Aliteracy and Illiteracy
I recently saw a stat (99% literacy in the US) in an handout for an ECON class I am taking. It struck me as surely inaccurate.. so I asked Google.
Apparently that 99% figure is the self-reported "able to read and write" rate. However some 21% of the US population is "functionally illiterate", in terms of being able to read beyond about a 6th grade level. In other words 1/5th of the population cannot be handed a moderately complex report, document or form and be expected to pull requested information from it.
Now this next bit is REALLY scary (stats are for the US btw) ...
"1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.
80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years. "
1/3 of high school grads never read another book after finishing high school!!!?
What the bloody hell is wrong with peoples' brains?
Now granted these are not statistics that I have been able to verify (which means they are "throwaways" in terms of true evidence)... but it's still enough to make one's spine crawl.
"The first stage is to get the Gang( hard, solid power). every movement should be done with full power and in hard way, also need to get the twisting and wrapping power, whole body's tendon and bones need to be stretched to get the Gang( hard) power. "
-Bi Tianzou -