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• Want your kids to stay in school? Send them to Norway.
• English speaking kids are the world's biggest novel readers - but the least enthusiastic comic readers.
• Japanese and South Korean kids are the best in the world at science and maths.
• Three quarters of Japanese kids read comics.
• American adults have spent more time than anyone in education .
• There are 22 countries where more than half the population is illiterate. Fifteen of them are in Africa.
• The women of Iceland earn two-thirds of their nation's university degrees.
• More than half of Indonesia's primary school teachers are under 30years of age .
• Thinking of becoming a teacher? Head to Switzerland. Teaching salaries there start at $US 33,000.
• Kids in Mali spend only 2 years in school. More than half of them start working between the ages of 10 and 14.
• Teachers make up 7.8 percent of Iceland's labor force - and they only have to teach 38 weeks per year.
• Central European men don't teach. In Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, over 75 percent of lower secondary teachers are female.

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