Editing Literacy (section)

====Sri Lanka====
{{main|Education in Sri Lanka}}
[[File:Sarachchandra Theatre.jpg|thumb|The [[University of Peradeniya]]'s [[Sarachchandra open-air theatre]], named in memory of [[Ediriweera Sarachchandra]], Sri Lanka's premier playwright]]
With a [[literacy rate]] of 92.5%,<ref name="Ministry-of-Finance-Sri-Lanka-2011" /> Sri Lanka has one of the most literate [[populations]] among [[developing country|developing nations]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gunawardena |first=Chandra |year=1997 |title=Problems of Illiteracy in a Literate Developing Society: Sri Lanka |journal=International Review of Education |volume=43 |issue=5/6 |pages=595–609 |bibcode=1997IREdu..43..595G |doi=10.1023/A:1003010726149 |jstor=3445068 |s2cid=142788627}}</ref> Its youth literacy rate stands at 98%,<ref name="indexmundicom" /> its computer literacy rate at 35%,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Govt targets 75% computer literacy rate by 2016 |url=http://archives.dailynews.lk/2011/07/29/cdnstory.asp?sid=20110705_01 |website=The Daily News}}</ref> and its primary school enrollment rate at over 99%.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sri Lanka – Statistics |url=http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/sri_lanka_statistics.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180830142313/https://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/sri_lanka_statistics.html |archive-date=30 August 2018 |access-date=2 August 2017 |publisher=[[UNICEF]]}}</ref> An education system that dictates nine years of [[Compulsory education|compulsory schooling]] for every child is in place. The [[free education|free education system]], established in 1945,<ref>{{Cite book |last=De Silva |first= K. M. |title=A Short History of Sri Lanka |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |year=1981 |isbn=978-0-520-04320-6 |location=Los Angeles |page=472}}</ref> is a result of the initiative of [[C. W. W. Kannangara]] and A. Ratnayake.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Honouring the Father of Free Education |url=http://archives.dailynews.lk/2009/06/08/fea26.asp |website=The Daily News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Who was "Father" of free education in Sri Lanka?: C.W.W. Kannangara or A. Ratnayake? |url=http://transcurrents.com/tc/2009/10/who_was_father_of_free_educati.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304065821/http://transcurrents.com/tc/2009/10/who_was_father_of_free_educati.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 |access-date=21 November 2012 |publisher=Trans Currents |df=dmy-all}}</ref> Sri Lanka is one of the few countries in the world that provides universal free education from the primary to the tertiary stage.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Education: Traditional and Colonial Systems |url=http://countrystudies.us/sri-lanka/46.htm |publisher=[[Library of Congress Country Studies]]}}</ref>