ILLITERACY IN SPAIN.
In many villages and small towns in the interior of S])ain no one knows how to read or write. There are in Spain thirty thousand rural villages without schools of any kind, and many thousands which can only be reached by a bridle path, there being no high roads or railway communication of any kind. Attendance at school is voluntary, not obligatory. Seventy-six per cent, of the children in Spain are illiterate. ,
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Waipa Post, Volume VII, Issue 329, 10 July 1914, Page 5
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75ILLITERACY IN SPAIN. Waipa Post, Volume VII, Issue 329, 10 July 1914, Page 5
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