The Blessings Of A Multicultural Society

[lictor616]

"22% of the UK population evaluated as illiterate"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/392439.stm

Items before me in the press neatly straddle that Island (that was once the cynosure of the Western World).

Apparently, the UK, despite massive expenditures in education and all sorts of socialistic "experts" doing their wrecking job to the education system for decades now, have one of the most pathetic literacy rates in the world - in fact it is quickly sinking to american standards (!) .

Few perceived the consequences, and in the minds of the planners, the purpose, of hauling British children around to get them away from the influence of their parents, herd them into masses in which they would associate with the dregs of mankind, subject them to "social workers" and "Councillors"... experts in breaking the human personality and making psychiatric cases out of normal children, and replace the rudiments of education and literacy with stinking hogwash about "social science" and "the equality of mankind" that would induce proletarian squalor.

Even when shysters like Tony boy: at the 1996 Labour Party conference, stated that his three top priorities on coming to office were "education, education, and education" began to talk openly of "building a new social order," and the boob-hatcheries were known to inject into the minds of their young victims the leftists' "One World" pus, bovine Britons blinked uncomprehendingly and took pride in how much they were being taxed for new school buildings.

And now they can rejoice at the marvels of a liberal education system (which usually focuses more on how to make politically correct lemmings out of every child then "education" in the proper sense)...

I've said this before about the UK, I commented on one of the most terrible tragedies of all recorded history, the ghastly process that, in less than a century, reduced the British, a great nation and rulers of an empire on which the sun never set, to a herd of frightened sheep, huddled together on a little island on which the sun will soon set for the last time.

684 mosques and counting...

goodbye and goodluck...

Edited August 1, 2009 by lictor616

[CANADIEN]

"22% of the UK population evaluated as illiterate"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/392439.stm

Items before me in the press neatly straddle that Island (that was once the cynosure of the Western World).

Apparently, the UK, despite massive expenditures in education and all sorts of socialistic "experts" doing their wrecking job to the education system for decades now, have one of the most pathetic literacy rates in the world - in fact it is quickly sinking to american standards (!) .

Few perceived the consequences, and in the minds of the planners, the purpose, of hauling British children around to get them away from the influence of their parents, herd them into masses in which they would associate with the dregs of mankind, subject them to "social workers" and "Councillors"... experts in breaking the human personality and making psychiatric cases out of normal children, and replace the rudiments of education and literacy with stinking hogwash about "social science" and "the equality of mankind" that would induce proletarian squalor.

Even when shysters like Tony boy: at the 1996 Labour Party conference, stated that his three top priorities on coming to office were "education, education, and education" began to talk openly of "building a new social order," and the boob-hatcheries were known to inject into the minds of their young victims the leftists' "One World" pus, bovine Britons blinked uncomprehendingly and took pride in how much they were being taxed for new school buildings.

And now they can rejoice at the marvels of a liberal education system (which usually focuses more on how to make politically correct lemmings out of every child then "education" in the proper sense)...

I've said this before about the UK, I commented on one of the most terrible tragedies of all recorded history, the ghastly process that, in less than a century, reduced the British, a great nation and rulers of an empire on which the sun never set, to a herd of frightened sheep, huddled together on a little island on which the sun will soon set for the last time.

184 mosques and counting...

goodbye and goodluck...

I would argue that literacy would include the capacity to read a date, like 1999... the date of the article you post. Something recent, please?

[lictor616]

I would argue that literacy would include the capacity to read a date, like 1999... the date of the article you post. Something recent, please?

a 2009 UNESCO EFA Global Monitoring Report Summary puts that number at 22% still.

And the UK is very much at grips with an illiteracy plangue: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/156...nt-targets.html

-snipp-

"Teachers carry out assessments on children at the end of the "foundation" stage, as they are about to enter Year One. They are measured in a series of areas, covering personal and emotional development, communication and language, basic numeracy, physical development and creativity.Ministers expect 53 per cent of children to come up to the required level.

But according to new data, just 45 per cent are competent in all seven areas, compared to 44 per cent last year and 48 per cent two years' ago. This means fewer than half moved from reception classes to the first year of formal schooling properly prepared.

An analysis of the figures shows significant weaknesses in some key areas.

On average, 15 per cent of pupils - 80,250 - could not write their own first name, as well as other basic three-letter words. "

I assume the floodstyle immigration of somali, north african and mid eastern immigrants does not help this problem (in fact it probably is largely to blame for it...)

The great universities in Britain now offer remedial english for ALL undergrads (except in SOME areas such as literature and linguistics), that should put to rest any doubt.

Edited August 1, 2009 by lictor616

[Strangles]

a 2009 UNESCO EFA Global Monitoring Report Summary puts that number at 22% still.

And the UK is very much at grips with an illiteracy plangue: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/156...nt-targets.html

-snipp-

"Teachers carry out assessments on children at the end of the "foundation" stage, as they are about to enter Year One. They are measured in a series of areas, covering personal and emotional development, communication and language, basic numeracy, physical development and creativity.Ministers expect 53 per cent of children to come up to the required level.

But according to new data, just 45 per cent are competent in all seven areas, compared to 44 per cent last year and 48 per cent two years' ago. This means fewer than half moved from reception classes to the first year of formal schooling properly prepared.

An analysis of the figures shows significant weaknesses in some key areas.

On average, 15 per cent of pupils - 80,250 - could not write their own first name, as well as other basic three-letter words. "

I assume the floodstyle immigration of somali, north african and mid eastern immigrants does not help this problem (in fact it probably is largely to blame for it...)

The great universities in Britain now offer remedial english for ALL undergrads (instead in SOME areas such as literature and linguistics), that should put to rest any doubt.

Canada is more multi-coloured/cultured than the UK. Canada's education is one of the best in the world. Your defence?

Another race rant perhaps? Maybe some more copied and pasted articles from WN sources? Examples of Japan? Germany? US 1993 department of justice crime statistics? Fabricated facts?

Just close your eyes, pick one and post it.

Edited July 31, 2009 by Strangles

[CANADIEN]

a 2009 UNESCO EFA Global Monitoring Report Summary puts that number at 22% still.

Source?

And the UK is very much at grips with an illiteracy plangue: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/156...nt-targets.html

-snipp-

"Teachers carry out assessments on children at the end of the "foundation" stage, as they are about to enter Year One. They are measured in a series of areas, covering personal and emotional development, communication and language, basic numeracy, physical development and creativity.Ministers expect 53 per cent of children to come up to the required level.

But according to new data, just 45 per cent are competent in all seven areas, compared to 44 per cent last year and 48 per cent two years' ago. This means fewer than half moved from reception classes to the first year of formal schooling properly prepared.

An analysis of the figures shows significant weaknesses in some key areas.

On average, 15 per cent of pupils - 80,250 - could not write their own first name, as well as other basic three-letter words. "

I assume the floodstyle immigration of somali, north african and mid eastern immigrants does not help this problem (in fact it probably is largely to blame for it...)

You'd blame a toothache on immigrants, but I digress. You seem to forget something else in that article:

The conclusions come just weeks after a lobby of almost 300 academics wrote to The Daily Telegraph saying that children's development had been "contaminated" by a cocktail of addictive computer games, test-driven schooling, increased traffic and irrational fear of strangers.

They said modern life had eroded children's ability to play outdoors unsupervised - seriously undermining their creativity, independence and basic social skills.

[tango]

I'd like to see the link too lictor. Literacy stats are so often sensationalized by the media looking for an angle on a story. Most often when the facts are clarified, it's not so sensational at all.

In 1989 Southam News made a huge sensation with great ramifications for education and schools at the time, reporting that 40% of Canadian adults were weak in daily literacy skills. Turned out they were mostly over 65, educated in another era, and had absolutely NOTHING to do with schools today. literacy was strongly related to era of education, with the youngest group (16-18 I think), with learning disabled and those learning English removed, was within the error margin of having 0 illiteracy.

Nonetheless, the private sector conducted a strong campaign against education financing in Canada throughout the 90's, resulting in larger class sizes and fewer literacy supports for students.

So ya, I'd like to see the data.

[Bonam]

People being illiterate is just a fact of life nowadays. Reading the reports of my fellow engineering students, back in university, I could only shake my head at the complete incompetence of most of them, when it came to the use of English. Both immigrants and born Canadians seemed incapable of putting together meaningful sentences, let alone making them grammatically correct.

[dub]

You'd blame a toothache on immigrants, but I digress.

heh

it's funny, because it's true.