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.

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