sure I do, I've done it many times, including teens in the juvenile detention system.
first of all you have something for him to read...a paper....a book....something
second, you convince him that there is a reason to know how to read....future doccuments, parole papers, library books, history books, geography books, newsparers, magazines, playboy....whatever...
the people in B.C. europe, asia, africa etc had none of these...nothing to teach from and no particular reason for the average person to learn to read...Why is the question...the teacher has a document, or even a book...there is not another one aaround for miles, you are a shepherd......why do you need to know how to read that one paper?????????????
Israel was much more involved in trade than just sheep herders. There were several cheap and available methods to write by. Waxed wood, silver or copper plates and using iron or flint to inscribe, paper made from papyrus reed, and even animal hides. Walls and plaster was another common place writings were placed upon. There was the cheap stones as well.
There was also besides a common ability to read and write was the Scribes the professional writers of legal writs etc. Hebrew existed as a written language 1400 BC. My source on this? The Revell Bible Dictionary under the heading of writing. Just because there were professional Scribes doesn't mean common man could not read or write.
Who invented writing when there was no paper?
Who invented writing when there was no readers?
Which then leads to two blindingly obvious questions.
How did they write what they did?
Why did they bother to write what they did?
If they didn't have anything to write on or with, how did they write what they wrote?
And if nobody could read or write, who wrote them and why did they if they weren't going to be read?
Honestly, does Catholicism have to teach that level of illogical thinking that is displayed on this board by Catholics?
Just FYI: *Jewish* history records that Shem, son of Noah, actually had a school where he taught God’s will for man as revealed to Noah. Shem’s grandson Eber also taught there, and his followers became generally known by a cognate of his name: Hebrews.
Shem was the “Righteous King of Salem” to whom Abraham offered tithes.
No serious learning is done by text alone. Does someone who just reads medical texts without apprenticeship qualify as a physician?