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TEACHING AND PEACE CORPS

Teaching today is hard work. The old demands that one knows his subject and master the art of teaching are increased by the need to prepare students for a world that is constantly changing, and in ways that were unfamiliar and complicated.
    We now inhabit what we should call spaceship earth, and the instructor's book didn't come with it.
    But it is not true that the demands of our own technological world represent the only or even the most difficult challenge to the teacher. Beyond the technological world, there is a world not constantly changing, in fact, where change has not come fast enough, and when change alone can bring partnership in the 20th century.
    To the developing world, the peace corps teacher is asked to bring skills and knowledge. He is also asked to bring understanding, which respects the beauty of that world's religious beliefs and customs. The peace corps teacher must guide and, at the same time, respect the student's uniqueness.
    As the teacher you are not expected to save worlds, and the Peace Corps is not expected to do so either. He has been asked to help make the skills and knowledge that will allow all men to share in the modern world. And it now asks you to help in that great challenge.
    Does the Peace Corps need you? If so, how would it use you?  To answer these questions would be impossible without knowing what the Peace Corps is doing today.
    Certainly the Peace Corps has kept faith with its goal over the 10 years of existence. It sends volunteers to Latin America, Asia, Africa and Pacific. It remains dedicated to its oldest goals of helping the people in developing countries to meet their skill manpower shortage, and in promoting a better understanding of other people by Americans and of Americans by other people.


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  1. Just wished our current government will see the need of this!!!

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