Word: morosity
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Frank Laubach. He first used it in the Philippines, where he was a missionary of the Congregational Christian Churches; Dr. Laubach performed what could well be described as a miracle in giving the Moros an alphabet and teaching them to read & write. There, the each-one-teach-one technique was...
He is many habits and many peoples-ranging from the G-stringed, pygmy Negritos and the smart, West-dressed Christian Tagalogs of Luzon, the Visayans of the middle islands, to the self-sufficient, sometimes savage Mohammedan Moros of equatorial Mindanao. He speaks a bit of English, a bit of Spanish...
In Mindanao, the unmanageable Moros ignore Manila, as usual. Without forceful persuasion, perhaps 80% of the population could never be made to dream of anything but siesta, fiesta and sunsets.
In 1899 William George Rolph, visiting in Philadelphia, heard of trouble in the Philippines. He postponed his return to his home in London, joined the U.S. Army, saw action in Panay, then fought the Moros in Mindanao.
Mama Means Man. Laubach believes in teaching individuals, or very small groups (adults hate to look foolish), and starts with syllables, not words -(most languages, unlike English, are phonetic, lend themselves to syllabic teaching). Once an adult learns symbols for syllables, he is well on his way to reading. Laubach...