Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1899 — Illiteracy in Europe. [ARTICLE]

Illiteracy in Europe.

Among the general population, illiteracy is most prevalent in the Slavic States of Russia, Servia, and Roumania, the Latin races in Italy, Spain, and Belgium, being also very backward In education, while In the purely Teutonic States the percentage of Illiterates is merely nominal. In Switzerland it Is 2.5 per cent., in the whole German Empire only 1 per cent., and in Sweden, Denmark, Bavaria, Baden, and Wurtemburg there is practically no one who cannot read and write.