Monday, June 19, 2006
Let Them Learn
Cuba has been teaching millions world wide to read with a program called Yes I Can Do It. UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, does not want to recognize this fact and acts as if it does not exist. Perhaps because it is not the program Laura Bush promotes, which is not as effective.
In 2000 there were 130 million children excluded from school systems and 880 million illiterates. All methods should be recognized and encouraged with a problem this size.
It was this method that has all but eradicated illiteracy in Venezuela. Cuba's medical expertise and its willingness to share it is also a shining example to the rest of the world.
Its a good thing to be able to read and find out the truth yourself from all view points i think.yeahhh cuba
Dog and all the time i thought school was a punishment.Pick up pencil in left had wack .Cry about it wack .Did not talk right so lets put rocks in her mouth spit them out wack .Back then i guess moms could not stop abuse and being forsed to do things not natural o well .But a good caring eduacation im glad is what my step kids had cause thay tryed that with them i told them hit my kids and ill go to jail and you will go to a hospital thay where nice to my kids .
UNESCO LITERACY AWARD FOR “YO, SÍ PUEDO”
Paris, June 19 — Cuba’s Latin American and Caribbean Pedagogical Institute (IPLAC) has received the UNESCO 2006 Ray Sejong Literacy Award for its promotion of a literacy campaign, the institute reported. Héctor Hernández Pardo, Cuba’s ambassador to the UNESCO, stated that the prize is an acknowledgement of a program specially created by the Cuban education system for helping other countries.
Cuba sets so many fine examples of what a country can do for others. It is always good to hear when they get the recognition they deserve for it.
Underlying all of this is the fact that while the US has demonised Castro and is doing its best to do the same to Chavez, these guys are at least attempting to improve the lot of their citizens.
While the US administration calls Chavez a mad dictator illiteracy in the US remains surprisingly high.
o so true i know a lot who i went to school with well the many schools i went to as long as you showed up thay keep passing you i know some who even graduated and could not read in a 8th grade level .And not the no child left behind is doing just that leaving so many behind and funding gets cut .But what do i know i was thrown out lol In a way i guess its keep then simply stupid. scary how well it seams to have worked.
Do not feel bad RC. You have a lot of company in that. There are not many in the USA who know much about what occurs in the rest of the world and purposely so. That includes even happenings taking place in territories of their latest invadee. It is nice you now know something of which most of your nation will not be told. Hope you return to visit us often and possibly pick up some more.
