Tuesday 18 October 2011

The literacy (and numeracy) campaign (UK)

To beat the increasing literacy (and numeracy) problem, the authorities came up with a campaign called The 3 Rs: Reading, Writing and Arithmetic.  Yet, of the 3 Rs, only one is spelt with an R.  No wonder they have a literacy problem...


(UK, 1990s/early noughties)

2 comments:

  1. this reminds me a bit of the "5 out of 4 people" t-shirts I see students wearing sometimes...see here
    http://www.shirtofun.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=166

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  2. The Chinese language has an expression--大半 dàbàn ("big half")--which will kill you as a maths professor.

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