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INTRODUCTION
This paper does not attempt to prove anything.
It is merely
English and ·
2 statement based on opinion expressed by friends -
Chinese, also on discussions held with my 4th year Education
students, and finally on visits to two or three cities in China.
I have been guided by the aphorism of Confucius, viz. The Superior
man is Catholic and not Partisan; The Ordinary man is Partisan and
not Catholic.
THE FEW CURRICULUM IN CHINA AND THE OLD STUDIES
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By: L. Forster, M.A., Professor of Education, University of Hong Kong.
The violence of a revolution, says Macaulay, is directly
proportionate to the degree of oppression which preceded it.
Its object of course is to get rid of a tyranny, and so there
must be a breach with the past and of necessity an intense hatred
for those elements which are believed to have been the cause of
the troubled backward state. Now the culprit in China was not
apparently a despotic tyrannical ruler who enslaved the people
deprived and ***x*x* them of their wealth but a classical system which
enslaved the intellect and limited the scope of learning. It
is that which is arraigned by young China not for what it did,
but chiefly for what it omitted to do. It sacrificed scientific
research for politico-ethical culture, and at the same time
excluded the majority of the nation, from participating in the
delights of knowledge.
It would seem that the difficulty of the Chinese classical
language was the chicf factor in conserving and maintaining the
old social and political order, before the revolution.
Mastery of it, as the key to the knowledge necessary for
taking part in the government required such a long period of
study and such a power of concentration and memory, that it was
quite impossible for the average individual to arrive at this
position.
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