In 1860, in the first national census it was reflecting that only 19,9 % of the population could read and write. The literacy had been always a little reserved to the wealthy and powerful classes. It could not be otherwise: the reading is the door to the information and the information is to be able.
But in 1879 the Spanish Working Socialistic Party was born. Especially from the beginning of the XXth century, this party contributed to the cultural emancipation of the workers from the Houses of the People. In words of Justo Martínez Amutio, direct disciple of Pablo Iglesias and, deceased Franco, Senator of the Spanish socialist party for Valencia:
We knew the existence in Spain of these Houses of the People from boys, still almost children, when at the age of twelve we begin frequenting in our Logronio the Working Center and the school that in the same one existed, ruled by militants emphasized from diverse professions in the one that was completing the instruction and the education that we had received in the primary schools of the epoch. Between those who were helping there was good number of illiterate workpeople anxious to obtain the necessary conditions to know books and leaflets or newspapers of the deficient press of the epoch and to communicate to his relatives, almost always also illiterate, and to other partners quite what was allowed that the worker was reading and knew, that was not abundant and of quality, precisely.
In Spain, the Houses of the People settled not only to lodge and to assemble the workpeople and his resistance societies, but to fight the ignorance and the negligence that existed between them, which it was doing to them to be easy instruments of development, submissive to a morality and to a few absurd conventionalities that were imposed in that society retrógada and ignorant. They were established to announce to those who were coming to them his real condition and place in the society like free men and women, like hard-working that were producing and turning the resources of the nature into wealth of the nation, but of that they were not perceiving anything. This condition was announced to them and that the faculty to work was not a favor that they were receiving from his owners.
Today like yesterday, the Spanish socialist party keeps on fighting against a new illiteracy: the digitalis. There are great the persons who have not had up to recent epoch, or they do not have yet opportunity to approach the new technologies. Those who yes could have done it overcome in several decades of age the native digital ones. They know, how persons who share a vision of progress, which one comes a new time provoked by a technological change as important as there was in his moment the machine of steam or the television. But they need to learn. They want to learn.
For this motive, today, tens of Local Groups of the Spanish socialist party give courses of digital literacy for the whole territory. To bring over our biggest persons (and not so major) to the use of Internet and the New Technologies; helping to reduce this way the digital divide. One of them is the Socialistic Group of the District Center of Madrid, which has invited me to give one of these basic courses. A course for to learn to create and edit a blog.
I feel very honest.
Hernán Cortés 9 invited you to share the course with me today to 20:00h in the street.
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