The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-21
AN EDUCATOR FROM FORMOSA
AMONG US, TAKING NOTES ON
OUR HIGH SCHOOLS.
Prof. HOMO win Establish on the Island q
Gigantic HlE school After the Ameri-
can Fashion -Four American women
VIII he On the Faculty His Views.

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Gigantic High school After the Ameri-
can Fashion -Four American women
viii ne On the Faculty-Has Views.
Prof. Taichiro HOMO, Inspector Of Edu-
cational Systems, appointed by the For
mosan Government In in New York. He
has been in this country for a month in
speCting, as his card says, all the schools,
especially high schools, in Seattle, Wash,
Washington, D.. c.. Chicago, and other cities
in the West. As the result Of his inspeo-
ton he is going to establish, after he goes
back to Japan, or rather to Formosa, q
gigantic school at the expense OF the For
mosan Government after the fashion OF
the American high schools.
Prof. HOMO was interviewed yesterday
afternoon at the Hotel Empire on Broad
way and Slxty-third street, New York.
He is a short man, as almost all the Japanese
are, but very stoutly built, so stoutly that
IL he had breathed very heavily his coat
button would certainly jump a mile. To
add to the plumpness OF his figure, Prof.
HOMO wears an eyeglass and luxuriantly
grown black whisker and beard, 90 that at
a glance he is a formidable man to deal
with. But in spite Of his sustere appearance
Prof. HOMO is a very modest man..
AS l understand from your card, you
are here in the interest Of the Formossn
education, are you not?' Prof. HOMO was
asked.
Yes he answered, Il have come here
to inspect the educational systems in this
country, with the view TO establishing a
sort Of a high school in Formosa after the
American fashion. So we'll the American
school systems have beer spoken Of in
Japan by those OF our countrymen in japan
who have been to this country that the
Formosan Government saw ft to send me
here. l have already spent a month in
going about this country. ] have visited
Washington, Chicago and other cities in
the West, not to mention Seattle, where I
have landed a month ago. And 1 am going
to stay here a few days to see the chools
in this city. and then I will go to Europe"
is not the education in Formoea under
the supervision Of the educational depart
ment OF JAPAN"
NO, il is not. II is altogether under the
Jurisdiction OF the Formosan Government.
So we are not going to be hsmpered by
any middle school system in the main
lands OF Japan. We are going to establish
a school altogether new. We have already
four American lady teachers in Formosa
hired by our Formosan Government. They
will be on the faculty board. The For
mosan Government is going to spend a
large sum Of money for our school. so that
we can build up quite a large school"
What do you think about the high schools
in this country after you have seen them?"
the professor wa asked.
Well. 1 think they are very nice, es-
pecially as they are giving the students a
more practical education than our middle
school in Japan. am going to Introduce
some Of the manual training systems and
other practical educational systems in u
Formosan high school, After a pause he
continued: There are two things that i'm
pressed me most while I was inspecting the
schools in this country. One is the fact
thai there are more girls than boys in many
Of the high schools l visited. The girls are
getting the same education as the boys.
This is a very striking contrast to our Jap
anese educational system for girls. The
American girls never seem to get the educa-
ton in matters OF housekeeping, how to be
good wives and mothers, a. our Japanese
girls do. l cannot say very much of that
sort OF education. But the principals
| the lady principals-of the high schools
OF this country have their own views about
the matter. And l was astonished to hear
them express their views in the manner
they did, But the professor was inter-
rupted by a peculiar accident that often
happens in conversation from giving out
what the lady principals views were. -The
| other continued the professor, SIS the
fact that the colored boys and girls are being
excluded from the schools which the whites
attend, from some schools l visited. The
question OF race ~prejudices seems to be a
very serious one hat the people Of this
country have to face
JIHEI HAsHIGUCHI.