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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual budget for propaganda abroad, Italy spends nearly half to support, wholly or partly, some 800 schools, most of which are in the U. S., France and South America. In the U. S., these schools are usually conducted after public-school hours, ostensibly to teach Italian...
...free public trade schools to teach youngsters to fly an airplane, repair an automobile, refurbish a woman's face. But until last week there was no free public school for training workers to serve the nation with its prime necessity-food. Last week New York City's Board of Education announced that a week hence it would open the first Food Trades Vocational High School...
...hundred years ago, India had a school in every village. Then Great Britain took charge of India's educational system, began to teach Indians in English, to concentrate on training clerks and professionals for its commercial and civil service. Now, 50,000 Indians go to college each year, and one-fifth come out with B.A. degrees or as "failed B.A.'s."-* In India nowadays professions and Government service are overcrowded, and the village schools are vanishing. With only half as much money spent on primary education as on higher education, barely 7% of the population is in school...
...vidya mandirs will be "work schools" instead of "book schools." The Mahatma proposes to teach India's children how to use their minds by teaching them how to use their hands. Chief subjects in the curriculum will be spinning, weaving, agriculture, sugar-making; chief instrument of education, the takli, a small spindle on which the student can spin yarn as he walks, talks, prays. As they learn these trades, India's school children will also learn history, geography, the three Rs. English will be taboo, for British de-Indianizing of the Indians, says Gandhi, is the nation...
...combat the in fluence of those "propagators of superstition," the village priests. Individualists and pious Mexicans make things hot for the President's idealistic school teachers. Twenty-five have been murdered so far this year. The peasants have developed a fondness for cutting off the ears of teach ers they do not care to murder. So the President's teachers all tote guns, and frequently have to use them...