Outcome 3: Sponsors of literacy challenges the common assumption: that literacy is simply an individual achievement. Brandt's argument proposes the idea that literacy is socially and economically mediated. Brandt states that a person's ability to read and write derives from "Sponsors" someone who enables or restricts the access to literacy materials. This writing enlightens the concept that helps us portray literacy not as a neutral individual skill but rather is imbedded in us from a young age in social, economic, and political systems.