"Literacy looms as one of the great engines of profit and competitive advantage in the 20th century: a lubricant for consumer desire; a means for integrating corporate markets; a foundation for the deployment of weapons and other technology; a raw material in mass production of information."
-This is saying that literacy is a big part of our lives in a number of ways. Without literacy we would not be able to do anything. It is a way of communicating and bringing people together for different reasons. Literacy is like the backbone of our society and everything we do. The last sentence is saying that information can not be spread without it. It is essentially the key ingredient to the recipe of information.
"Intuitively, sponsors seemed a fitting term for the figures who turned up most typically in people's memories of literacy learning: old relatives, teachers, priests, supervisors, military officers, editors, influential authors."
-In this quote, Brandt is describing the way we look at how our literacy history is affected. A sponsor can mean many different things, the most general way to look at it is the way a sponsor helps us and supports us. This relates back to this statement and our literacy because the people who affected our literacy when we were younger can be considered our "literary sponsor".
"A focus on sponsorship can force a more explicit and substantive link between literacy learning and systems of opportunity and access."
-The point this statement is trying to make is that when you look at your literacy sponsor, you can see a connection between them and your opportunity at literacy. If you have a number of good supportive sponsors, then you have a good opportunity at literacy. However, if there is no on to support you literacy, you will not have the same access to it as others.
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