• Awoo [she/her]
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    11 months ago

    If you didn't look at this list and ask "Why did they pick these countries and leave out others?" you're not doing critical thinking. The countries with the highest literacy in the world are almost all either socialist or formerly socialist countries.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        11 months ago

        Hexbear blocks externally hosted images so I can't see that. Can you edit it and put it in the instance properly with copy paste?

        because it only uses oecd member countries

        Ahh yes, the "international community".

        • nave@lemmy.zip
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          11 months ago

          I’ve edited the comment. The OECD seems to be the only source that breaks down literacy rate into levels. Otherwise every country that is kinda rich has a 99% literacy rate because everyone knows how to read.

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            11 months ago

            Belongs on https://reddit.com/r/alwaysthesamemap lmao

    • barsoap@lemm.ee
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      edit-2
      11 months ago

      It's an OECD report. They're comparing to OECD countries and I'd take the Polish numbers with a grain of salt as they have quite a couple fewer refugees, modulo Ukrainians (Ukraine has an education system ballpark Greece or Italy).

      Public school and universal literacy was literally invented in Germany (Luther was lobbying princes for it so people could read the bible).