From "Shahreza Mashhad High School" to "Mamazan School of Education" A look at the life and services of Dr. Mohammad-Amir Birjandi

"Mohammad Amir Khan Birjandi" was born in 1901 in "Birjand". Shortly after his birth, he moved to Tehran, where he studied and later taught at the "American College". Then, he accepted the adminisration of "Shahreza" high school in Mashhad. He went for the University of Wisconsin to complete his postgraduate studies at fiftteen years old. After returning. He took on various responsibilities, including "Managing Director of Bongah e Omran", "Deputy Minister of Education" and "Head of Mamazan School of Education". He performed valuable services in each of the responsibilities. In education, he carried out innovative activities such as "organizing school physical education programs", "promoting extracurricular activities", "forming debate groups and student sport teams" and "linking between teachers and parents. In the field of rural development, he fulfilled constructive activities such as "Presence in villages and efforts to improve the level of education and health of villagers", "Establishment of a rural teacher training center", implementation of "Fight against illiteracy plan", "Education corps plan" and Finally, "Training the students of the education corps and sending them abroad". These activities made him one of the pioneers of "modern schooling" and "rural development" in the country. The present article has been compiled with the aim of describing his life and services in the framework of biography method and Interview with informed participants.