The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-05

seven. At the lated g they enter
the second grade primary schools,
where a fiVe-year course IS taken, and
then the first grade primary for q
fOur-ycar course. In these schools
they are taught the reading and writ
ing of the Chinese characters and
they begin arithmetic, history and
geography. IN the first stages Of
their instruction, h children study out
loud, cut instead OF sitting on the
floor and swayinS back ard forth, each
shouting for himself. as in the past.
they now sit on benches and read to-
gether with of them as their
leader.
After the primary is passed. the STU
dents e2tcr the grammar or interme-
date grades. Hero they studE chi
nese, foreign languages. mathematics,
geography and history, and also the
natural sciences. ethics and drawing.
In some schools there are courses in
law and political economy. II most
of these schools, are, as Yet, not far
advanced; but there are something like
ten thousand students attending hem
in Picking alone, aud Of them four or
five thousand are ManchUs. The Man
chus have u Mobiles School for the
sons Of high officials who are being
prepared for further education broad
This school has now two hundred stu
dents.
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primary schools, they are being estab-
lished by the thousand. DR.. G. L.
Tennery, who organized the middle
schools Of this province several years
ago, then instituted over twenty-seVcn
hundred, with something like eighty
six thousand students, and there are
probably one-third more than That
number today This was for the pro-
vince Of Pechihli. in which Picking is
situated. A similar work is being
more gradually done in each of the
other twonty-odd provisions of the
Chinese empire.
High schools and normal schools are
now to be found everywhere. Accord
ing to h regulation, every town and
city has to maintain one. and every
provincial capital must have a normal
school of the first grade. These schools
are all equipped With chemical, physical
and botanical laboratories. and in
some of the cities, such as Tientsin,
there are also museums
where models and books dcscribin. the
teaching in foreign countries, are ex-
hibited. The normal schools are
to fit themselves for work along the
lines of the new development.
Chinese Students Abroad.
Many such went to Japan at the
time the movement was started, stayed
there q year or SO and have come
back to take their places in the new
education. During my stay in Tokio
last year. | found something like 5000
Chinese students in the colleges there.
Some were in the Imperial University,
some in the teachers training schools
and others in the military and techni-
cal choOls and in the schools for
railway engineering. Not a few were
studying law and medicine, and some
politics.. economies. history and litera-
ture. About One-fifth OF the whole
We're in the teachers training schools.
and they were largely made up OF
men who had stood high in the classes
and who expected to come back to
China to each.
l am told that thousands of the
"literati' went to Japan at the time it
was decided by the to
open up China to the new education,
and that especially because the gov
eminent a said that it would give
the preference to literary graduates
who had such Instruction in the selec-
ton of it's teachers for its new schools.
On this account, 10,OOO went there at
once and enrolled themselves. The
most Of them stayed less than six
months and then came back to teach.
Nearly all have received appointments
and are now acting as professors. They
are not fitted for the higher branches