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Instead of the chorus of shouting which used to greet the
visitor, the characters are now learned quietly while the teacher
ives appropriate explanations and uses blackboard illustrations
to impress the meaning. In the youngest class the children were
playing a most useful game, on approved Montessorian lines. One
child was blindfolded, while & member of the class left the room,
and deveral others changed their seats.
he had to name the one who was missing.
With his eyes now free
The usual kindergarten
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apparatus was present in other forms, and the methods were exactly
what we should expect in a western school.
Algebra and Arithmetic, Geography, Hygiene proceeded on the
same lines, and there was a familiar note about the physical drill
which was taking place in the basket-ball court.
The strains of the Marseillaise were issuing from a classroom,
next to which a building was in course of erection es headquarters
for the Girl Guides.
In the government school for boys the same curriculum was
followed except that, in this case, physics, phemistry and woodwork
were a prominent feature and the open spaces for games were more
numerous because there was greater demand. Confucius and Mencius
in this scheme play minor part in the earlier steges, and not
a
2 very prominent one in the later. Only such passages as are clear
and simple are given in the form of extracts, a fuller study being
postponed to later stages.
Except then for the difference in language the visitor to the
modern Chinese school today whether in the Kindergarten or in the
Middle School finds exactly the same sort of thing that he would
find in a foreign school.
It would be absurd to say that this curriculum is available
in all schools, but it is the curriculum which the Chinese govern-
ment officialy requires and is the system that would be universally
established if there were no obstacles such as absence of modern
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