Front:
Each one
USA 30c
BENTON
teaches one.
SEP
1984
17814
Frank C. Laubach
PA
Back:
Dr. Frank Laubach has borne many titles, but perhaps
the title which best characterizes his life is Okom-
bekombe – a name meaning Mender of Old Baskets
given to him by the tribes of the Belgian Congo, because
he taught old people to read and write. As a young man,
Dr. Laubach recognized that the poor, the hungry and
the sick of the world are very often illiterate too ... and
he resolved to create tools to help the poor help them-
selves. Probably the single greatest contribution he made
to the education of illiterate people was the famous Each
One Teach One method . . . each person who learned
to read and write had to teach only one other person
and in the same time Dr. Laubach could teach another
person. Dr. Laubach devised a special method of picture-
word-syllable charts which could be used to represent
and teach the often unwritten languages of primitive
peoples. During his forty-year crusade, Dr. Laubach's
teaching charts were translated into some three hundred
languages spoken in over one hundred countries.
No. 84-38
©1984 The Maximum Card Collection
A Division of Unicover Corporation • Cheyenne, WY 82008-0007
Original painting by Shannon Stirnweis.
