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Than Oo (Burmese: သန်းဦး) is a prominent Burmese educator and Ministry of Education (MOE) official. He was born in Chaungnadan village in Pyay Township, Pegu Province (now Bago Region), located 170 miles (270 km) north of Rangoon (now Yangon) in 1928. His mother was mentally ill, while his father and elder brother died when Than Oo was young. Than Oo studied at Rangoon University, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in education. He continued his study at the University of Hawaii, through a scholarship with the East-West Center, and obtained a Master of Education in 1963.

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  • Than Oo (Burmese: သန်းဦး) is a prominent Burmese educator and Ministry of Education (MOE) official. He was born in Chaungnadan village in Pyay Township, Pegu Province (now Bago Region), located 170 miles (270 km) north of Rangoon (now Yangon) in 1928. His mother was mentally ill, while his father and elder brother died when Than Oo was young. Than Oo studied at Rangoon University, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in education. He continued his study at the University of Hawaii, through a scholarship with the East-West Center, and obtained a Master of Education in 1963. (en)
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  • Chaungnadan village, Pyay Township, Pegu Province, British Burma (en)
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  • Than Oo (Burmese: သန်းဦး) is a prominent Burmese educator and Ministry of Education (MOE) official. He was born in Chaungnadan village in Pyay Township, Pegu Province (now Bago Region), located 170 miles (270 km) north of Rangoon (now Yangon) in 1928. His mother was mentally ill, while his father and elder brother died when Than Oo was young. Than Oo studied at Rangoon University, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in education. He continued his study at the University of Hawaii, through a scholarship with the East-West Center, and obtained a Master of Education in 1963. Than Oo subsequently returned to Burma. He was appointed Assistant Administration Officer of Schools at the Directorate of Education, and went on to become a Principal of the Bassein Teacher Training School. In 1965, he was appointed as the Assistant Education Research Officer under the Ministry of Education's Burma Education Research Bureau. There, he began a nationwide mass literacy movement that increased Burma's literacy rate to 78.6% by 1988, and reformed the Burmese language pedagogy. In 1977, he was appointed to Director-General of the MOE's Department of Basic Education, becoming an influential education advisor. (en)
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