Posted on 10/04/2018 1:32:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Melania Trump got a different view of educating children as she visited an African primary school on Thursday that has benefited from US assistance but struggles with an enrollment of more than 8 500 students. Some children learn lessons outdoors, seated shoulder-to-shoulder on loose, red dirt.
Mrs Trump toured several outdoor classrooms at Chipala Primary School in Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, the second stop on her four-nation tour of the continent. The school is among those in the landlocked country that receive education assistance from the US Agency for International Development, including textbooks.
Mrs Trump was on hand as the US ambassador handed over another 1.4 million books through a US-funded national reading program. Malawi's schools have received some 9.6 million books under the program in the past several years.
"I wanted to be here to see the successful programs that (the) United States is providing the children and thank you for everything you've done," the US first lady said at the book donation ceremony, held inside the school's library....
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I have a friend who was contracted to illustrate a new medical textbook to very exacting standards. It has been a solid 3 year project.
But you’re right, many pursuits rarely change.
The math books need to change all the Caucasian male names in the story problems to female and ethnic names
The official language of Malawi is England, and the native languages are considered local languages. Instruction in rural areas in the primary grades is in a mix of local language and English, with children learning to read and write in English. Instruction in high school even in rural areas is in English.
The English of Malawi features some borrow words from the local languages and, increasingly, English is creeping its way into local languages. For example, numbers larger than three are English numbers.
Certainly, the folk stories and legends of the people need to be preserved. But, they can be preserved in English.
I can say I have been in Malawi and it is the stereotypical African country. I attended a US planned conference in the conference and hotel center build by a chinese company in their capital. When i went out looking for the capital city’s center, I quickly came to realize that the conference center was the city center.
JoMa
Know exactly how you feel...I recently (AUG) paid $1000 for my granddaughter's books...
If the lower-level math books like calculus I cost $300 to rent (the latest scam) or $500 to buy, for her freshman year, one of my bookcases with 58 musty old math books must be worth a fortune...
It isn't like you can go to Amazon and buy at a reasonable cost. The university restricts the sales and rentals of the books for their own benefit!
Price gouging is how the leftist education system makes money. A professor writes a book, and the students are forced to buy it at an astronomical amount.
One school got all these books?
Does anyone else think this sounds excessive?
I know exactly what you’re saying...Book costs are totally ridiculous and changing editions every year or two is just as ridiculous....I’m just glad I got through 45 years ago and my kids got through 15 years ago...
I did not mean anything insulting with my comment, I hope you realize...
“...When I was in college, many, many years ago, we had a used book store. We sold our books at semester’s end and bought used ones the next semester...”
Same when I was in college...Only problem was you buy a new book back then for $25 to $50 dollars and the used bookstore gives you $8 to $10 for it...
That’s why I majored in philosophy, all the authors are dead and can’t revise their works.
Check out Chegg.com.
It’s a textbook rental company. Far cheaper than buying and getting $.05 on the dollar to return.
That’s what my kid did and saved a ton.
My daughter is completing her degree online. They don’t make them buy books. Everything is online. Somebody in the educational cabal is starting to get it.
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