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SUNDAY. MARCH SI. 1103
merican Educators Help Bring Afghan s System Up to Standards
f FREDERICK H. TREESH
Unittd Press International
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, bold the promise of such
, rich reward to their recipi
ents as the funds underwrit
, Ing the work of a group of
.t 35 American educators In
' Afghanistan.
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ed by Iran and Pakistan, a
project group from Teach
ers college at Columbia uni
versity is undertaking a gi
ant task: Helping to bring
the Afghans' primitive edu
cational system up to 20th
century standards. Success
or failure may well hold
the key to the remote coun
try's role in the future
world.
Afghanistan Is a place
where roads and communi
cation facilities are sparce.
Communication, in fact, is
largely word of mouth. The
literacy rate in only 8 per
cent and, in a country of 12
million, only something
over 200,000 children are
in school; only 20,000 above
the sixth grade.
The Teachers college
group, headed by Dr. John
W. Polley, is attacking the
problem in two principal
ways: Educating Afghan
teachers and helping them
prepare modern teaching
materials.' A . number of
Americans also are teach
ing English, the official
second language of Afghan
istan despite its proximity
to Russia.
With financial backing
of the U.S. Agency for In
ternational D e velopment
(AID) and working with the
Afghanistan government,
the eight-year-old Columbia
project has trained direct
ly 1,000 Afghan teachers.
Another 7,000 have taken
brief courses.
The Americans worked,
for the most part, in the
main university in Kabal,
the capital City of 300,000
persons, but recently aid
ed in the establishment of
three additional teacher
training facilities. '
Great Deal of Progress
Although even today
there are less than 500
teachers with the education
al equivalent of the average
American classroom in
structor. Dr. Polley is en
couraged and hopeful for
continued progress.
"The Afghanistan project
is at the point that in the
next five years there will
be a great deal of progress,"
the school administration
specialist said on a visit
here to report on the proj
ect and recruit personnel.
"There will be a core of
teachers who' can carry on
the work only we could do
two years ago."
- Each American in the
project group works with
two Afghan "counterparts," '
Dr. Policy said. They learn
from the American teaching
methods and how to write
books and materials. . .
Suoh collaboration has re
sulted, among other things,
in the preparation of a com
plete secondary school sci
ence series, additional texts
in biology and physics and
an English program for
grades 7 through 12.
Dr. Polley expects there
. will be in' the years ahead
a multiplying effect in the
work his group is doing as
American' -' trained teach
ers train others and an in
creasing number of Afghans
go abroad for study.
"I can see where we
might be out of a job in
about five years," he said.
"If we could get a dozen
or so (Afghan) persons in
education with a year or
so beyond the master's de
gree, several with master's
degrees in English and a
couple with doctorates,
then we could turn it over
to them."
. Dr. Polley will return next
fall to the Teachers col
lege faculty" here after a
two-year tour as head of
the Afghan project. His
successor is as yet unnam
ed. The professor, his wife
and 17-year-old daughter
have resided in Kabal, al
though the daughter this
year is attending school in
Beruit, Lebanon.
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