THOUGHT FOR THE DAY!
"If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam would have been a model. That was its real "threat.
"From the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to 1972, primary and secondary school enrollment in the North increased sevenfold, from 700,000 to almost five million. In 1980, UNESCO estimated a literacy rate of 90 percent and school enrollment among the highest in Asia and throughout the Third World." -- John Pilger, author
But it was in 1980... I do not dare to place here a link to current illiteracy (not in Vietnam), few of such links - the official ones by govt - were deleted here before...
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