2006-10-30 13:58:34 · 9 answers · asked by Max 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
To Steve-O, We have Stephen Hawking, he's at Cambridge.
2006-10-31 20:41:37 · update #1
It applies to the UK. I was brought up in South Africa and Zimbabwe and the education system over there is far better than here, as I noticed when I started school!!!!
Experience !!!!!!
2006-10-30 14:05:56 · answer #1 · answered by Dragon Empress 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Not even close. If you go onto the CIA World Factbook website, you can look up any country and it has the literacy rates listed. The US has a 99% literacy rate so I think most any country in Africa would have to have 100% to beat that.
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 99% (2003 est.)
2006-10-31 04:31:45 · answer #2 · answered by Iknowsomestuff 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I know a lot of people, and although their grammar is not so very good, they all read and write. This question must have come from a Non-American who thinks were all idiots. Also, consider the population compared to the other countries on the literacy list. We have a lot of people to educate. It doesn't help that our education system is flawed; were becoming a country of idiots. At least we have Stephen Hawking, take that world!
2006-10-30 22:08:25 · answer #3 · answered by Steve-o 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
List of countries by literacy rate, as included in the United Nations Development Programme Report 2005.
There are some African nations with a higher rate than the USA and many below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate
2006-10-30 22:04:48 · answer #4 · answered by Yellowstonedogs 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't know for sure, but look at who the Amnericans voted in as president! he can barely string a sentence together even when it's wriiten for him so God help the rest of them!
2006-10-30 22:05:51 · answer #5 · answered by Chey 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
That might be true but Americans are not all as dumb as they appear to be.
2006-10-30 22:01:53 · answer #6 · answered by shaydn e 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thanks yellowstonedog, for that link americas lower down the list than Mongolia LOL but as to the question most of Africa is lower than the US
2006-10-30 22:08:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it's not true.
2006-10-30 22:06:48 · answer #8 · answered by swarr2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They couldn't be, could they? ;)
2006-10-31 08:35:54 · answer #9 · answered by ianjgow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋