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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well the 98% is a number anyone could pull out of
anywhere. Additionally, even with the "Old Deluder Satan Law" literacy
wasn't necessarily a goal for females, or the poor, or slaves...And even the
level of knowledge defined as "literate" then would be insufficient
for today. The national census, which did attempt to tally the
literate didn't even begin until 1790. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sue</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, May 13, 2007 1:49 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] What was education
like before the Prussian method ofindoctrination?</DIV>
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<DIV>"<SPAN contentEditable=false style="DISPLAY: inline-block"></SPAN>Without
public education, we might as well set our clocks back 300 years
and<BR>restrict education to only those that can afford it." Tom-Tom
Hansen.</DIV>
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<DIV>I don't think that the education in the Colonies 300 years ago was only
for the "well off". If that were the case then why was there a 98% literacy
rate back then? <BR><BR></DIV>
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