Teaching to reach every single student

This recent article in the NY Times about a the managing editor of The Daily Talk, a newspaper in Liberia really knocked me out.

The editor, Alfred Sirleaf, circulates the news by chalkboard, moving it from place to place. He says:

“Those who don’t have opportunity to buy newspaper, go on the Internet, who can’t afford to buy generator to buy TV,” he said, describing just about everyone in this battered city, “I do all the dirty work for them, and I just give them exactly what they want.” Link.

This struck me as a non-virtual blog.

Here is his vision:

As the nation slowly comes back from the brink of annihilation, he
said, he wants to make sure every Liberian can keep up with the news
and play a part in the country’s young democratic government.

I am so inspired reading about his commitment to literacy and to bringing what he considers important to his people, his constituents, in an incredibly powerful and direct way.

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