Statistics on literacy in the various countries

Dalene and Andy

4 Oct 2002, at 4:44pm

My husband and I discussed the low level of literacy in various countries - UK, USA, and NZ - my theory is that children are pushed too young and become discouraged. He wants to see statistics... hehehe.

I realise this is not unschooling, but off course any kind of learning would be unschooling, so does anyone know about a site that have comparative education statistics of the various countries??

Dalene

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Rachel Ann

4 Oct 2002, at 5:36pm

Try here....
http://www.uis.unesco.org/en/stats/statistics/literacy2000.htm

and here...
There are several different tables and ways of accessing information...here is the table I chose, and I'll also give the front page..
Have fun exploring!
http://www.literacyonline.org/explorer/regsworld.html

http://www.literacyonline.org/explorer/statistics.html

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My husband and I discussed the low level of literacy in various countries - UK, USA, and NZ - my theory is that children are pushed too young and become discouraged. He wants to see statistics... hehehe.

I realise this is not unschooling, but off course any kind of learning would be unschooling, so does anyone know about a site that have comparative education statistics of the various countries??

Dalene

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Tia Leschke

4 Oct 2002, at 11:08pm

> My husband and I discussed the low level of literacy in various

countries - UK, USA, and NZ - my theory is that children are pushed too
young and become discouraged. He wants to see statistics... hehehe.

>
> I realise this is not unschooling, but off course any kind of learning

would be unschooling, so does anyone know about a site that have comparative
education statistics of the various countries??

I don't have those, but Gatto has stated that the US had almost 100%
literacy and more books sold per capita *before* compulsory education. I
don't know where he got those figures from.
Tia

kayb85

5 Oct 2002, at 1:25am

--- In Unschooling-dotcom@y..., "Tia Leschke" <leschke@i...> wrote:

>
>
>
> > My husband and I discussed the low level of literacy in various
> countries - UK, USA, and NZ - my theory is that children are pushed

too

> young and become discouraged. He wants to see statistics... hehehe.
> >
> > I realise this is not unschooling, but off course any kind of

learning

> would be unschooling, so does anyone know about a site that have

comparative

> education statistics of the various countries??
>
> I don't have those, but Gatto has stated that the US had almost 100%
> literacy and more books sold per capita *before* compulsory

education. I

> don't know where he got those figures from.
> Tia

He got them from men e