Some 87 schools for volunteers have been established in the recovered area of Nancheng within the last six months and it is hoped, by the end of this year, that at least 100 will be opened, The schools conducted by the Special Political Training Department are run on most economical Lines. It costs only five or six dollars a month for the running expenses, or between $20 and $25 for the entire) four-month course. The local people contribute towards the upkeep of the volunteers and whose only pay is their food and lodging.
Pupils are taught two hours daily, at dawn. This system has been adopted because, in the early daylight hours, the minds of the learn ers are clear and because they are thus enabled to go about their dail labours when school is out.
Each school has two teachers and an average of between 20 and 3 Pupils.
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