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27.
There are at present but few
age were attending school and it is probable that the number
has more than doubled since.
middle schools and there are four universities (the State Uni-
versity, the Agricultural, the Industrial and the Medical
Universities), taking in 530 students yearly. There are also
a law College and a Civil Service College which have recently
been opened.
70.
taught in the higher grades.
The schools use Government text-books and Japanese is
The text-books emphasize the
import of the founding of the state and its debt to Japan,
revive the teachings of Chinese Bages, and of course promote
knowledge. It goes without saying that critical faculties will
not be developed and the scholar will emerge quite untainted
with foreign ideas.
71. A few students will go on to middle and higher educa-
tion but for the bulk schooling will end with primary education.
But the student's training does not end there. He will have
already belonged to the boys' association fostered by the Con-
cordia Society. He will now join the youths' association and
presently the young men's association and he will be encouraged
to join the youngmen's volunteer defence corps where he will
receive elementary military training. Finally he will become
a full-fledged member of the Concordia Society, wear its uniform
That is to say and play his part as a public-spirited citizen.
It that he will do these things, if he follows the right path.
is not compulsory but he will find it pays to do so and in most
cases he will.
72.
Given the right material similar methods have proved
effective elsewhere in welding the population into an automatic
But machine that responds blindly to the demands made of it.
the population of anchoukuo is, to put it mildly, apathetic.
It has no racial memories that can be stirred, no past glories
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