Making a new people: Education in revolutionary Cuba

by Théodore H. MacDonald

Washington worries about the soldiers Cuba sends abroad. But the teachers Cuba sends to other third world nations are a much more substantial threat to US interests. Cuba's educational revolution, more profound and far reaching even than its economic revolution, is exportable. This book describes Cuba's achievements in the field of education, the story of how Cuba's schools are creating, as Che Guevara put it, the New Man. The author traces the progress of Cuba' s schooling system from the days of the Great Literacy Campaign, one of the great events in the history of education, to the present day, when Cuba boasts what is arguably the best education system in the world.

248 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986