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27.

There are at present but few

age were attending school and it is probable that the number

has more than doubled since.

middle schools and there are four universities (the State Uni-

versity, the Agricultural, the Industrial and the Medical

Universities), taking in 530 students yearly. There are also

a law College and a Civil Service College which have recently

been opened.

70.

taught in the higher grades.

The schools use Government text-books and Japanese is

The text-books emphasize the

import of the founding of the state and its debt to Japan,

revive the teachings of Chinese Bages, and of course promote

knowledge. It goes without saying that critical faculties will

not be developed and the scholar will emerge quite untainted

with foreign ideas.

71. A few students will go on to middle and higher educa-

tion but for the bulk schooling will end with primary education.

But the student's training does not end there. He will have

already belonged to the boys' association fostered by the Con-

cordia Society. He will now join the youths' association and

presently the young men's association and he will be encouraged

to join the youngmen's volunteer defence corps where he will

receive elementary military training. Finally he will become

a full-fledged member of the Concordia Society, wear its uniform

That is to say and play his part as a public-spirited citizen.

It that he will do these things, if he follows the right path.

is not compulsory but he will find it pays to do so and in most

cases he will.

72.

Given the right material similar methods have proved

effective elsewhere in welding the population into an automatic

But machine that responds blindly to the demands made of it.

the population of anchoukuo is, to put it mildly, apathetic.

It has no racial memories that can be stirred, no past glories

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