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Quoting david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>:


> But if Berman 
> is right, the collaspe of intelligence in America is "unambiguously bleak". 
> He assures the reader that his statistics are were not invented even though 
> they're hard to believe and even harder to accept. For example, 120 million 
> Americans can read no better than a 5th with many of them unable to read at 
> all. The number of people who are genuinely literate, people who regularly 
> read serious books, may be as low as 3%. 60% have never read a book of any 
> kind. 42% could not locate Japan on a map and 35% of Americans couldn't even 
> find the USA on a map. Only 2% of American teens can name the Chief Justice 
> and only 4% could read a bus schedule. The National Science Foundation did a 
> survey to measure the scientific literacy of American adults. 56% thought an 
> electron was bigger than an atom and 91% could not say what a molecule was. 
> 63% thought early humans lived with dinosaurs, but hey, they were only wrong 
> by about 60 million years. 53% didn't even understand that it takes a year 
> for earth to orbit the sun. And only 6% of American adults reads as much as 
> one book per year, and that includes any crappy old book.

Given the above statistics one need not look any further for a greater indictment
of the failure of the government monopoly of our public schools and the selfish
grip of the teachers' unions on the educational system.


 


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