A recent official national survey announced today reports that one in four adults in England cannot calculate simple financial transactions -- such as working out the change required from buying a typical article in a shop when tendering a banknote or a large denomination coin. In one question, one in four couldn't calculate, however approximately, what "33% off" meant when shopping.
One in five cannot find the plumber in the Yellow Pages. We have now had 130 years of enforced State education in England. Keith Hudson (a follower of what Charles Pierce called the Belief built on Tenacity) __________________________________________________________ �Writers used to write because they had something to say; now they write in order to discover if they have something to say.� John D. Barrow _________________________________________________ Keith Hudson, Bath, England; e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________
