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NEW
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of
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DAY BY DAY THE CHILD MIND
office. The Japaness adventure in Manchuria was advancing steadily from day to day, China's repre- Bentatives In Europe put as brave a face on the matter as they could,
DELIEVE THAT OUR I and the nations of the world re- frained in a marked degree from MAKER IS PREPARING THE
GREAT
IN EDUCATION.
DR. MARIA MONTESSORI, WORLD emphasising the napects of the IN HIS OWN GOOD TIME TO BECOME NATION, BREAKING ONE situation unfavourable to China. ONE
the Into the four
A lecture on Indo-China will bo delivered by Mr. M. Gerondal in the Union Assembly Room of the Univer sity on Tuesday, April 26, at 8.30 p.m.
Mr. J. V. Blood-Smyth, Secretary of the Asia Lands, Ltd., and Mrs. Blood-Smyth have taken up residence at 6, Macdonnell Road, having moved from Repulse Bay.
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M.D., Rome; D. Litt., Durham.
In other methods, and especial-¡not be altered thereby since our thing'
Rome.
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Struck by a bale of paper which many years of work among little forget, or perhaps have Rever Godowns, these ideas. I have no intention torested in understanding things was being unloaded from a steamer, children, is directly opposed to realised, that the child is not a # conlie at the Kowloon named Lnu Tak-kee, was admitted to of guessing at, no desire to probe through the medium of others, but motor force that urges him to hospital yesterday, seriously injured.the thoughts of the children I am bag within him an uncontrollable grasp them for himself, and that only when his mind is allowed to work in its own way can it develop naturally.
a
educating..
A child's intelligence, and the In attempting to alight from Hongkong Hotel bus in Leighton Hill laws of that intelligence are my Road, last night, a Chinese passenger sterious and difficult to decipher: lost his footing and fell, receiving on this point ali oducators agree, head Injuries. He was sent to the but I would go one step further Government Civil Hospital.
and say that not only is the nature
GRADED STIMULI.
These material objects which we
At last the interminable conversa-LANGUAGE, AND WHEN ARMIES AND by in modern methods, educators task is confined to one
consider fundamental-the study periphery, the work of growth.
This explains why the new me- tions in Shanghai pétered out, and NAVIES WILL BE NO LONGER RE are concerned with a matter they and one alone to helping, at the
QUIRED.-General Grant,
of the characteristics of the childthod consists of objects that are theru emerged some sort
mind, one might sny of the paychiscontinually handled. They con- compromise. Mr. Hu Han-min
laws in general which they constitute & material of use in periph retired to Hongkong, Mr. Wangi A
sider should guide them in teach-lerle work, whereas the ordinary Ching-wel went to Nauking. nominal head was found for the
Ing. The principle followed methods aim at penetrating with that one must know in order to the periphery, introducing Government in the person of Mr.
educate, that in teaching we must knowledge, and therefore to this end simplifying the things taught. Lin Sen, and a Foreign Minister
learn. the psychic laws of the child Many still believe that if the un- understand was (after the brief term of Mr.
the old psychology stated folding mind is to
that something great, Eugene Chen) found in Mr. Lo Wen-kan, who has remained per
them.
My own attitude, and the educn.thing, should be presented. to sistently in the background since
tional method I have evolved after it in a very small form, easy
grasp according to our ideas. They his appointment. The whole of this intrigue and reshumlling was, however, without effect in uniting the opinion of the nation. Partini as was the success in achieving unity, it was merely a Kuomintang domestic affair. The large section of the nation which is outside the Mutton Radio-Phonograph Model 30
Kuomintang was still out in the hear the new cold. The new Government
was Spartons. Sparton values still the Party Government.
It seems will have extra appeal.
The next step to bring almost unbelievable that even semblance ul unity
of intelligence a mystery hard to offer to the periphery are there- of tremendous importance, in radio. Sparton, pacemaker
politics was
the calling of
aince by them, instead of furnish- should offer so remarkable
Mr. Percy Younghusband, who has penetrate, but that we should re-fore
ing an idea or the comprehension of combination of basic engineering Loyang conference. Some
something, we furnish the material A SECRET. improvements at present Sparton hundred representative men of all hold the post of Oficial Measurer in nounce the intention of doing so.
embodiment of the Idea-an exten- Canton on Thursday by the morning prices. See these new, super-parties in the nation were invited, Canton for the past 2 years, left
I consider that what happension of this iden over a wide sur- modern instruments in a wide But the scope of the conference hont on Home leave. He anils from
is the child's face so that the child may have the It was Hongkong on Monday by the Calchas, Enjoy range
rnodels,
was carefully restricted.
to join his wife and baby son in within the child
Thus, for example, if we aro to discuss three subjects England. Mr. Younghusband will be secret, a secret which we merlying possibility of work upon it. 'Voice.
means of wiping out the insult missed by his friends and also by the spect. The principle which had been offered the Shameen Sports Club, to whom he has the new method is here, and those
the nation, remedy for present given valuable assistance by acting as who have not gone into the mat teaching something referring to many of League ter are strangely struck by it, for sensation, we give a series of matches. Shameen residents are calamity, and the pacification of the referee in
it seems to them I am setting an raded stimuli. If we want to give something which seems like a com- Mr. J. pleased to welcome back
Cobalacle to knowledge country. A strong group of non- Kuomintang politicians in Shang-flanker who returned to the port on statement that here is a secret mon multiplication table, we give which has to be let alone, ani deconomial, geometrical, painted. hai, numbering among then
that what we have to learn is how and then expressed in digits so that the mind may work upon it alone. Underlying this educu- Hu Shih, demanded as the condi- tion of their attendance the right
Perhaps I can make my meantional apparatus is the fundamer- "Escape," now being shown at the 1o respect this secret. to discuss political and constitu- Queen's Theatre, is quite a good film. tional issues. They hold that the in some respects,, although in the ing clearer if I ask you to cotal principle, that we must offer to opinion of some it lacks a certain sider this problem of the child's the child ideas in a form capable It is an intelligence symbolically in terms of being extended, making them strength of the Nation cannot be tenseness of treatment. mobilised until the Kuomintang American Radio Pictures) produc of a circle. The centre is the in- both clear and vast so that he may surrenders its sole right to control tion, aut in Englund with an all-timate part which is the very es
British east. A Galsworthy play, the sence of individual himself, carry on prolonged work
Through almost universal the Government, and a Constitu-theme is well-known, and the film is and we have no concern with what
excellent acting] tional Government appointed.noteworthy for the This demand is being increasingly of Sir Gerald du Maurier, who the individual comca into touch petition, the saying that curiosity
the whole picture,
have dis- mate by politicianis north of the action is rather apt tor Inge at times, with the outside world, through stimulates a child in his search for Yanglaze; and we note that de indeed, there is a restraint about the senses and movement: the outside things, has almost come to be re- carlosity which urges the child to monstrations against the Kuomin-picture which one hardly expects in world stimulatea him by means of garded as a truism. I
such a study. The settings, especially his senses and he in turn directs cerered, however, that it is not. take in on his own account from
a child tang are reported to have become the Dartmoor countryside, are most his Betivity towards it.
the outside world, since Thus we see that the periphery the order of the day in Peking.refreshing, and there is some humour
of the circle is accessible, since we who has already understood some- This demand, however, was turned introduced here and there.
can see it. We can see the child thing and is therefore no longer down by the Government, with the
choose and express himself b result that of over four hundred
means of activity directed towards the outer world. Upon this con- invited not many more than a hund-
crete material then we can base red attended the conference. The
our educational efforts. Government were, however, not yet out of the wood. When the already small numbers had met and been tabled constituted, a motion was urging that the Kuomintang aban- don its sole right of ordering the Government, and that it make room
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FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1932.
THE KUOMINTANG AND THE NATION
The conference held recently at Loyang to consider the perilous situation in which the nation finds
relief threw into itself
the
is
ernment and defeated.
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That
Dr.
it
set
could be made at all was signif- cant, and indicates that the against government by the Party is very strong.
A few years ago the Kuomintang could carry of its autocracy with some show of popular consent. Its numbers have never been great. Dr. Tyau, in "Two Years of Nation-
Wednesday.
the
CORRESPONDENCE.
Bus Accident.
To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.1
by
the
them.
happens there. At the outer edge. I
WORK WITHIN,
isi
проп
rc-
Hessea that knowledge, begins real curious, simply because he pog- expansive activity. Such a child ig not acting in order to find out Romething, but is carrying on pro- lunged activity by which to streng- then and enlarge his mind.
THE INNER URGE.
I am convinced through my ex- perience of children that it thus we must deal with the child in process of growing, that the Sir have often seen reports real way of mental work for the ous inner urge which causes a child.
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I believe his
J.C.B.
we can accept the manifestations, but our attitude as teachers will
It is essentially some spontane
for a constitutional opposition. This in the local press about bus pas-child is to gather in by means of to act, and it is upon the discovery senger mishaps. These mishaps his sensations and express him- of this principle that the new mo proposal was resisted by the Gov-more often that not happen in self by translating these into ac-thod is based. After curiosity has Kowloon. It is not, in my opinion, tivity, perpetually, like the censo been satisfied, a form of placid ae: the passengers' fauli in alighting loss throb of a heart. In this way tivity starts, and the child becomes before the vehicles stop, but be- he constructs his own mentality, a discoverer. All these are mani- All that we us by the child. He gives and wo cause the conductors are usually and creates for himself an orfestations that have been runde to in a hurry to signal the bus to ganised personality.
of receive them, and I am convinced proceed before the passengers have can perceive of this process a chance to alight.
learning, one and indivisible, is the by thema that the new method is on child's peripheric activity through If some Government Oficial or peripherie part, with its revela-the right track in alding the
external means.
This idea that the periphery in member of the Committee of Kow-tton to us of the work being car Whether or no the child reveals Icon Residents Association would ried on within. take the trouble to travel on these
statement to us this inner work must be the only part of the child's being Синев,
ourselves essential weakness of the present alist China," published in 1930, would be fully confirmed.Yours, matter of indifference; if he does, that is really clear to us and to
which we can address Government in China. The con- gives the total membership
distinguishes the attitude of our teachers, radically from those of
ference
was conceived as an at- 663,779; bat of this total 461⁄2
other methods, for the teachers bo- come servants, not illuminators of tempt to mobilise national opinion were Army and Navy, and 12%
the spirits, Inasmuch as they are In the present crisis. In the event į Overseas members, leaving only
not teachers but helpers, and when It did little but emphasise the dis- 10 or about 207,000 civilian
they have helped the child in the unity of opinion in the country.members. This is not a large num-
way described, respecting the my- her to control the Government of
stery which lies at the contre of Whether as an instrument of union
his being, their work is done. within, or a demonstration against ver 400 millions of people, especi
They have given the child what he the foe, it failed; and it failed ally when it claims the right to
needs to perform his own part. because instead of being the ex-suppress the expression of all other a united opinion. At that time, however, It pression of opinion by Government, it was an attempt by might be said that outside the 4 Party Government to do what membership of the Party there was a large body of public opinion be- only a National Government could
to justify its dominance. It is not impossible tions of peril have contrived aink party differences and form that if then it had devised some
do. Other antions faced by ailua-hind it, such as
to
a National Government. The Kuo-means of expressing opinion within
tration.
to re-
extreme.
its ranks the situation might to mintang resisted the pressure
it to some extent have been saved. As which events made upon forego its premier position and its it is, unless it is prepared to aban- don its doctrinaire position, its acle control. It refused organise itself so as to admit other future becomes uncertain in the The popular backing parties, with the consequence that other parties declined its invita- which it had a few years ago is tion to be present at this demons- rapidly diminishing; its inability to devise a policy at the present moment la causing it to lose pre- It is interesting to 800 with.
atige daily. Yet we can imagine what pertinacity the Party poll-many worse things for China than tfclans are resisting the increas-the continued control of the Kuo- ngly forceful attack on their poni-mintang loaders. Alternative to tion. Much was made of the so-thom are Communism or Reaction. called "pence conference" which move la the direction of constitu- preceded the formation of the pre- tionalism. and mobilisation Hont Government. Weeks of in-those in essential agreement with valuable time were spent in the the revolution, interpreted in a constitutional way, attempt to unite the politicians in liberal and
ព
of
strong Government. General would, or so it appears to the on- Chiang Kai-shek, Dr. C. T. Wang, looker, be a godsend to the coun- Mr. T. V. Soong and their col- try.
longues had been driven
from
"I hope they match those towels we got Inst week in Atlantic City.
INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY,
This is the liberty of the Indivi- dual. The mystery of the child's Inner being Is his secret, and we have to guide him while leaving him free. This is the culminating point of liberty. I believe that if the child continues to act on the Hnes of this method, he will develop Into a man who has built up in liberty an inner world of his own. The child's secret makes for the liberty of the man.
What the mistress has thou to learn is to withdraw in all humil- ity, still remaining passionately, closely and minutely attached to all those external rules and material that can help the child. From this training emerges a new type of teacher who can honestly any "We have discovered what seems a humble path, but which has yield- ed great fruits; for no one had lever found in children such powers and enpaeities as have been seen and verified, contrary to all expec- tation, In our children."
All say, in fact, that our chil- intelligent, dren are precocious, sweet-natured. This is due to tbo fact that they have been allowed to work according to their own nature without any superfluous urging..