Advice books didn't arrive until the rise of a literate middle class.

Governments have looked at removing it before, but have always been driven off by the outcry from the literate middle classes.

Everywhere that it was read, it aroused the interest of the literate classes in the life of the common folk.

One hundred years ago, as the Agricultural Age was winding down, the ability to merely write your own name put you in the "literate" class.

Danish became the commonly written language among Norway's literate class.

The next generation might be too busy to keep public schools, but had enough hard practical respect for learning that it supported a literate class.

He articulated that most surviving historical sources come from the literate wealthy classes.

Even so, the advantages that accrued to the early literate classes would be clearly evident during the 20th century.

It arose among the new, literate, middle class centered in Colombo.

The literate middle class that emerged, which had never expressed itself on paper before, now had both the time and inclination to do so.