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B. CHINZORIG
Cewen, E. Batxan, and D. Cewegjaw have carried out the burden of developing the
educational system in the modern Mongolia. In other words, many Buryat teachers who
understand and valued the wisdom of these intellectuals had worked together to provide
inestimable contributions to the contemporary education development in Mongolia.
In 1925, ISdorj was appointed as an advisor to the establishment of the Ministry of
Education, while he was simultaneously working as a specialist of teaching methods
working at the Institute of Sutras and Scriptures. He was very good at Russian, French,
and German and he compiled numerous textbooks from these languages dedicated
to his students. For example, he translated and published textbooks such as part 1 of
“Natural Sciences”, “Air, Water and Land” (196 pages), and part 2 and 3 of the follow¬
ing book “Botany” (224 pages) and “Human Anatomy and Physiology” (63 pages) in
1931, and “Zoology” (144 pages).
Apart from translating these books, B. ISdorj focused on writing Mongolian books
and textbooks, such as didactic books “Learn first, then teach,” the second book of
“Reading Literacy” in the 1930s, and philological books such as “Mongolian gram¬
mar,” which were considered by contemporary scholars as primary books on linguis¬
tics.
The number of people writing textbooks increased, and the quality and availabili¬
ties of these textbooks improved with the support of teacher B. ISdorj, who worked
as a chief of the technical department of the Ministry of Education in the Mongolian
People’s Republic. These facts justify his efforts in the educational achievements of
Mongolia.
His Appointment to Germany
After discussing the reports of the Ministry of Education, the First National Congress
acclaimed the following on 8 November 1924: “... to evaluate and enroll the exact
number of people who should be educated in schools, and to coordinate with teachers
housing and supplying from obliged authority, beforehand,” and also “... support and
educate the students with any ideology of domestic or foreign education setting.”
Mongolian students were educated in Leningrad, Moscow, and Irkutsk based on this
resolution. Furthermore, on | January 1926 (in the 16" year of the Bogd xan’s reign),
ambassador Buyancilgan of the Mongolian People’s Republic in Soviet Russia, had
notified in a petition that decided to enroll 15 students per schools in Germany and
France, to the Government and the Ministry of Education.
Therefore, the Government assigned Erdenebatxan, the Minister of Education, and
teacher Awirmed to take the students to these two countries in safe. For this short
period, ISdorj was appointed temporarily as the Minister of Education. When minister
Erdenebatxan arrived from Germany and France on 25 November, he reported the
following to the Government on 30 December 1926: “... The nomination of Dem¢ig
Buddari (citizen of Cagan Ow, Dornod) studying in Berlin, Germany as head of the
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