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by molmalo
2519 days ago
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Your post sparked curiosity in me, and I googled it... but according to Wikipedia, the Portuguese dictatorship expanded literacy to cover most of the population, and also made a: > strong investment in secondary and university education, which experienced in this period one of the fastest growth rates of Portuguese education history to date. [1] So, it seems like Wikipedia contradicts your statement... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estado_Novo_(Portugal)#Educati... |
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More specifically (quoting relevant paragraph):
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In truth, there was a lot of ignorance back then. Forty years of authoritarian rule under the regime established by António Salazar in 1933 had suppressed education, weakened institutions and lowered the school-leaving age, in a strategy intended to keep the population docile. The country was closed to the outside world; people missed out on the experimentation and mind-expanding culture of the 1960s. When the regime ended abruptly in a military coup in 1974, Portugal was suddenly opened to new markets and influences. Under the old regime, Coca-Cola was banned and owning a cigarette lighter required a licence. When marijuana and then heroin began flooding in, the country was utterly unprepared.
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That said, you are correcting wikipedia says the exact opposite which is interesting.