Jonathan Kozol, in Harvard
Socialism Educational Review (August 1978),
Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cam- bridge, Mass. 02138.
In September 1960, Fidel Castro publicly vowed to teach more than 1 million illiterate adult Cubans to read and write in 12 months. The literacy campaign that followed, says Kozol, a visiting lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, was not only "a pedagogical victory unparalleled in the modern world" but helped turn Cuba into a socialist country.
Kozol...