English Translation

3 - In order not only to make all these collections appear as a burden on the school, but also to evaluate them as educational and educational, the work plan for the school year 1943/44 determined that the teaching in all those objects in which it is possible without unnatural compulsion is concerned with the war-important collections and that the best written, handicrafts= and other works on this subject area are shown in local= and district exhibitions of the entire population. Such exhibitions were held in almost all the school supervision areas of the Protectorate. According to the consistent reports of the district= and also of the state school inspectors, this connection of the collecting activity with the rest of the teaching had an extraordinarily fruitful effect on the latter, while the exhibitions became an effective means of advertising in the broadest circles of the population. As with the war-important collections, the school youth's work in various areas of our domestic war economy remains the same. The silkworm breeding of schools, which in the year I942 produced only 268.53 kg of cocoons, almost quadrupled their income in 1943 by delivering 990.87 kg of coke, i.e. about 1 t, in that year. The expansion of the cultivated area in the school gardens and the production and gardening of garden land outside the school grounds brought in the year l943 an extension of the built-up garden area by 637.000 m2, i.e. 8.63 ha 70 a. The newly acquired area was used exclusively for planting vegetables, which again benefited the school youth as part of the vitamin action. The afforestation work, after the experiment of the previous year had succeeded, saw (about looo schools with several thousand classes and many tens of thousands of pupils in use. The number of abandoned forest trees amounts to many million. The use of the school youth in the harvest aid plants and in the pest control took place in the year l943 i.m.