The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-02-16


system Of public education have been
borrowed from Western nations
from Germany. from the United States
and particularly from France-but in
combining those detached parts the
government has shown the same gen.
ius for organization and direction as
in the creation and control of its army /
snd navy. Thus the superior council /
OF education. which plays an import
ant part IN the administration Of that |
interest. is modelled on the French se- |
fcrior council but unlike the latter.
its membership includes the chiefs Of
other administrative bureaus, so that
education is directed in full view OF
the interests Of the commerce, of the
agriculture aad the internal economy
Of the kingdom. SO Also IA respect to
manual training, which has great rec
ognition in Japan though the general
idea and method are copied from the
West. there Is no servile imitation in
respect either to the tools employed
OF the exercises followed. Only that
Is taken which can be skillfully adapt.
ed to native conditions and demands.
The system Of education is thoroughly
and carefully supervised.
The minister makes frequent inspec-
ticn tours for tha purpose Of seeing
for himself the manner in which the
education laws are carried OUT, and
specialists from TOXIC University, the
higher normal schools. etc. are from
time to thao gent our 20 report upon
tho manner in which their special
subjects are taught, and to suggest
improvements in the methods Of
standards. These tours are quite iade-
pendent cf the regular in' pecticn SER
Vice. which IL intrusted 20 men Of ap-
proved qualification and distinguished
rank. who are held to strict account
for the discharge Of their duties.
Education is compulsory for child.
ren between the ages If 6 aad IA
years. or until a prescribed course Of
study is complettl, which may ba
done In four years. Foll3wing this
Knitted course Of the ordinary elemen-
tsry school. which includes morals,
.he japanese language. arithmetic and
gymnastics, with choice of one o.
mere su5iects-drawing singing. man
nal work for girls, sewing according
to local conditions, there is a higher
elementary school course extending
over two or three or four years. The
total number OF elementary schools
reported for 1902 was 27,llO, the num-
Der Of teachers employed in them
| 102, zoe. an1 The number Of pupils en-
rolled 4.9S0,GO4 AS the total number
of children of legal school age was
7,40s,179 1t win be seen that ihe en-
lolment was equivalent to 67 per
cent of the school population. For the
training of teachers for the element
sry schools the government maintains
ffty-four uormal schools, having, In
1902 1882 teachers and 1882 stu
dents. and two higher normal schools
having us teachers and $50 students
Whue me government has been
thus steadily extending the means Of
popular education. 1t has made liberal
provision for higher education. includ
ing under that term the very ampl,
provision for general culture and re
search in two imperial universities ant
H. special schools intended 70 prepare
yperts for the service of the state
There are eight of these schools sup
ported b. the government and under
Tho charge OF the Minister of Publi'
instruction OF which Ave are school
o. medicine. and the remainder a
follows The Toxic Foreign Ian
auage school the Toxic Fine Arr
school and the Toxic academy o
Music. Besides tho government spec
lal schools. there are folu public an
forly-nye private schools OF simila
character The University Of Toki
! Includes Ia the facilities in Westeri
universities except theology Tn
College of Science AMI Engineerln
. .as ample equipment Tor instruction
. IN chemistry, pure and applied; j
{ mining nnd metallurgy, in civil ms
I chanical and electrical engineering
) The nine technical schools supporte
BY the government include the sapp'
D no Agricultural School. the Highe
i. Commercial Schools and three inst
I tutes for the training of technics
Y teachers.
a II is worthy OF note that wherea
twenty ave years ago Japan depende
e almost entirely upon foreign countrie
. for its sipply Of professors and teacl
G crs, Il Is now able to recruit the teacl
2 ing service from the native scholar
I The number OF foreign instructors r
: PORTED in government schools in 1916
4 vss sixty-eight. Of whom the Unite
y States furnished twelve, England a
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