The Origins
When the depression hit the United States in
the 1930s, missionary Frank C. Laubach was forced to send home
his fellow missionaries. When he told the tribal leader that the
missionaries would no longer be able to teach the people of the
Philippines to read, the tribal leader asked Mr. Laubach to
teach one person to read. That person, the leader said, could
then teach others.
From that experience, the Laubach Way to
Reading, a one-on-one tutoring method, was created. For over 60
years, each one has taught another to read.
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A literate person is not only an illiterate person who
has learned to read and write, he is another person. He
is different. To promote literacy is to change man's
conscience by changing his relation to his environment.
It is an undertaking on the same plane as the
recognition and incarnation of fundamental human
right."
-Frank C. Laubach
Founder, Laubach Literacy International |
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