"The lack of interest in adult education confirmed the Board's belief that
such courses were unnecessary and that people would learn from
experiencing metric units in practical day to day situations as and when
each individual requires.
"It also confirmed that people do not perceive metric in systematic form
but learn each unit and its application as an independent and unrelated
piece of information. As a consequence the highly logical nature of the
metric system or the unsystematic nature of the imperial system had very
little meaning or relevance for the ordinary system.
**** shouldn't the word "system" after ordinary be "citizen"? It makes more
sense if it is citizen!
Re-education of
ordinary people must therefore concentrate on providing a new set of metric
benchmarks and avoid irrelevant references to the elegance of the metric
system."
John
