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<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan: New Textbooks Baffle Teachers]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[IWPR: IWPR: Teachers as well as pupils at schools in eastern Afghanistan are struggling to get to grips with a newly-introduced curriculum. Some of the textbooks are far too advanced, while others are riddled with mistakes, experts claim. Ninety million US dollars has been spent on compiling and publishing the new set of textbooks.All of them are too young to remember the primer that was used in schools by their own parents. Page one, in Pashto, taught the letter &#8220;T&#8221; (or te) of the alphabet for topak (&#8220;weapon&#8221;), and used as an example &#8220;My uncle has a weapon&#8221;. Page two went further: &#8220;J&#8221; (jim), for jihad, as in &#8220;Jihad is mandatory&#8221;, or &#8220;Jamil went to jihad&#8221; and &#8220;I too will go to jihad&#8221;. And go he did. (Photo: The Economist)]]></description>
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