"Phil Cook" wrote in message
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On 17/02/2013 02:31, Christina Websell wrote:
"Phil Cook" wrote in message
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On 17/02/2013 00:56, Christina Websell wrote:
"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
ll.co.uk...

Having said that a google produces many hits which state the UK
average
reading age is around 8 or 9.

What? Not for my family.

By being higher you cannot drag the lowest or the
average up to your level.

Maybe we were just lucky to be intelligent or maybe our parents made us
go
to school and NOT let us duck out.

Yes, it used to be a constant source of amazement to me how dim some folk
are. Once I left the ivory towers of academia I faffed and wasted and now
work at a post some way below my education. I suppose after 20 years I am
now used to it, that and the fact that some folk seem to have no work
ethic whatsoever.
--
Phil Cook

My eldest nephew is now studying Physics at Bath, I hope he doesn't waste
the opportunity.