> -----Original Message----- > From: William L. Thomson Jr. [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:33 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [OT] Usefulness of Twitter > > > I would also hardly classify Egypt as an uneducated third-world > > country, where the percentage of graduates for 15-29 year olds is > > comparable to that of the United States. > > Might want to check your facts. Literacy rate in Egypt is between 58%[1]- > 67%[2] of adult population. Now lets talking owning a computer or cell > phone. You think electricity is every where there[3]? I surely would not > compared Egypt to the US by any means. >
Nothing was said about the literacy rate. Their 15-29 year olds are graduating from a secondary educational institution at about the same rate that are graduating here in the United States. But since you mention literacy rate, you'll find that right here at home in Northwest Jacksonville the literacy rate to be not that far off of what you found in Egypt's population as a whole. As hard it may be to believe, there actually is a world outside of the U.S. border (bubble) that is not as dumb as we may want them to be. Egypt was educating their people long long long before the U.S. even existed. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
