COMPARATIVE ILLITERACY.
Only three persons out of 10,000 in Germany are unable to read or. write, while the proportion of illiteracy in Great Britain is 150 per 10,000 as against 770 per 10,000 in the United States. These figures , are based on a comparison of illiteracy among some of the leading nations which has just been made and issued by the United StaLes Bureau of Education. The American figures include the entire population over 10 years of age, while the German figures cover only the army recruits, and the British statistics are. based on data drawn wholly from official marriage registers. _ Hence the German- and British statistics deal only with adults, and generally speaking with physically arid mentally normal adults, while the United States census includes without discrimination everyone above the 10-year-age limit, even coloured folk.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15122, 12 October 1912, Page 5 (Supplement)
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136COMPARATIVE ILLITERACY. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15122, 12 October 1912, Page 5 (Supplement)
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