An Educated Soldier Is A Superior Soldier

The first British infantry battalion to report not a single illiterate man in its ranks was the 1 st Gordon Highlanders, in 1933. This may not seem important, but was in fact overwhelmingly so. Long experience has demonstrated that the better educated a man is, the better a soldier he is likely to make. One reason for the superior performance of some armies in World War II (e.g., the German, American, and British) was the high proportion of literate men in the ranks, in contrast to most of the less successful armies (e.g., the Italian, Chinese, and to some extent even the Soviet), which had significant numbers of illiterate fighters.

Don't know who wrote this but i guess there were many soldiers in both WW's that were uneducated but who were very good soldiers.