Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign: Its Democratic Essence

Abstract

Literacy is an apprenticeship in life because in the process people learn their intrinsic value as human beings, as makers of history, as actors of important social roles, as individuals with rights to demand and duties to fulfill. - Frente Sandinista, November 1979

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