It is a crime to allow any child who has the mental ability to read or write to leave school illiterate orinnumerate.
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We cannot have aninnumeratescientist, whether it is archaeology, astronomy or zoology and right through the gamut of the sciences.
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It is surprising how many are still illiterate andinnumerate.
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He said that to beinnumeratewas a great disadvantage to the sheer business of living.
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He will have to work that out with hisinnumeratefriend.
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It says that, in 1991, one in five 21-year-olds wereinnumerate, and one in seven were illiterate.
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If he does, he isinnumerateor is exaggerating.
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They cannot beinnumerateand be an engineer.
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No information is compiled about the numbers of unemployed who may be illiterate orinnumerate.
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I described it as illiterate,innumerateand philistine.
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If anything isinnumerate, it is the question.
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Our education system is clearly not working if 6 million adults are illiterate orinnumerate.
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The figure for innumerates is, of course, unknown.
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Now, with no national tests before the age of 16, many pupils leave school functionally illiterate andinnumerate.
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We know that among our school-leavers and adult population there are still far too many illiterate,innumeratepeople.
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