I see this literacy being touted with all communist experiments (Cuba, Venezuela) but I think it's wrong to claim literacy as a goal in and of itself. Literacy to do what, read celebrity gossip in papers?, US in 19th century (~1870) had 20% illiteracy (can't read or write in any language) and only around 20% literate and yet a more fulfilling and better life I suspect than Cuba / maybe Kerala (never been to Kerala). I suspect economic growth doesn't depend on literacy for rural economies based on farming/ hands on jobs.
I see this literacy being touted with all communist experiments (Cuba, Venezuela) but I think it's wrong to claim literacy as a goal in and of itself. Literacy to do what, read celebrity gossip in papers?, US in 19th century (~1870) had 20% illiteracy (can't read or write in any language) and only around 20% literate and yet a more fulfilling and better life I suspect than Cuba / maybe Kerala (never been to Kerala). I suspect economic growth doesn't depend on literacy for rural economies based on farming/ hands on jobs.