boys I observe are very rapidly promoted from one class to another! But I have also observed complaints that boys stay in this School only three or four years and leave before they acquired more than a smattering of English. I am inclined to blame those rapid promotions for the ill complained of. Emulation is very useful, perhaps more so, as talent is distributed even more unequally among Chinese boys than in Europeans, but nevertheless class teaching and oral object lessons in the gallery, imperatively demanded by the peculiar difficulties which the English language offers to Chinese boys, rather than individual teaching is demanded by the nature of the Chinese written language.
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Finally, as to those "mental endowments regarding which Chinese boys are particularly deficient", I have already referred to their shortcomings in the matter of emotion and feeling. Sympathy, as a capability of states of feeling or realizing states different from their own or tendency to reflect the feeling of others, and to cherish a real fellow feeling for others, is the rarest possible thing in China, outside the narrow circle of the family. That a son should be in sympathy with his mother is considered in China an essential feature of filial reverence. "Blood relationship is a strong tie that binds