Literacy - /lit/ (#24541446) [Archived: 380 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:23:47 PM No.24541446
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How did the USSR achieve such a high literacy rate without school choice?
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:25:07 PM No.24541449
what do you mean?
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 2:25:49 AM No.24541896
>>24541446 (OP)
they probably lied
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 2:45:34 AM No.24541933
>>24541446 (OP)
They probably didn't have a culture of people actively discouraging academic success.
>>24541896
Also this probably.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 2:53:19 AM No.24541949
>>24541446 (OP)
"School choice" was not a thing in America from the 30s-80s and literacy rates were much higher than they are now
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 2:54:30 AM No.24541950
Because they are inherently smarter than Europeans and Americans
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:48:58 AM No.24542249
>>24541896
I'm going off the CIA numbers.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 8:44:58 AM No.24542576
>>24542249
man i don't know maybe they just forced everyone to go to school or something
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 10:28:56 AM No.24542689
>>24541446 (OP)
>without school choice?
That is wrong, though. You did have a choice to which school you wanted to go. However, if there were too few workers or too many workers in a certain field, that is when the government stepped in and pushed people into the necessary school. This was often done through subsidies and other bonuses for choosing the school they wanted you to choose.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 10:49:09 AM No.24542710
>>24542689
Seems like a better society. People already pretend as if we "choose" our field nowadays, and those same people will screech and laugh at somebody for picking gender studies
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:10:08 AM No.24542739
>>24541446 (OP)
>without school choice
huh? The Soviet system prioritized getting talent into the best places. If you’re a talented mathematician, you would end up in Steklovka. And so on. And literacy rates have nothing to do with choice. Who the hell asks a toddler “hey do you want to learn how to read and write?”
t. Russian
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:26:26 AM No.24542757
>>24541446 (OP)
Idk why nobody answered yet. Lenin hated illiterate proles so he forced them to learn. It's, like, one of the things about capitalism, it gatekeeps knowledge from the poor.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:28:20 AM No.24542759
>>24542689
>>24542739
>huh?
Burgers know that Russians are perpetually forced to do something. They're not sure on what is it exactly, but they are assured that life in Russia is all about being forced into things against your will. Same with whatever society (((they))) happen to find inconvenient today.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:34:22 AM No.24542768
>>24542710
You do choose your field of study. However, people are also lazy retards who only pick the easy stuff because they just want the title.
And that kind of attitude is encouraged by the governments nowadays.
Meanwhile, the actually important fields that would also be actually well paid, like technical universities, are overlooked because they require you to actually put in the effort.