Word: unesco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slower, but the problem was also of a very different magnitude.) The Cuban campaign began in January, 1961, with an appeal to secondary students to "help in the battle." Thirty-four thousand professional teachers trained and directed the student volunteers. Castro mobilized 268,420 of them for what UNESCO estimated was a fantastic student-teacher ratio of three...
...last two years, UNESCO has concerned itself closely with the problems of wiping out illiteracy. A 1965 Teheran Conference marked the start of a six country project. The six countries-- Iran, Mali, Algeria, Ecuador, Guinea, and Tanzania--were chosen from the 50 applicants for their "readiness": they all more or less had successful literacy programs under way already; and the governments were willing to apportion a good deal of energy--and money (60 per cent of cost)--to the program...
...UNESCO projects use a different tactic for "motivating" their students. Instructors play on what they call "the keeping-up-with-the-Joneses syndrome." For instance, Farmer A learns to read so that he can learn how to use the bag of fertilizer the government has provided. The fertilizer doubles the autumn crop. Farmer B sees that his neighbor is getting more fruits for the same amount of labor. Farmer B determines he will learn how to read. The lesson is simple, the UN's experts conclude: give a man some reason to learn, and he will not only learn...
...Thursday Afternoon Lecture Series: Albert V. Baez, Division of Science Teaching, Department for the Advancement of Science, UNESCO, on "My Love Affair with UNESCO." Emerson Hall...
...Texas-born Frank Malina, 54, now a UNESCO adviser on astronautics in Paris, was a cofounder of Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Starting out to make "a little bridge" between science and art, he began with strings, wires and painted plastic screens. He calls his finished squiggly luminal needlepoint paintings "Lumidynes," has built some ten feet high...