The Country That Stopped Reading

The Country That Stopped Reading

Should countries like Mexico solve its literacy problem? In his article, “The Country That Stopped Reading,” David Toscana states his refutation against the education system in Mexican schools.The author caught his audience’s attention with his title and announced that, “Despite recent gains in industrial development and increasing numbers of engineering graduates, Mexico is floundering socially, politically and economically because so many of its citizens do not read.” Indeed, due to the globalization, Mexico developed his industrialization areas. Instead, the country is still below the others countries because of its illiteracy rate. In fact, Toscana noticed that in today’s life, more children attend school in Mexico than ever before, however they seem to learn nothing there.  

  I strongly agreed with the author’s opinion that Mexican schools became factories that massively produce "chauffeurs, waiters and dishwashers," instead of intellectual people. I think that the Mexicans should solve the country’s literacy problem by confront the government and also the population who do not want change. The government of Mexico also should change their strategies. For instance, even if the new president Enrique Pena Nieto's strategy was to send the education secretary Elba Esther Gordillo in jail because she stole about $200 million, nothing positive happen faced to the Mexico’s system education. Mexico may anticipate real change of strategy face to this literacy problem. They should lead reading camps to boost people read more and train the teacher to several new methods of education. Indeed, the Literacy Boost solution in “A Boost for the World’s Poorest Schools,” could work in Mexico.