National Literacy Campaigns

@tomaspueyo potentially interesting to you: https://t.co/FnOlzNL31z

Scotland. Universal literacy as a human right since 1560. https://t.co/EFWNcOFdrh

This is a major reason: "By 1850 Prussia’s literacy rate had reached 85%. This compares with a mid-century rate of 61% for France (reading only) and 52% for England (reading and writing)." https://t.co/nic29yLY40, p. 29 More insights below ⬇️

@RupakChatto As I mentioned to @historytime99 the Lutheran doctrine of "read the word of god yourself" was responsible for relatively high rates of literacy already in N.Germany. But for more on education see: https://t.co/YixZxkw5JQ