作为解放初期党和国家采取的提高民族文化素质的一种过渡形式的教育，扫盲教育虽然取得了令人瞩目的成就，但在民族地区迄今仍然存在着产生文盲、半文盲的社会土壤。本文认为，民族地区还应继续开展扫盲教育，其重点和难点是“抓住两头，带动中间”。要充分认识到扫盲教育的艰巨性、复杂性 As a transitional form of education to enhance the national cultural quality adopted by the party and state in the early days of the liberation, literacy education has made remarkable achievements, but so far there still exist social soils that are illiterate and semi-literate in minority areas. This article holds that ethnic minority areas should continue to carry out literacy education. The key and difficult point is to “grasp two ends and drive the middle one.” We must fully recognize the arduousness and complexity of literacy education