EDUCATIONAL REFORM IN CHINA

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 49, 21 November 1919, Page 9

EDUCATIONAL REFORM IN CHINA

A NEW POLICY. Dr. Ping Wen Kuo, president of the I National Higher Normal College _of v, China, in an interview with the New York "Outlook," outlines China's new j policy of education. Dr. Kuo says— • ■'The time has coino for China to take a forward step in laying the foundations g of the new Republic. With this end ■ in viow, the commission will investigate the methods employed in tho universi- \ fe, colleges, technical, secondary a,nd elementary schools of America for tho purpose of furnishing similar educational opportunities to the masses in China, at tho expense of tho State. My country has at present only a small percentage of her children enrolled in the public schools, the majority being educated in private academies or by trado guilds, I clans, families or tutors. "Tne committee for the forward movement of education in China consists of the presidents of our six national normal colleges, the counsellors of the Ministry of Education, and tho representatives of the provincial educational associations and assemblies. ■'< Under the Mariohu dynasty education in China was or.e-3ided, tho emphasis being laid almost wholly upon cultural studies. But the new republic,.fully recognising the obligation owed its citizens, will offer to the masses vastly increased opportunities, especially in vocational and ' technical training The programme of this committee is'a progressive one. It injludes:-® "The founding of more universities, normal colleges, and technical institutions; the opening of vocational schools; the education of adults; tho establishment of more'public libraries and play- w ,'rounds, ai'd enooiu-agement by the State j ( )f those who desire to study abroad. "From year to year an increasing num>er of Chinese students have been re- - :eiving their higher education in this ;ountry, tlieso here totalling 1600, while Ireat Britain and France each have only ibout 209. When these l(jOO students •elurn from your shoos to Chinn, they vill cement still more firmly the trndiioual friendship which has existed so ong between my country and the United itatcs. "The reform movements now under way n China are all being led by young men rho have studied in such progressive i ilucational institutions as are found in Imerica. The spread and fermenting E nlluonce of modern thought in China A lave been evidenced recently by the t iwakeiiing of the musses to tho growing £ tionaee ot Japanese aggression. !■' "During the past few years several ducntional commissions from China have isited the United States and the Philiplines, the schools established by tho inierican Government in'the islands of _ he Pacific being regarded by Chines'! "" ducators as models specially worthy of mitatiou and emulation. "Since the establishment of the liepub- - ic China line, made steady progress in aodern education. In 1910 we had only U,OOO schools, with' an enrolment of ,000,000 pupils. To-day China has 130,0(10 diools, with nn attendance of appi-oxi- rj lately 4,500,000. Twu hundred and j hirty normal schools have been founded or tne trainiijg of primary teachers, and hirleen normal colleges for young men nd women preparing to teach in (lie econdary grades. China also bus six «■ niversities, 72 collcge,*, 477 agricultural, ■, ndustrial, and commercial institutions, nd -iijO high schools.'"' A pure, unadulterated jam, made from electcd Teviot apricots—St. Georgv A print Conserve. The luscious fruit gun traight from the orchards to the St. — ieorge kitchen—stones ar; removal, and icst cane sugar added. Try St. Geargo / Ipricot Conserve—a corserve of sound, * iiiblrniished apricels. No wonder the L iavour is so fruity! A;k your grocer!— r ulvt. k ffoods' Great Peppermint Cur», q For Coughs and Colds, nevor fails.—Advt. u