KiJohn wrote in USMA 8707: >"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 >llittle 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." Yes, definitely. I am a poor copy typist.
