Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-24

graph and telephone school, a weav.
ing and dying school. supplementary
evening school for technical instruct
Ion attached to the apprentices
school, a nautical school, school for
the blind and dumb, a fishery school.
fine arts school. an academy of mu.
sic, a foreign language school, an in
stitution for the training of commerce
ial teachers connected with the To-
ho higher commercial school. The
Toxic higher chronological school,
which visited, has departments for
dyeing and weaving, ceramics, applied
chemistry, mechanical engineering,
electrical engineering and electrical
chemistry, industrial design, archi-
lecture, with, according to its last
reports, 473 pupils, and far more ap-
plicants than it can accommodate,
from which it aims to turn out fore
men, superintendent, managers and
so forth. To it is attached an appren-
tees school which is giving strictly
trade education to about 1873 younger
boys whose previous training has not
been sufficient for entrance to the
higher school. 1t also has a supple
mentary or evening school, with an
attendance of about 270, all of whom
work during the day, and also an n
stitute for the training of industrial
teachers. The number there, accord
ing to the latest report, was 1923.
There is also college of agriculture
with an institute for the training of
agricultural teachers connected With
it.
Sad Lack of Teachers.
This question of teachers is per-
haps the most serious one connected
with the chronological and commerce
ial schools here, as these teachers are
constantly tempted out into business,
for, SO rapid has been the develop
ment of Japan's commerce and indus
try that there is great scarcity OF
men with technical and commercial
knowledge. found, for instance, the
gas works, which l visited few days
ago, managed by professor. l was
told that fifteen of the professors of
the Higher Neurological School had
entered business during the last few
months. The situation would be seri.
Gus We're it not that many of the pro-
fessors cannot be tempted from the
splendid work they are doing, and al.
SO by the fact that many of the pro-
feSserS have been abroad to study
with government assistance, under a
pledge to teach for a term at least
one year longer than the time during
which they have received such gov
eminent assistance.
This state of affairs will illustrate
the tremendous difficulties the Japan
csc had to overcome. They had not
only had to do the work, but train the
workers, not only to teach, but train
the teachers. While, of course, the ne
cessity of training teachers is COM
mon to all countries, still the rapidity
of the growth of Japan has been such
that the question is far more formid-
able one here than in any other
country that l know of.
The difficulty in teaching in Japan,
too, is enhanced by the great diff
Guilty of the written language. 1t takes
large amount of time and energy on
the part of both teachers and pupil to
give the latter working capital of
reading, and writing. Much more time
has to pc spent on it than in our
western countries, because the writ
ten language consists OF many thous!
ands Of Autographs which must be
slowly memorized. Compare this with
the learning of twenty-six letters in
the west, and some idea of the pre-
liminary difficulty can be had. There
is some talk of adopting the western
letters, but progress must naturally
be slow as it comes in conflict with
the national movement. One must al
so add to the foreign language. Eng
lish, German or French, must be
thoroughly and practically learned if
the student is to have access to the
largest part of the worlds literary
and scientific treasures.
The Imperial University of Toxic
has more than four thousand pupils
and the Toxic Higher Commercial
School eleven hundred pupils, Toxic
Nautical school 42S pupils, Toxic For
eign Language school 1000 pupils and
the Peers and Peeresses' schools each
more than six hundred. There are
ITO elementary schools in Toxic.
Pay of Teachers.
Elementary school salaries are ex-
traordinarily low according to Ameri-
can standards, averaging little less
than $40 per month throughout the
whole city for male and $3.50 for fe-
male teachers in the ordinary schools;
and in the higher schools from $14
for male and little less than $40 for
female teachers, and / find no record
of any salary in these schools above
$50 month. An increase of salaries
has, however, just been ordered by
the Imperial government, which, be