NorbertRadd
Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 148 Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong
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Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 11:37 am Post subject: illiteracy |
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http://www.audiblox2000.com/learning_disabilities/illiteracy.htm
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A survey of Australian adult literacy, reported in The Australian in 1990, found that 70 percent of a representative group of adults could not deal with concepts or arguments at the level of a standard newspaper editorial.18
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I read once that 3 out of 5 Americans don't read and that only 1 of 3 that can read has read a book.
It seems that if Chinese are reading US literature to understand Western thinking, they're missing the target and they'd be better off listening to hip-hop. |
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