When a person can read and write his name, small sentences, phrases, etc and can make simple mathematical calculations, he/she is referred to as a literate person. An educated person is somebody who has attended and completed schooling and college education. An intelligent person is a brilliant person.
What could be the difference between the three?
A literate person as mentioned above can read and write whereas an educated person is one step higher than literate wherein they would have gone through some basic and higher education. An intelligent person is, even more, higher than the other two, a smart person.
Literate: In order to assess the development of a state or a country, the literacy rate is an ideal tool. An increase in the literacy rate shows that there is development in that particular society. In India, if a person above the age of seven and above knows to read and write in any language, he/she is called a literate person. If a person cannot read and write, he/she is an illiterate person. A survey done in 2011 showed a 9% increase in the literacy rate in India. It has gone up from 65.38% (2001) to 74.04%. The male literacy rate is 82.14% and the female rate is 65.46%. Kerala was the topper of having the highest literacy rate of 93.9%, but now Tripura has out beaten it with a percentage of 94.65%.
Why should a person be literate? What if he/she is illiterate? Does that affect the society? If a person does not know how to calculate simple mathematical calculations, he/she could be cheated in whatever business or work they are into. Since they do not know how to read and write, for example, there could be abduction of their wealth if they apply for a loan due to miscreants around us. So a person being literate is a must for not only the society but also for their own self and family.
Does that affect their health? Yes. It does. A low literacy rate is directly proportionate to poorer health and infant mortality due to lack of medical knowledge and awareness. Especially, if the women are made aware of family planning and basic hygiene, we can control the population and the mortality rate of the existing population could be controlled too.
Educated: Every educated person is a literate but every literate is not an educated person. Being educated is just not that they have undergone school or college education, an educated person will have the basic manners and mentality of a learned person with good personality. Education makes a person complete and knowledgeable. Once educated, he/she can get into a good job and earn well, so that could eradicate poverty of that entire family and lead to the upliftment of the society. One educated person can make thousands and thousands of people literate and that could bring in an entire generational change in that particular area.
Intelligent: A person need not be literate or educated to be an intelligent person, but education enhances the intelligence. An intelligent person can fair well either academically or practically. This group of people will excel in studies and will have a high intelligent quotient (IQ).
An intelligent person could have mastered in any one field or many. They could bring in name and fame to the family as well as to the nation.
There are many examples of intelligent people who brought fame to our country especially Viswanathan Anand, who is the chess grandmaster. How intelligent he should be to have won so many awards and has made our country proud. Another classic example is that of Sachin Tendulkar who is a high school dropout, but his intelligence and smartness towards cricket has made him successful in his career as the most famous and popular cricket player.
Thus we can conclude that it is our moral responsibility as the citizen of our country to make everybody educated, if not at least make them literate to make a better India.
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