TIME Education Teachers for Ethiopia

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Haile Selassie I, TIME Education Teachers for Ethiopia

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Education: Teachers for Ethiopia
Monday, Aug. 07, 1944

Last week His Imperial Highness, Haile Selassie, King of Kings and Lion of Judah,
celebrated his 52nd birthday and faced a grave educational problem. Ethiopian illiteracy is
rampant. While his country was under the Italian heel, every educated Ethiopian that could
be found was systematically exterminated. For six years not an Ethiopian child was allowed
to go to school.
In a population of 12,000,000 only about 5,000 children can now be accommodated in
school. (Some 400 get Boy Scout training.) Ethiopia needs school buildings, it needs
textbooks, but most of all it needs teachers.
The Ethiopian Minister to the U.S., His Excellency Blatta Ephrem Tewelde Medhen, thinks
he can find the teachers. His idea is to import U.S. Negroes to replace the slaughtered
teachers of Ethiopia. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
favors the proposal, points out that many U.S. Negroes have gone to Liberia to teach.
Teachers who go to Ethiopia will find a healthful climate (most of Ethiopia is a high
plateau), a great affection for the U.S.—and a tough language, Amharic. But an attempt is
under way to reduce" its 200 odd characters to 90, make typewriters feasible. English,
taught in the few schools which Ethiopia still possesses, has already replaced French as a
second language.

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