and adolescents in all the branches of culture — sciences, history, travels, stories, morals, and society. For the Arabic schoolbooks in their hands are few, limited in value and in subject, and their deficiency must be made good by means of reading books.
These are observations stirred in my mind by a conversation that passed between me and a teacher in a village school, who asked me about books he might read in Arabic, among them a book on psychology. I was at a loss for an answer, and I could not advise him to read foreign books, because his knowledge of English was confined to a few rudiments that did not permit him to read.
The true measure of the level of culture in a country is not the small elite of university graduates, but the average man, who represents the overwhelming majority. And so long as the majority among us is incapable of educating itself by reading, this state of affairs will lead to the stagnation of the cultural level, or its decline, by comparison with the other neighboring countries, which have begun to outstrip
us in the means of popularizing the sciences and spreading general culture.
I pointed out in a previous article the necessity of maintaining a high cultural level in Lebanon, where the desire for learning abounds and its centers — presses and schools — are many. Is it not fitting, then, that we take the lesson of the hare and the tortoise?
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Beefaroni
Macaroni with meat and tomato sauce
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Ever since Layla Baalbaki began writing in this magazine, the original, revolutionary color of her writing has caught the attention of an elite among our readers, and they have begun to ask: who might this rebel be?
To these admirers of Layla's writing we announce that the budding woman of letters has a book already penned, but her material means fall short of meeting the costs of printing it. The Woman's Voice will accept any monetary subscription, large or small, to help Layla toward the birth of her first literary work...
And we are full of hope that this bold precedent will be understood only in the sense we have intended for it—we mean the encouragement of literature and its people..