Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moreover, the process of study and gaining new skills never ends in Cuba. Lazara has gone back to school to become a journalist, Alberto to study literature and art. They will help to create the new communist culture, what Che has called "the culture of the twenty-first-century man." Juan will begin studying political science after the harvest...
These are not exceptional cases, individuals rising "above" their class as they would be in the U. S. Literally everyone in Cuba studies. At the in adjuration of a new own in the countryside we met a peasant woman and her daughter, a sixteen-year-old chemistry teacher. The older people study too-workers who were illiterate before the Revolution reach sixth grade or even secondary school graduate level through adult education...
...level in statistics, philosophy, and other subjects, though he had never formally graduated from high school. By the time he had become a Young Communist and learned to tell the difference between socialism and capitalism, he was ready to go to work as a translator and guide, explaining communist Cuba to North American visitors. Next year he will take political science courses in the university, while continuing to work as a guide. And he still fixes the adding machine at our camp...
Raul began studying radios in the army, just like the ads in the States promise. Only in Cuba he really learned in the army, and when he get out he was paid to go to school to learn more; while he studied in civilian school he began working at his present...
Fidel describes the political process in Cuba as "simultaneous construction of socialism and communism." The new ways of acting and reading-what Ch? labeled "the new man" -must be built simultaneously with the new technology and economic structures. Otherwise, in Cuba, neither will succeed. The aim, according to Fidel, is "to create wealth through social awareness and not the other way around...