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Show Mexico Now One Big Schoolhouse In compliance with the second phase of Mexico's program for the eradication of illiteracy, teaching of illiterates to read and write has gotten got-ten well underway, with both individual individ-ual as well as collective instruction throughout the country. Part of President Avila Camacho's progressive program for the modernization mod-ernization of Mexican life, the decree de-cree requiring educated adults 18 to 60 to teach simple reading or writing writ-ing to one illiterate, or to teach collectively, col-lectively, has teeth in it. Citizens not complying with the decree will be forced to do so. No haphazard project, Mexico's department of education keeps a close check on each student according accord-ing to age, occupation and sex. So far, 12.000,000 free readers have been issued. |