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before they could appreciate the instruction received, the rates
of repeating classes and the number of drop-outs are not
surprising. The number of students repeating classes represented
12$, 11$, and 8$ of the students enrolled in the pre-primary,
elementary, and secondary schools. For the number of drop-outs
these percentages were 7$, 7$ and 6$ respectively (79).
CONCLUSION
Despite the fact that in 1978, 172,463 students attended school,
compared to 76,002 students in 1962, there was an important
increase in the number of illiterate people in the same period.
In 1962, one out of every sixteen Liberians was considered
literate, or one out of every eleven persons older than 10 years.
In 1974 this had improved to one out of every seven and one out
of every five respectively. However, the number of illiterate
people continued to increase from 653,346 in 1962 to 831,004 in
1974. See Annex 36.
The annual growth rate of the number of illiterates of 2.3$
compares relatively favorably with the 3.3$ growth rate of the
Liberian population as a whole,.both in the 1962 - 1974 period.
In the light of the priorities which the Liberian Government
attaches to the education of the people this must be considered
a problem, and even more so, given the need to improve the
quality of education.