WPVI Inside Story February 28, 2016
Che guevara made 1961 the year of education. They had an illiteracy rate of 27 , which is ours, as well. And within a year, they dropped it to 4 . Howd they do it . They had the political will to attack Adult Literacy. And they closed the schools. Brigades of teachers and students went out into peasant fields, taught reading, taught writing. And within a year, it was turned around. And not only that, but today, cuba has the greatest literacy statistics in the world. And i talked to Michael Nutters the director of the Mayoral Commission on literacy, and she said, we could do that here. We have ...