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EDUCATION IN CHINA | more general spread of knowledge very often the Teachers' salaries

SYSTEMS COMPARED.

WHAT OF THE FUTURE?

Forecast.

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than would seem possible among are from three to nine months an illiterate people and leads to a overdue; and thirdly there are comparatively high level of effl-about 850,000 students in Protest- ciency in the art of earning a ant and Roman Catholic Schools. King of the Engineering Depart ment, Royal Naval Yard,

WANTED: living and maintaining the exist

whose death at the Naval ing civilisation. Thus there are

Those figures are all approxim-Hospital was reported yester- four advantages in the old system, ate figures and cannot be regard- day, took

Position by place at Happy

an Englishman Sermon preached by the Rev. it was State Education, it wased as exact. This short review Valley cemetery yesterday after aged 27. Excellent knowledge W. T. Featherstone, M.A., Head-uniform, democratic and practical. furnishes us with some basis for noon, members of the Naval Yard of the East, Ave years travelling.

The Dangers:

a forecast of the future develop and Naval Ordnance Depot staffs India, China, Java, and Siberia

attending.

Man of common sense and adapt- 1. Its Private Nature.--Inment of Education in China.

(1) The future Education will

Amongst those present were ability. What offers. Reply Box A. D, 706 there was revolution in Chinese Education. undoubtedly be supported by the Engineer-Captain E. G. Pallot, No. 651, c/o "China Mail""

Engineer-Lieut. An imperial Edict stated that in Government, it will be democratic D.S.O., R.N.,

While Commander Greathead, Lieut- future the salaries of the teachers and should be practical.

master of the Diocesan Boys' School Hongkong, at St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, on Sunday, June 28, 1925, on Education in

Chinu.

1.-The Advantages inherent in the Chinese system of

Education.

2.The Dangers.......

3.The Future of Chinese

Education.

ceased to support it.

a serious

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would be paid by the pupils and Classical Education tends to a Comdr. Sankey, Messrs. Young. not by the State. The Govern- timid conservatism, Education Harrison, Mitchell and (bearers) ment controlled education after it with inspiration has produced Messrs. Grant, Hollidge, Welch, Private such reformers as Moses, Isaiah, Brock, Whyte, Burden, Newn- education, generally speaking, is Jeremiah, Plato, Paul, Luther, ham, Yallard, Lathan, Clarke, more narrow than State Educa- Calvin, Knox, Bacon, Newton, Magill and Moore. tion, it lessens the respect for the Galileo, and Darwin, and these Floral wreaths were sent from: The Advantages (1) State teacher, it makes the teacher sub-men of streng personality have His Wife and Daughter, Mr. and Education-The old system of ject to the student and the hired received their discipline at the Mrs. J. A. Gibbons, Mr. and Mrs. that all FIRE AND MARINE The Hartfield, Commodore and Mrs. INSURANCE OFFICES will be education in China is the oldest man of his patrons; thus it is great seats of learning. system of Government Education often commercial and for personal hope of China's future rests upon Stirling. Engr.-Capt. E. G. Pallot, CLOSED for the transaction of the adoption, gradually, of the Mr. E. Thompson, Mr. A. E, public business on MONDAY, 3rd known to history. The schools gain. described under the early feudal 2-Corruption.-Early in the opportunity of universal Educa- Prouse, the Subordinate Officers August, 1925. period B.C. 2857-1122 were state Christian era a proclamation was tion maintained partly at Govern- of the Chief Engineers Depart schools. Of these earliest ages made saying that all persons who ment expense and partly by fees ment. Expense Account's staff, or Scholarships. The Leas need Members of the Civil Service Prof. James Legge says Education gave 177 lbs. of rice towards a

The Royal Dockyard's was state conducted. The import- Famine Fund would receive a only be very small for poor Club, ance of generally instructing the Literary Degree; Inter no less people, In England and America Associated Professional Officers' (Hongkong Branch), people was acknowledged even than three ranks of degrees could and in the Far East a great mis- Society before Confucius 550 B. C. It is be bought; later still only those take has been made during the Chief Engineer and Staff, Staff of said in the Book of Rites B. C. who held literary degrees could last fifty years of giving Educa-S.E.E. Department, Members of 1200 That for the purposes of hold political office. This sale of tion too cheaply. Too much has the Gun Mounting Shop Staff, the education among the ancients, degrees and offices has continued been given for nothing, conse- European Staff, Naval Arma villages had their schools, districts to a greater or less extent down quently there has been lack of ment Depôt; the Commissioned Hongkong, 30th July, 1926. their academies, department their to the present day and has been respect and loss of discipline. and W.O.'s Club, Royal Navy, colleges and principalities their one of the prime causes of politi- The Education in China above all C.D.'s Depot, the Imperial Con There things should be practical; it need cert Party, C.C.'s Office Staff, universities. This, so far as we cal corruption in, China. know. was allogether superior to was bound to be official corruption not be compulsory. I would ud- D.R.C., Naval Store Staff (Out- what obtained among the Jews, because officials had to recoup schools where a scholar who is Naval Store Department, and the vocate a system of part-time side Staff), Official Staff of the Persians and Syrians of the same their purchase money,

Subscribers of the China Mail. period. If we may depend upon

doing work could attend for a Technical Officers' Association." these records the schools con-

farmer should not be forced to FEW CHILDREN ESCAPE IT. evening owing to the uncertain short time daily. A prospective

not receiving their paper every tinued to be supported by the state from the Shang dynasty training in Classical literature within the four walls of a class- the years of childhood, can become are invited to notify this office spend the whole of his time

Stomach aches, so inseparable from delivery as the result of the strike and its reverence for institutiona which are old, and, with its know-om. Richa coolies should not quibus bowel disorder if not promptly they would prefer to purchase ledge of the failure of countless be forced to become cheap clerks, Diarrhoes Remedy is safe and depend their paper from the street news- (2) The second advantage was reform schemes, tends, in general poor people who sleep cut of doorable for both children and grown people, boys direct and have the amount

in the hot It immediately relieves rovare intestina credited to their account. the Uniform Curriculum-based to timidity and conservatism. ander verandahs upon the Chinese Classics.

The schools of Egypt rejected weather should not be compelled pain and stops weakening dintrbou..

For sale everywhere. When the Chinese records be- Moses, the Schools of Greece re-

to sleep in stuffy cubicles for the come entirely historical we find jected Socrates, the Schools of good of their health. We should that the multiplication table, the Scribes and Pharisees reject remember that people are gen- Arithmetic, Geometry, the Know-ed Jesus and Paul, the Univer-erally much happier if they are ledge of the properties of the right sities of Europe opposed the left alone and not dragooned so angled triangle and the elements Reformation, the leaders of the of trigonometry were studied. Instruments for calculations, aun dials, and instruments for measur- ing distances were in use. But the principle course of study in the early curriculum was probably the Chinese Classies.

B. ( 1766 10 A... 708.

Chinese Classics.

Confucius B. C. 561-478 made a Compilation of the Chinese Classics which have been used

3.-The third danger is the inherent conservatism of Chinese Education.

Education with its

much.

The Second Hope. The second hope is the intro- duction of Western learning.

Church of Rome forced Galileo to recant, the Universities of France opposed the French Revolution, the University of Oxford rejected Western learning is at hand, a Methodism but nursed the re-mental revolution is already in actionary Anglo-Catholic move progress; but along with Western Science China must preserve the universal industrial training of her children.

ment.

Aristocracy Of Learning. But in no other country has education been so conservative a force as in China. And the exclusive exaltation of the learn-

The third hope and by far the largest hope for China is in religious and Christian education. With regard to religion it has

So

from that day to this and very probably used before that date. We have an impressive testimony to the high estimate in which they ed class which created an aristo-been said that the Teachings of were held in the fact that when cracy of learning has been much Confucius are a Providential the schools ceased to be supported more subtle. insidious and far preparation of China for Chris- by the Government in A. D. 706 reaching and full of corruption tianity even as were the Greek the Classical course of study had than for example, the aristocracy and Roman Ethics and the teach- such a hold upon the people that of blood in Europe and the rising ings of the Old Testament. the private schools continued to aristocracy of wealth in America. we ought to encourage a respect teach them as faithfully as the Thus we see four advantages and for China's Classics along with a Government Schools. It is diff-three dangers. I suppose it is the knowledge of our own Religion. cult to overestimate the value of dangers of which we are thinking, This religion of ours, its idealism, a uniform Curriculum accepted by most to-day, the system of Pri-its purity, its hardness in that it every school in the nation. for vate Education which has bad is hard to live up to its ideals, its about 3,000 years in creating discipline and corruption, and the strength, discipline and spirit is

inherent conservation which pro- what it wants to-day. uniform type of civilisation:

(3) The third advantage was duces stupidity and timidity. In

Wa these Strikes we

see all these its Democratic Character. Wang, the Founder of the Chow things, Dynasty 1122 B. C. ordered that in admitting students to degree no distinction should be made between high and low, rich and poor. His son and heir began his education in a village school. Varations of 45 days were ordered

In A.D. 100 the Chinese knew in order that the land might be prepared for cultivation thus of the procession of the equinoxes.

In A.D. 301 Sun spots were school called allowing students to assist in

of mild form. Agriculture etc. It was also observed.

In B.C. 540 the Chinese had a and thus indiscipline and corrup- democratic in the appointment of

fair knowledge of Botany, medi- tion are encouraged. With all scholars to public officers.

cine and human anatomy.

charity I would say that it would

Practical Character.

Now let us briefly consider the Future of Chinese Education.

To do so we first of all require an insight or knowledge of its history.

Let me mention a few facts.

quieted. Chamberlain's Colic

the ⚫

The almost hopeless mess in which China is to-day is due to the lack of discipline and corruption in the home, in the school and in politics. For exam- ple, small boys are petted and⚫ pampered and often for fear of losing face, upheld against the master or quietly removed to another school for promotion to a higher class or to a class with a higher

College- corruption;

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to

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(4) The fourth advantage waa its practical Character-While the Chinese have deemed a know- ledge of Reading, etc, desirable, In or about 926 A.D. the kindness without any semblance yet they have not deemed it Chinese Classics were printed, of bullying, and that has been essential to send to school a boy that is five hundred years before our attitude in me past, will show who was destined to work on a the Bible was printed.

no weakness, no hesitation and no farm or in a shop. Consequently Between the years 1644 and doubt.. the overwhelming mass of the 1900 China got into touch with Let us pray that there will be Chinese are almost destitute of the West and during the last hup-no need for any very extraordin any scholastic training. This does dred years education was more ary measures and let us, calmly not imply, that the common people widely diffused. The Jesuits and strongly see to it that we, by have no education whatever. Pro- save excellent scientific training, our example in big and smalt fessor Parker writes"We talk and the Protestants and the things will help these three hopes about—"Jack" being a handy man Roman Catholica opened Public of Universal Education, of the he is nothing to the Chinese. The Schools in many parts of China. practical introduction of Western usual exceptions excepted every Since the Chino-Japanese War in Education and of Christian Chinese knows the time without 1894-5 and the Boxer Uprising in Education.

In the 12th Century inoculation earth as well as a Father int for small pox was used.

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a watch; can, at a pinch buy, pre-1900 there has been a pare and cook his own food; wash, impetus to foreign learning.

A couple of ladies are engaged patch, if not make clothes; judge In 1901 an Imperial Decree in "painting portraits," as Rodin the weather; till fields, carry a was Issued about founding once described the occupation of pole, and its load, indicate the Universities, Schools and Village persons depicting absent ones in North, manoeuvre a punt, sail a Schools; unfortunately thiamo amiable fashion. One of these boat, catch fish, saddle a horse, Decree had no resulta and existed artists," referring to a certain tackle animals, walk or ride long on paper only.

acquaintance, and laying on the distances, sleep anywhere at any In 1905 and 1912 Commissions colour with a clothes brush, loud- moment, take no exercise what on Education were appointed. ly explains, to the merriment of ever for any length of time do Since 1905 the Education of the the other passengers in a bus anything, go anywhere." We can Chinese was taken over, nominal- "It is not her hair that ought to see the practical side of education ly, by the Government. From have been bobbed, but her wicked in the small boys working as A.D. 706 to A.D. 1905 China had apprentice craftsmen, painting, relied on Private Schools working in banks as money To-day in Chins you will find changers, etc. Moreover, such several millions of Scholars in a training was under the supervision large number of Private Schools of parents; it was and is often in which, generally – speakday, now a cominon, life in the open there is a great lack of discipline with small opportunity for vice; secondly there are about one and masters and workmen eat together & half millions of scholars in the and discuss problems;all these Chinese Government Schools combined keep the number of where there is able to be indire degenerates down, result in the cipline and corruption and where

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