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Twenty-four Hundred Years Ago, The Ageing And Grumpy Plato, In Book VII Of The Laws, Gave His Definition Of Scientific Illiteracy: Who Is Unable To Count One, Two, Three, Or To Distinguish Odd From Even Numbers, Or Is Unable To Count At All, Or Reckon Night And Day, And Who Is Totally Unacquainted With The Revolution Of The Sun And Moon, And The Other Stars . . . All Freemen, I Conceive, Should Learn As Much Of These Branches Of Knowledge As Every Child In Egypt Is Taught When He Learns The Alphabet. In That Country Arithmetical Games Have Been Invented For The Use Of Mere Children, Which They Learn As Pleasure And Amusement ... I ... Have Late In Life Heard With Amazement Of Our Ignorance In These Matters; To Me We Appear To Be More Like Pigs Than Men, And I Am Quite Ashamed, Not Only Of Myself, But Of All Greeks.

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