Domingo Soto: Because Freedom Isn't Dumb

CASTRO: BATTLE OF IDEAS
...this is a country where no school-age child is to be seen roaming about or begging in the streets, where 100% of elementary-age children go to school and graduate from sixth grade, and that it is the only country in the hemisphere - including the United States - where 100% of children enroll in seventh grade and 99.5% of teenagers graduate from ninth grade. "This is a country, the only one in the hemisphere, where, from birth, children have the possibility of growing up healthy, of having a liter of milk a day, the necessary food, and, in terms of their schooling, can progress from kindergarten to graduation as a doctor of science without having to spend a single cent," he observed.
(GRANMA, unearthed by Cuban Daily News Digest)