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Relations with Education in Great Britain. There is, it is admitted, a certain current of opinion in favour of the education in Great Britain itself of Chinese students who desire to profit by British educational methods-a course in favour of which very striking American precedents can be cited. There is, however, reason to believe that the current of opinion amongst the resident British Community in China is setting definitely in the contrary direction, while American educationalists are feeling anxiety as to the inability of large numbers of returned students to 1ake their place in an ordered Chinese life. As to the anxieties of many parents there can be no doubt. quote the words used in a recent Memorandum by Sir Frederick Lugard (to whose initiative the institution of the University was largely due):-"Chinese parents complained that their sons by being educated in Europe and America, become denationalized, and on their return were often found to look with con- tempt on the methods of life and the principles which their fathers held in reverence. 29
The view represent- ed by the Hongkong University is that it is a mistake for a student, at the age at which he first begins to face the serious problems of life, to be entirely separated from the world in which he has grown up and in which his life must be passed. On the other hand, the apparatus of highly specialized learning is too costly for indefinite re-duplication, and nothing but good can come from sending selected students, of character already formed, for advanced stuly in Europe. For this purpose the University is affiliated
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