An anecdote that illustrates this: my granddad (born in a village near naples in 1940) had his appendix taken out by a travelling doctor on his kitchen table.

It's this soviet joke

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Danish Architecture Museum is very interesting and also has a slide dac.dk/en/

And its been there right from the beginning, in for instance Romans: 'Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us'

My experience is that for pupils who struggle with both (and they largely correlate) literacy is worse than numeracy - it's very rare for someone not to know how to work out 7 times 5, but relatively common not to know how many bananas in total there are if there are 7 bananas per pack and 5 packs.

Which (apart from a, oddly) describes Edinburgh - you can see how many people comfortably fit inside a desireable area that still includes warehouses, a cemetery, a high school with playing field, a park and half of a football stadium.