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A Brief History of Education in Micronesia
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It was only during German rule in the early 1900s that the government began to take a hand in education.  On Saipan the Germans opened the first public school.  They also began teaching local policemen, like those pictured here with Governor Georg Fritz, German language and arithmetic.
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(photo from the Fritz Collection, MARC)