Although the Cuban government may not have seemed capable of self- government, the constant influence of the United States made the Cuban people reform and reinvent their homeland. Such as relations with the University of Havana and reformists who took action in undermining the need for intellectual conversations; the Cuban government enforced the importance of education. It implemented systems to allow its citizens to stay in school until they were in ninth grade, they then had the opportunity to attend vocational school or further their education through high school and college (The United States, Cuba, and the Platt Amendment, 1901). Leaders emphasized the rigor of government education and required each student to have some education or expertise in government rule, which resulted in the Cuban country with a literacy rate as high as 99%. A rate that would be impossible to maintain in a country of “savage
Although the Cuban government may not have seemed capable of self- government, the constant influence of the United States made the Cuban people reform and reinvent their homeland. Such as relations with the University of Havana and reformists who took action in undermining the need for intellectual conversations; the Cuban government enforced the importance of education. It implemented systems to allow its citizens to stay in school until they were in ninth grade, they then had the opportunity to attend vocational school or further their education through high school and college (The United States, Cuba, and the Platt Amendment, 1901). Leaders emphasized the rigor of government education and required each student to have some education or expertise in government rule, which resulted in the Cuban country with a literacy rate as high as 99%. A rate that would be impossible to maintain in a country of “savage