Science Corps aka Literacy Corps was one of the three corps in Iran managed by the Ministry of Education and Ministry of War before the 1979 revolution. They were a public education program part of principle number 6 of the White Revolution. The Corps trained around 100,000 Iranian students and adults. People hired by the Corps were first trained by the Imperial Iranian Army for 4 months and then employed as teachers and educators by the Education Ministry and deployed to public schools and villages to serve for a period instead of their conscription.
The Literacy Corps also helped raise the nation's literacy rate from 26 to 42 percent.
Before the 1979 revolution Khomeini was a vocal critic of the Science Corps questioning their works and saying they secretly brought influences of American culture.