Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...untold hours of valuable time in learning to spell with letters having no connection with the sound of the words. . . . More power to the students for having the courage to defy the old mossbacks by refusing to carry this senseless load any longer and thereby-we hope-start a movement for spelling reform...
...away from the Japanese. But while Chen encouraged practical subjects (a country at war needs engineers), he cut down on history, economics and politics. His advice to students: study-quietly and make no trouble. Extracurricular activities disappeared, except for Chiang's San Min Chu I Youth Group, a movement for training the young in hsiao and cheng, and in such un-Chinese pastimes as swimming. The Education Ministry started a bureau to "guide the thoughts and control the actions" of students, abroad as well as at home. When criticized for using "thought police," Chen made a distinctly totalitarian reply...
...Brains Trust" program (the English equivalent of Information Please) Laborite Barbara was one participant who never said "I don't know." Audiences loved her for her quiz-kid memory. Between broadcasts she lectured on politics and economics, labored for the liberal Roman Catholic "Sword of the Spirit" movement...
Though China was old and wise after 40 centuries of civilization, only 15% of her people knew how to read & write when James Yang Ch'u Yen and his Mass Education Movement went to work. In 24 years Chinese education has been revolutionized. The forces of history and the energy of many scholars had a lot to do with it. So did Jimmy Yen. Last week Jimmy Yen, in the U.S. looking for help to continue the job, reported that China's illiteracy rate has been reduced...
...idea for the Mass Education Movement came to spare, spindly Jimmy Yen, now 53, when he was thousands of miles from home. A member of China's scholar aristocracy and a graduate of Yale, he went to Europe for the Y.M.C.A. in World War I, was assigned to a labor battalion of 5,000 coolies. Part of his job was to write letters, for no ordinary Chinese could master the stilted literary language (Wen-li). Back in China, scholars like Dr. Hu Shih (later Ambassador to the U.S.) were starting to write in the simpler Pai-hua, or spoken...