U.N. pessimism about literacy
(N.Z Press Assn —Copyright) PARIS, September 9. A United Nations report on a 10-year international literacy experiment expresses deep pessimism that the world’s 800 million illiterates will ever learn how to read or write. The report calls illiteracy “mankind’s last scourge,” but frankly acknowledges that there is little hope of eradicating it. The document will be published in full at the end of this year, but its main findings are included in a Unesco statement . released yesterday, World Literacy Day. The experimental programme, which involved one million learners in 13 countries, was to have paved the way for a world literacy campaign, but, the report says, "neither literacy nor development can be willed into existence by international agencies. At best, they can perhaps prick the conscience of national governments.”
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33944, 10 September 1975, Page 17
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