Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-11

education demands modern school
buildings, and the old Chinese classics
must take a back seat.
Today modern schoolhouses are
springing up in different parts of Nam
king. The city has already so schools
run by the government IT has several
large kindergartens and many primary
and secondary schools. 1t has a normal
college with 500 students. polytechnic
school with 220 and industrial schools
of various kinds. In all the schools
gymnaSiumS have been established. and
the boys drill several days every week.
The viceroy has planned an athletic
park. where school meets will be held
once n year. and the various teams Will
compete in sprintlng, jumping. pole
vaulting and other athletic sports. Sew
eral such events have already been
hcld. and they were witnessed by thou
sands Of Chinese of all classes.
CO-EDUCATIO'N IN CHINA
Among the new school movements 60
ing on here is the beginning OF Il CO.
educational system. His excellency.
Tuan Fang, the viceroy. believes that
boys and girls should be educated to-
gether, and he has established such
school in his palace. 1t has now about
30 pupils, taken from the children of
high class families The little ones
range In age from 10 to IA; and they
are being educated, as it were, under
the viceroy'S eye. Their course covers
four years. and after which they will go
TO the hign schools outside. 1t Is a
combination of the Chinese classics and
the studies of our public schools. The
most of the teachers are Chinese. the
professor of Chinese literature being 4
inc ,trx- Of L.,
ting comes from Japan. The male
teachers are Chinese and foreigners.
TAUGHT BY OUTSIDERS.
In the other schools of Marking
number OF foreigners arc employed. One
of the government high schools has
three American teachers, and others
are conducted by Germans and Japa-
nese The commercial academy has
several foreign professors. and among
them an American, who has charge OF
the classes in banking and commerce
There are foreign instructors In the
naval and military schools, and also in
the Industrial schools and those where
tho modern languages are taught. Inc
naval college here has been in existence
for 10 years or more, and IT now mas
about a dozen professors, including
dred students, who are educated some-
what after the same methods as our
cadets at Annapolis They live at the
college and receive pay for going to
school.
The most of the teachers In the mill
tnry academy are Chinese who have
been trained in modern tactics Some
nave been educated abroad. The vice
ROY has an army of about $4,000 troops.
and among these arc 1900 who have
been drilled after the modern system
The army IL largely officcred by chi
ncse who have been educated In foreign
military academies. 1t Is armed with
modern guns. and the foreign military
attaches say that 1t would prove an
effective force in time of war.
THEY WANT THE BEST.
In the new army and in their schools
the Chinese are now using many Jap
anese instructors anG drill masters
These Will not last, for most of them
are inefficient. and this is especially so
of the teachers The japanese are arti-
Aclal and in the modern sciences and
school methods are at best but skilfrl
imitators The Chinese are now en-
blowing them because of the similarity
of the two languages, and more es-
pecially on account of their cheapneSS
Their work is not proving good. and
these people. who measure everything
by results. will soon come to appre-
ciatc this. and Will be ready TO pay for
better trained brains
Speaking of the Chinese wanting the
best. Dr. r. c. Beebe, the head of the
great Methodist hospital and school at
Nanl1lng. tells me of an incident which