TOP-SPEED TEACHING
AN INTERESTING METHOD. Working on the principle that all letters are formed with straight lines and circles, Mme. Simon, the widow of a French colonel, claims to be able to teach totally illiterate people to read and write in 20 hours. She says she has obtained conclusive proof of the efficiency of her method by tests on young soldiers from the last batch of French recruits, which included 18,000 men who were completely illiterate. After ten lessons of two hours each, the men were able to rea*d and write. Three of her pupils broke all records and took only eight lessons of one hour each. Mme. Simon has been authorised by the French Minister of War to start a special course for illiterate soldiers at Vincennes barracks.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20005, 23 November 1927, Page 13
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129TOP-SPEED TEACHING Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20005, 23 November 1927, Page 13
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