Reading and writing are so natural to most of us that we pretty much take them for granted.
But not everyone gets the same level of education. In order to make a point about how hard life is for those who haven't been taught basic literacy skills (the video states that 3.6 million refugee children are denied an education, for example), the campaign group ONE took a slightly unconventional approach. It hypnotized a variety of men and women from different backgrounds into temporary illiteracy, then woke them up and filmed the results.
Okay, so aside from the "All reactions are genuine and unscripted" disclaimer, we have no way of proving whether or not the people in the clip above actually were hypnotized. They could just be good actors.
Either way, the video makes a powerful point.
At the time of writing, ONE's petition for "Education for All Refugee Children" is on over 170,000 signatures (95% of of their goal).
