Educational Gaps Limit Brazil’s Reach

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Historically Brazil has had no need to read. The powerful had tutors in the aristocratic tradition. Lawyers handled the contracts and priests handled the religion. The peasants and other slaves did the work. Europe was a constant source of other needed skills.

Social and occupational mobility came as a shock.