[As the seat of the mass education experiment, Tinghsien has become a munch frequented place. Visitors from far and near pour into the every week, so much 30 that be the Mass Education Association has sometimes found it difficult to a commodate them has in consequen¢ established a small dormitory in its own premises, About the time of riy father. than a portion of it, must te tackled and rebuilt, and that for this" purpose an integrated educ ional programme must be worked out and disseminated to masses in wer realised that a more} realistic approach to of the masses sh the Mass Education ion ix to meet the needs of [the people it' wishes to serve. The gulf' between aspirations and actualities must be bridged. Therefore, the Mass Education Assi commonly wed.
12a alte "Guineas chars BiBpeneable Chinese char. titers, cheven from, 116 kinds tooks' and documents. which. have Intimate relationships with the lives of the common people. With these isle words. the Mass Education Association has compiled four read chief instrament acy. among the mae-ses. Any erate person can master these four books by devote Thou or two a day to them for a4eoci period of four months, at the end the "peasantry.
An interesting feature of the department of livelihood education ints method of developing in this alumni associations play an import ant role: they get the villagers Jorganised into what are called self-help societies. "One hundred and seventy-five of the 472 villagers in Tinghsion have already formed such es. When a self-help society is formed, its officers and members diseases in the community. After they have completed their training, teach of the health workers secures (Gt the expense of the alumni associations) a_ medical. box which contains such simple medicines and vaseline, sulphate, cascarray supplies as alcohol, aspirin, iodine, cotton and guaza. With this simple equipment, the health workers ge into the peasants' homes to fight dhe third of their four great enemies, disease, The health work-anything for their: fact they: are prohibits,
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