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HONGKONG, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1903.

EDUCATION IN CHINA.

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THE News Freica Prel, contradicts the report of the Insurrectionary movement in Macedonia). of the death of Saravoff (the Bulgarian leader

fight because" alie | raising a loan in

per-cent, for war risks only IT is reported that fo

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Two Japanese naval constructors are going to Shanghai to fit up the Thorndycroft gunboat A CHINAMAN was picked a Samida, which is coming out from London In

pleces.

A NEW free libmry, for Usaka is nearing com pletion. It contains nineteen rooms, which include private reading rooms for the lady

visitors..), far!

IN a wire from London, dated 20th ult it, is asserted that a sharp advance in the price Cardiff coal has taken place in consequence

shipment of sixty thousand tons to Port Arthur, Shanghai and Japan.

Kishu, clingin belonged wrecked

details.

lecicd on the

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the 24th alt but be could give no

MR. J. C. Mone Great Northern

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THE NACRZIJ the Diplomatic Body at

tried at the Shan ly decided that the agreed with the

these two products,the scholat monarch." ~ All knowledge and training is

and society as it exists. neglected and frowned upon which does not

we to describe these two produc conspire to this end. Every.

hur Chinese Scholar, what kind of man || THE" Orenburg-4inilke the rights of the people to an

bave we in him? If a composite picture were opened to passenger- that shall fit them for living and be of rea! benefit to them is discountenanced. Educa- to be made that would represent the average it when trains werd to run as far as Turkestan. - tion exists for the ruler, not for the people, would be of a man with all the natural instincts In contrast with this narrow view and aim of of spontaneily and frank expression repressed, We have already pointed out in previous education in China let's see what concep empty of all practical knowledge and general articles that classical education in China is tion of the subject prevails among educa information, full of bigotry conceit, and faulty in its relations to teachers, pupils, tors in Western lands. Take first a French empty verbiage, without manliness, or capa science, and society. It knows nothing of author, Gabriel Compayré, Deputy, Doctor city, or any aher releeming quality except teaching as a specialty, a profession, a call- of Letters, and Rector of the Academy of a knowledge of a few thousand characters ing It neither inspires nor satisfies in the Poitiers. He says, "From the knowledge of and a few hundred books, a conscienceless, pupil a craving for truth. It makes no effort man, the duality of body and mind, and from characterless being, who, measured by Car to disprove error, establish truth, or add to the diversity of the mental faculties, it fol- lyle's rule of "how much can do lies under the sum total of human knowledge. It lows that education comprises several divi- his hat," must be regarded as a veritable undertakes to educate, not in the interests of sions, which correspond to the essential divi- plgmy, a factor of very limited and some society, hut of a class. It does not recog- sions of the human being." And he quotes times even questionable utility in society. THE Dumber of intending exhibitors in Japan has been found

who have up to date applied for permission to nize the right of society to be instructed, approvingly the words of Laboulaye, another This is one of the products of the much- and so society suffers. The prevailing French educationist, saying, "the end of lauded system of Chinese education A send their goods to the St. Louis World's Fair $5.00 $9.00 spirit of Chinese scholarship is, in its unpro- education is to permit each individual, to system it does indeed appear to be, but as 1,542. The goods to be sent by these,oxhi 11.00 gressiveness, its insincerity, its arrogance; attain the most complete development, of system of stunting and dwarfing and poison-bitors are valued at Y2,303,300,

the direct opposite of what the scholarly his body, mind, and heart" Next take the ing the mind rather than of leading it out Defective as it is the words of an English writer on this subject, imo a natural, wholesome, and vigorous 14.50 spirit should be. 13.50

system is at least better than none at all, but the Rev. Edward Thring, M.A., Head Mas growth. As regards society we and people the narrowness of its application to the needs ter of Uppingham School, late Fellow of living in a primitive fashion, suffering from of society is deplorable. It is admirably King's College, Cambridge. He says, "By the failure to develop their rich country, adapted to the support of despotism; for it the word 'education' is meant the best train from ignorance of the dangers of overcrowd. 20.00 offers the most attractive reward to talent to ing for the young with a view to their after-ing and filth, and from incapacity to com- And again, "Truc education is noth- bine for the prosecution of great public enlist in the service of an absolute govern- life." ment, and it pushes the masses of the people ing less than bringing everything that men enterprises, like sewers, public highways, back into the gloom of hopeless ignorance. have learnt from God, or from experience, water works, and parks. We find a people, The scheme is adapted to train in one directo hear first upon the moral and spiritual by nature intelligent, industrious, law-abid- tion only, and, that is to impress men with being by means of a well-governed societying, and thrifty, ground down and kept from that it proper development of themselves and of the duty of supporting the State and to quali and healthy discipline, so fy them for doing it. It absolutely ignores should love and hate aright, and through their country, with no system of education the educational needs of the private citizen, this, secondly, making the body and intel that aims to ameliorate the condition, or and it knows no claim of woman to the lect perfect, as instruments necessary for render more effective the individual or the tree of knowledge. In the present article carrying on the work of earthly progress combined effort of the mass of the people and we shall call attention to the defectiveness of training the character, the intellect, the body, To see a country going to ruin economically the system in what it promises to do for its each through the means adapted to each." for lack of developing or because of misuse charges, the obligations it assumes for those Finally, hear Nicholas Murray Butler, Ph. of natural resources is pathetic. To see a who undertake to secure an education. D., President of Columbia University, United nation misdirecting the intelligence of a States. After remarking that education.can- single generation of several millions of hu There are manifestly two parties to the educational contract, the system and the not be identified with mere instruction, he man souls is tragic. The thought that both student. The one has something to give'; proceeds to inquire what the term means, of these processes have been going on in the other has something to receive. The and he answers as follows:. "It must mean China for centuries, that they are going on a gradual adjustment to the spiritual posses now and will continue to go on for no one system has an aim. It proposes an end to be secured. There is necessarily a preli- sions of the race. Those possessions may knows how much longer, is overwhelming. iminary conception of the meaning of educa- be variously classified, but they certainly are tion underlying any system as the found at least five-fold. The child is entitled to ation of its superstructure. The key his scientific inheritance, to his literary in- to the Chinese idea of education is to be heritance, to his aesthetic inheritance, to his found in the teaching of the wise men institutional inheritance, and to his religious of the country with regard to the five cardinal inheritance. Without them he cannot be a

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THE Austrian gunboat Aspern left for Kiao- chau yesterday.

Government are being petitioned to advance THE Nou Vremya states that the Russian five and a half million sterling for the recons- traction of the Fastem China Railway's sections that were recently damaged by foods. THE stock of coal now stored for the use of the Russian squadron is thought at Tokyo not to exceed 102,000 tons, A movement is on foot among the great lapanese-mine-owners and Russia at the present juncture. coal-exporters to discontinue the sale of coal to

THE Bouri Gardile urges the Russian Go vernment to acquire some harbour in Corea in order to secure freedom of movement for the Squadrons between Vladivostock and Port Arthur, The Novosti has an article in which it endeavours to demonstrate Japan's inability to raise the funds that would be needful for a war.

(HE› Japanese residents in Fusan, who nom. bered 9,691 at the end of last year, had creased to 11,388 at the end of When the fishermen (about 3,000)

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RETURN of visitor to the Cky Hall Library

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MR. Leung Put Chi, the popular compradors. of the German Bank, in Hongkong, has found 'it imperative to resign his onerous position in favour of a relative of the compradore of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. AM Leung is ern ected with a large number

of business firms in Hongkong,

des being

a director of quite a number of Chlu Banks, The call upon his lime by his own extensive | business compels him to saver Lis connection

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DURING the hearing of a motion for leave to appeal at the Supreme Court this

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Sir W

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the total number of the Japanese will exceed.

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relationships. The possibilities of human truly educated or a cultivated man." It will THE Imperial Parliament has been further United States at Shanghai, and Senior Consul 38801

relationship are supposed to be exhaustively comprehended in those that exist between ruler and inferior, between father and son, between husband and wife, between brothers, and between friends. Of thisized And with regard to the first it may be said that, probably for political reasons, the early commentators transferred the loyalty due from the citizens to the State to the person of the sovereign, and so emphasized this duty as to make it overshadow every other virtue. This impression made on the masses was greatly to the advantage of the ruler. It was perpetuated and strengthened by the Kau t'an required in the presence of the magistrate as the focal representative of the Son of Heaven. Reverence for the supreme ruler inculcated by the teaching of the schools was augmented by the fear of his autocratic power and by the superstition FURNITURE naturally attendant upon his seclusion from

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THE death is reported at Kobe of Mr. W. A Crane, who was born in Singapore in 1833 and went to Japan in 1863.

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MR. Joba Goodson, Consul General for the

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A LONDON wire of 20th ult, statos The Times Moscow correspondent announces the despatch of additional reinforcements to the Far East. from Poltava and other centres,

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THE Colonial Secretary informs us that a telegram has been received from H. B. M. Consul at Batavia to the effect that quaran- tinc restrictions against Hongkong have been

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be observed, that all of these writers com ceive of the aims of education and the duties of the educator as being determined, not by any class interests, but by the constitution of society. In contrast with this, it will be seen that in one single line alone can it be allowed that Chinese education fulfils its charges. It does attempt to make its students acquainted with their literary, in- heritance. And yet even here its exclusive attention to the literature of China is fatal to the broadest culture. Western schools study impartially the literature of all lands, with a view to enriching the minds of their students with the best thought of all man. NOTES to the amount of $1,000 are said to kind in all ages China lays before her have mysteriously disappeared from the cloth student class only her own literature, anding of a certain European in Hongkong For even that with a mark of discredit upon all obvious reasons we refrain from giving the par that does not bear the stamp of remote anti- liculars.. quite or of prescribed interpretation. How A LONDON wire printed in an Australian paper, can even the best literary culture such a states that it is reported at Tientsin that the We are sill doing basin popular view. The schools were compelled system can give be other than narrow, But Chinese leased the gold rights of Wei-Hai-Wei to teach in accordance with the will of the when we consider that every other line of a persoak Be

to Germany before the British occupan despot, and woe betide the unlucky neck culture summarized in the above quotations of the scholar who should dare openly to is utterly neglected, surely we cannot be give a different, more tolerant and sensible charged with pessimism if we declare that interpretation of the utterances of China's hope placed in the present system as capable great sages. Reward lay one way; ruin, of developing a national character that will disgrace, and death the other. It would not make China a blessing and not a curse to the have been difficult to prophesy which way world at large, is entirely without foundation. Chinese scholarship would choose. Nor, We should naturally expect the.defectiveness with this in mind, is it hard to account for the of such a scheme of education to become stereotyped instruction that is given in the glaringly apparent when its results are brought schools. The government has viewed educa-into contact with the results of the broader tion as a tool to be used exclusively for its and more sympathetic culture of Western own purposes. It has never conceived of it lands. The inferiority of China's.

-system is as a means of improving the condition of so conspicuous that it, groaning, brings con- the common people, of making them hap-fessions, from the more thoughtful of her pier, better, or more useful to one another. own scholars. The great Viceroy, Chang As another writer has said, "The object of thi Tung, in bis volume China's Only PHOTOGRAPHIC education in China has been to impress Hope, is led to exclaim-If the filing

upon each successive generation traditional classes conclude to remain befuddled, DEPARTMENT.

ideas and customs, and thus, prepare it to lent, aimless, braggart, useless, iguorant, and take its place naturally in the established not rung; if they elect to continue hopeless- order of society. It does not aim at aly proud, overbearing, silting complacently development of the human faculties-it is in their places whilst the country is going simply a cramming of the memory." And the to pieces and the Holy Religion is being material it crams is simply a series of poli- eradicated, although they may adorn them- tico-moral maximus, which, with the stan- selves with all the regalia of Confucius and dard, stereotyped interpretations, are cal quote long and elegantly from the Classics culated to indoctrinate the people with the although they may compose extended essays idea of reverence for the supreme ruler and on ancient subjects and talk leamedly about the officers is his representatives, and to perpetuate his Moral Philosophy, the whole world will for Ad absolute power. In other words, education ever reproach and revile them is conceived and conducted entirely in the Behold the scapegraces of interests of a system of government and not Confucius. It should be in the interests of the people. In so far as that the Viceroy was pleadi

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