It's been shown through statistics (take them with a grain of salt) that reading for pleasure is on the decline in the United States and Europe, with a high percentage of college graduates never picking up another book after their education completes.
It's been shown through statistics (take them with a grain of salt) that reading for pleasure is on the decline in the United States and Europe, with a high percentage of college graduates never picking up another book after their education completes.
That's one statistic that I don't have to take with a grain of salt. I see it around me every day.
While that isn’t good in this day and age digital articles, books, audio books, fan fiction, podcasts, etc. a lot of that same stimulation can be had through other means.
Important note: the CCP allows for paper copies of 1984 to be retailed within the country because the Party's view is that proles will be addicted to television and other visual/auditory media while the "Inner Party" will be educated enough to understand the concepts in the book but not turn against the regime.
The research on "theory of mind" has been scant but I for one believe it has a grain of truth.
Cuban here...👋
The reason Cuban education is so “good” is because by 9th grade if you aren’t cutting it... you go to the fields to work like a dog and then maybe a trade school. Only the brightest go on to high school. So yeah. Looks great on paper. 🤷🏻♂️😂
Sounds like pretty much every commie shithole, hell, most countries except the US. And people wonder why are our literacy rates and education scores are so low. It's because we're damn near the only country who any where near honestly reports them, and for the population as a whole, not the select, pre-filtered few.
In 2018, the U.S. scored 25th globally on PISA (out of 77 placings), which ranks student achievement in math, science, and reading. Our average score was 495. The highest was China at 578.7. This may seem awful, but we do test all students (including LD who are capable of taking exams, even with assistance). No other country does this, and China only tests those who enter their best academies (so the highest ranking students in China).
Under those circumstances, we aren't doing that badly.
Reddit loved him. Had someone say "but what about muh literacy rate". Over and over.
Castro had a reason for raising the "literacy rate" in Cuba.
He used the teaching of reading, writing, and even math to bombard students with non-stop Communist propaganda.
I couldn't find it quickly, but a Cuban refugee explained it very well in an article about a year ago.
and our school system copied him.
It's been shown through statistics (take them with a grain of salt) that reading for pleasure is on the decline in the United States and Europe, with a high percentage of college graduates never picking up another book after their education completes.
That's kind of sad. There's a lot you can learn from books still.
That's one statistic that I don't have to take with a grain of salt. I see it around me every day.
While that isn’t good in this day and age digital articles, books, audio books, fan fiction, podcasts, etc. a lot of that same stimulation can be had through other means.
Yes, you can't push propaganda if your subjects are illiterate.
Important note: the CCP allows for paper copies of 1984 to be retailed within the country because the Party's view is that proles will be addicted to television and other visual/auditory media while the "Inner Party" will be educated enough to understand the concepts in the book but not turn against the regime.
The research on "theory of mind" has been scant but I for one believe it has a grain of truth.
It makes sense. When you know that you are already in the favor of Big Brother (as tenuous as that is), the book must look a lot different.
1984 is an instruction manual for them.
right on.
Cuban here...👋 The reason Cuban education is so “good” is because by 9th grade if you aren’t cutting it... you go to the fields to work like a dog and then maybe a trade school. Only the brightest go on to high school. So yeah. Looks great on paper. 🤷🏻♂️😂
Sounds like pretty much every commie shithole, hell, most countries except the US. And people wonder why are our literacy rates and education scores are so low. It's because we're damn near the only country who any where near honestly reports them, and for the population as a whole, not the select, pre-filtered few.
In 2018, the U.S. scored 25th globally on PISA (out of 77 placings), which ranks student achievement in math, science, and reading. Our average score was 495. The highest was China at 578.7. This may seem awful, but we do test all students (including LD who are capable of taking exams, even with assistance). No other country does this, and China only tests those who enter their best academies (so the highest ranking students in China).
Under those circumstances, we aren't doing that badly.
Sounds like our COVID-19 reporting. Can't use any stats for ranking if they aren't the same stats.
Same reason out infant mortality rates are higher. We consider some circumstances deaths that other countries don't.
And if you still couldn’t get with the program did they have another track where you were marched out to the beach and shot?
Data on that initiative is inconclusive, comrade.
Meritocracy in ation.
LOL really? 'Oh you took my farm and killed my son for fighting back? Lol thats fine, at least I can read and shit, haha we're good!'
It's easy to raise the literacy rate when you shoot all the illiterates.
Doesn't Iran claim 0 gay people? And didn't a bunch of academic leftists laugh when that Iranian leader laughed about it?
Iran throws gay people off rooftops so maybe the number is close to zero
I don't think the academics were in on the joke.
They did all of that in spite of communism, not because of it.