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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 179, 2 September 1909, Page 2

Statistics •showing tiermanyVi position as the best cdimi'ted nil lion' in Kurope are proudly published in the Berlin press. 'Hie Fatherland .not onlv leads with the greatest amount of' school children (0,750.001)). bill wi'lli the amount spent for school purposes ( £2(i,flul)Ji(iol. Her peivcntagc of illiteracy (o !; e.twentieth of 1 per-cent,) i-' the lvwc.,! in Euro)ie. (ircat Britain's percent ag;' is 1. mid Italy's over ?,(!. More thnn half the -recruits for Continental coiiseriiit 'armies can .neither read 'nor .write. In Bulgaria the percentage I of illitwa'ey among'recruits is 52, in j Serviu and Hu-mia (ii. in Portugal u-.nl Sjnahi 70. njul In Tiouiminia 75.' NorthWestern Kurope. ineliisinv <rf tin- British Isles, is vastly Miperhi'r of the re;l of Kurope in educational attainments, its pereontaje of illiteracy being onlv 2, as against Western Enrone'n 13, SouthWestern Kurope'* .11). ' mud Eastern Europe's 55. France shtovs the greatest nroOTivs-s l,i the militating of illiteracy. In 1872 liie •iiiiinlier nf French armv recruits who could neither rend nor write, was 1!». I a per cent. I„ 181)11 the percentage had been reduced liv half, and by 11105 it had sunk to 4.1 i» iter cent. No otlier coiiirU-y approaches that record.

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