Dr. Tao Chih-hsing of the National Education Association. with headquarters in Peking, who is a native of Anhui, has just been here promoting a Popular Education campaign. The goal of this movement, 100 per cent. literacy, while a very long way off has been brought into the range of possibility, according to the opinion of not a few of, the leaders here who have taken part in Dr.. Tsao's campaign.
Mass meetings attended by some 3,000 students and others were held in the Episcopal Cathedral at which Dr. Tao outlined the plan for teaching illiterates the 1,000 characters. If the scheme fails it will not be due to its lack of simplicity for it is based on the "'get-one'"' plan. Every person who knows characters is sup] to teach another and this new one another and so on' till everyone can read. There are certificates for both students and teachers, the latter being a simple piece of paper posted outside the teacher's door as a proof that the occupant of the house has dono his duty toward the advance of education.
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