From: SolomonW@citi.com   
      
   On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 11:02:58 -0700 (PDT), Oh so rich & successful JTEM   
   wrote:   
      
   > CONSCRIPTS:  They're the grunts. They don't need to be educated, they   
   > only need to be disciplined.   
      
      
      
   As we move into the modern era litarcy rates of soldiers are measured.   
      
      
   In the early 1800s, we have estimates that only about a one-third of   
   British soldiers were literate to any degree. Later the British army in   
   1858, in its first serious study of literacy found that 18.8% of men could   
   read but not write, and a further 20.5% were totally illiterate.   
      
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