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handbooks and keys to textbooks, educational periodicals and magazines, and the Ministry also oversees the arrangement of libraries.
(I) School textbooks :
(a) Afghanistan is a bilingual country with Pushto and Persian as the languages. Both of these languages are taught in Afghan schools and, therefore, the teaching of languages demands special supervision. In order to accomplish this task, separate programmes of teaching these languages have been prepared and enforced in predominantly Pushto and Persian speaking areas of the country. Special textbooks have, similarly, to be compiled for this purpose. Advantage has been taken of foreign systems of language-teaching in the preparation and teaching of these languages. New Pushto and Persian books have also been compiled for courses of adult education.
(b) Publication of books abroad :
Because of other preoccupations and lack of facilities, the Ministry of Education thought it necessary to have a number of textbooks, stocks of which had been exhausted, reprinted in foreign countries.
For this purpose an agreement was concluded with Franklin Publications Inc., in Teheran, under which 125 textbooks of various titles were to be printed. During the past twelve months one million copies of textbooks under 25 different titles were printed and brought to Afghanistan. These books were mainly for use in elementary schools. Another batch of nearly one million copies comprising 40 titles are now being printed. With the completion of the whole series of these books, Afghanistan's needs for textbooks will be fulfilled for a period of three years. Local printing presses have also printed certain books relating to different sections of education and still another number is being printed.
(II) Aids to School Textbooks :
Books printed for this purpose last year relate to the subjects of science, literature, history, philosophy, agriculture, sports and scouting.
(III) Periodicals :
Periodicals are being published by different university faculties and schools in their respective fields of instruction. The Ministry publishes a monthly
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