Perhaps I'm just feeding you lines, but when we look back at the growth of literacy worldwide, one of the explanations for the success of Scotland in terms of becoming the centre of the Industrial Revolution was the fact that they had almost universal literacy in the middle of the seventeenth century as a result of widespread reading of the Bible.
The more we can encourage literacy, the more likely we are to see not only improved maternal health but improved economic development, improved entrepreneurship, and more innovation within society. There's hardly a thing you can point to that doesn't come from education. Wouldn't you agree with that?