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It should speak more eloquently than any other prophecy.
Similarly, the emphasis on health education is a notable govern-
ment effort to provide more adequate public health services and medical
and hospital care. Here education can improve the home life of Puerto
Rico's families and enhance the well-being of the community. The methods
being used in this important work--and the results obtained--will be
studied by public health administrators and government officials through-
out the world.
The same holds true for rural vocational training and home economics
courses. The "second-unit" schools of Puerto Rico will be of great assist-
ance in the efforts of your island government to get to the roots of its
agricultural problem. Through widely dispersed knowledge of modern methods
in agriculture the dead weight of the past can be lifted from your farm
economy. Those other countries which, like yourselves, must ultimately
find an equitable solution, through democratic procedures, to the problem
of land distribution may profitably study your method of approach.
But perhaps the most direct and forthright action in the field of
education is Puerto Rico's decision to revert to Spanish as the basic
language for teaching in the public schools. This is a decision which
educators generally can applaud. For unless fundamental schooling is
provided in terms of one's native culture, it is almost certain to result
in failure. No one can even guess how many educational shortcomings
resulted from the attempt to conduct classes in what was for many an
alien tongue.
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