Jan. 22 Information, Education Division, to see Mr. Wali M. Zaki who is responsible for the development of science education in Pakistan. Zaki is a man in his late 20's or early 30's, efficient, intelligent. I found him one of most valuable contacts thus far. He had skimm[ed] through "guidelines". He is completing his PhD work under Water[man] at Harvard. All requirements have been completed, including defense of his thesis. He is now writing up his results. He has made a survey of science teaching in Pakistan. Of particular interest to him has been the effect of religion on attitudes toward science. He spent a year at Stanford under a Shell Oil grant. He worked there under Paul Wurd[en] in 1960. He certainly has the point of view toward science that we wish to see developed and which is emphasized by "guidelines" He feels the "guidelines' manual will be of great value to Asians but to be successful it will have to be tied in with specific programs. The U.S. has more uniformity in its approach to science than Asia. Books, teachers, socio-economic background or children all have more in common than in Asia. There is great variety in Asia. The manual may be too sketchy & too broad but Zaki stressed that he had given it only a cursory examination. Perhaps there will need to be several versions. Pontek tried to write a science series for all tropical countries and I gather (by implication) that they were not very successful. However, as I pointed out to Zaki, "guidelines" presents recommendations on procedure, not [illegible] so much specific