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Jan. 28 Ourarishi urged that I write Mrs.
Malick a letter I thanks.
We went next to the New Town School,
a girls school. The medium of instruction
is Urdu. Ourarishi feels that science should
be taught in the native tongue because the
children think in their native language and thus
gain a better grasp I conceive, etc. Mrs.
Mumtaz was in hand to receive us and several
sweet girls 12-13 yrs. old, one a very bright
youngster - the president of the student body.
We were presented [illegible] flowers for our lapel. Again we visited classrooms and
the single all purpose lab which handles,
chem, physics, and biology. A chemistry class
was in action. The girls were dressed in
colorful uniforms of varied style..
The girls assembled in the auditorium,
sitting on the floor. I was formally introduced
and asked to talk to them. I stressed the
point that science studies need not require
fancy equipment and that much science can be
done outdoors with birds, insects, plants by
applying measurement techniques. Dr.
[illegible] Ourarishi followed in Urdu and I
presumed helped clarify my points.
These Pakistani girls darken the edges of
their eyelids and often put a black line
a line that turns upward
at an angle. Sometimes a fairly broad area
of the lower lid is darkened.
We were shown "science fair" projects -