voice during the debate, even if the views are different, and acceptance of the other, and not to talk until the other one who started ends his speech. We learned to accept defeat with good spirit without the hassle and enmity. During the young age, our hearts are at their purest and this helps a lot in accepting things later on as they become a feature of the character. Also, these activities help improve their taste and talent in all fields as well as joining the student and the teacher. This helps in the learning process so it is similar to circles connected to each other starting from basic education to practicing cultural activities. Each part in this system qualifies for the other part, therefore, the specialists should know that the very beginning in education is the most important beginnings in a person's life. They must care for every small and big detail presented to him, and they will learn how these activities can be used to increase awareness of the student to come out to the community as a positive individual.

What should we reform first in order to eradicate terrorism, unemployment, religious extremism, sexual harassment, drug addiction, begging, backwardness and disease outbreaks? Should we start with the media, the press, the freedom of opinion or the online culture? All of these scourges lead to terrorism. We are in a total dilemma. For this reason, we believe that there is a close link between culture and the development of peoples. Indeed, there is also a link between the freedoms of opinion and expression on the one hand and the development of nations. We realize the importance of education, above all. The educational institutions are the major factor in enlightening peoples and taking them from ignorance and loss to development. Indeed, the development of education enables the peoples to keep pace with the new requirements. For this reason, we must eradicate illiteracy and make educational subjects meet the needs of the State. Besides, we should invest the energy of the youth to develop the community. For example, the authorities could hire the young people in hygiene jobs, mills, bakeries and road traffic control. In so doing, the authorities would be able to count on the young people in the future programs that will employ them. The latter could do those jobs in academic holidays in order to do something wholesome in their leisure time. Such activities would create an autonomous community. Undoubtedly, the media could play a leading role in guiding and educating the young people through the spots that urge us to work and to learn religious and cultural programs. Those shows should clarify the real Islamic thought. They have to raise awareness of Muslims about the dangers of religious and moral extremism which caused the suffering of the Iraqi people.