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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1831.

INTERNATIONAL

EDUCATION.

PROF. FORSTER'S ROTARY ADDRESS.

EXCHANGE OF IDEAS.

Gordon (Shanpore).

.hen, our national system has trown, but it is necessary to go ack still further in history and see how we have arrived at our present position.

The Middle Ages.

In the Middle Ages there was no Jucation of nationality. Encl. worker belonged to his craft guld, ach Burgess to his town guild, ach Squiro and Knight to ferarchy, which included Lords, Dukes and Kings, while over ali there was the universal Church. In

nia nebems culture and scholarship! transcended national barriers, such

they were. There was a republic f letters within which scholare were free to range at will. found themselves equally at home Oxford, Paris, Padun, Cordova, Cologne or Orleans, for they shared

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How educational syalems have grown and developed to a poin where they include organized tours to different countries abrongi resulting in more sympathelle con tact with other people tending to adjust the ideas of both siles, wh dealt with by Rotarian Forster Professor of Ederation at Hone Kong University, in delivering ZIT) address at yesterday's Roinry Club luncheon, which was presid.the name theological, philosophie- ed over by the Hon. Mr. S. W. TRO. and scientific interests through the

medium of the common

language, The Chairman welcomed th following visitors,

itors, Rotarians Latin. It is probably true to nay Hutchen

A. I that the scholars of the fourteenth and Mr. R. century were better informed

International matters than scholars Pestonjl (Hongkong), after which he called upon the speaker.

In Europe were fifty years ago, Rotarian Forster, speaking ou Force, however, which had been "Education: It's International gathering strength, finally broke ve chosen to down this cultural unity and re- Aspect," said:--F have speak to this title because it was placed it by States which bore the That aspect of clucation to which hall mark of nationality and which

Attention

tolerated forcibly my

110 rivals in their claims was most drawn on a recent visit to Eng- the allegianes of their sub-

upon In London found the Adject. Now, this new political ar

Committee R Colonial Vanry

rangement had certain advaninges. Education were discussing a qUER= It released, for art and literature. lon of our cultural relation with creative energy which had not China that being the chapter of hitherto been available, and it en- The recent report of the Economic Couraged the expression of thought Mission to the Far East with which in the vernacular, and an linked the ware vitally concerned. Sir loftiest feelings with intelleci and Munn, The Professor of imagination and gave us works of Venuty. England in the London Univer-uusurpassing Education sity, was busy organising his In- would be infinitely poorer without stitute of Education in order to her authorised version of the

Bible bring Landon mors Into the world

and without Shakespeare. schere of education.

France would sidfor a great loss if deprived of Moliere, Racine, and would Cornellle, and the world "uffer also if the schools of paint- inging and music had not found ex-

presudan in national form.

In Warwickshire found the Director of Education calarying upon the important position which the United States wate achie ing for herself in the

informational field. He himself, had recently been lecturing in Columbia Univer sty. In the North of England the Headmaster of a Grammer School was busy organising a three weeks

for lis

senior four in Germany for Corma The latter was concerned shon international education from the standpoint of the League of Nations, but the former three persons or groups, were, I think, concerned about the prestige of Englund.

remem-

Clviation Threatened. Unfortunately there brept Into this system certain evils which later not only threatened its cxis- tence but even civilisation itself. Those evils were intensified at the beginning of the nineteenth cen tur tury when Germany devised a scheme of education whereby the people were to be consolidated into a state, and all their energies were These experiences net me think to be directed exclusively to the maintenance and strengthening of German ing upon the question and the re-

it. It was Fichte, the sult is this paper, in which I at philosopher. who

prepared the tempt to follow out the develop-broad outlines of this scheme after ment and aim of education from the crushing defeat of the Germans Napoleon. the past. It is necessary to do at Jena, at the hands of this in order to understand the post-There now set in a kind of Narcis- tion.

sism on

scale In R-national Europe. Narcissus, you Striking Social Development.

ber, was the youth about whom it One of the most striking-per was prophesied by Teiresins that haps the most striking-social he would live sa long as he did not development in the last fifty years

see the image of his own face. He has been the expansion of and the did see his face mirrored-in a poo! demand for education facilities of clear water, was entranced and throughout the world. Let me died in self-admiration. In this illustrate this point with a re-

scheme of education, history was ference to England. One hundred distorted, and became a national England, as a nation, epic. Literature, religion, and art, spent nuthing on this social ser

were merely instruments created vier: in 1889 the sum £20.000 was

reflect the beauty and grandeur of voted and administered by a Com-the national form. They were mittee of the Privy Connell: in made to subserve the national anda 1870 the statesman, Lowe, intro- and

and not the ends of truth and duced an Education Bill into the

justice. The natural consequences. the splendour House of Commons with the state of enlarging upon ment that the country had no

and achievement of one's own na- tional system

of education. The tion was the tendency to disparage next year the sum of £1,000.000

(Continued on Page 10.) was provided by the Exchequer, while, in 1931, the expenditure on public education reached a total of £80,000,000, a sum equal to the revenue of 1871.

years ago

nu-

If we examine the accounts of the United States of America we shall nl that the growth of expenditure, "in even allowing for a difference population, is still more striking. in democratic countries the view is not now held that happiness for the average man lies in having a full belly and an emply head, but rather the Rotarian view, namely, that a square meal should be rounded off by an intellectual feast. We be lieve that man cannot live by brend alone and that each one is entitled. so far as economic conditions per- mit, to ranch the fullness of his stature, mentally, morally and physically, and to become what he has in him to become. In this way

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