From: SolomonW@citi.com   
      
   On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 18:07:23 +0100, The True Doctor wrote:   
      
   > On 14/09/2020 09:26, SolomonW wrote:   
   >> 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.   
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   >>   
   >>   
   >> As we move into the modern era litarcy rates of soldiers are measured.   
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   (a)   
   >> 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.   
   >>   
   >   
   > So literacy was at around 80%.   
      
   see (a) above   
      
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