Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-09

PRES W. H F. FAUNcE.
 Brown University. Slater. hall was again filled on Mon- day evening for the fourth lecture in the popular lecture course. Like the preceding ones, this lecture was indeed an intellectual treat. and the enthusi- astic way in which they are received shows that they fill a much desired place.
 President Faunce of Brown univer- sity was the. lecturer this time and gave an intensely interesting address Epon Education in the Orient, or From Cairo to Pekin. This was a tale of pr. Faunce's own observations at the other side of the world over a year before the war began.
 Globes Better Than Maps. He spoke of the superiority of using globe rather than maps. We believe what we live in and when we see that other peoples live in the same globe it tends to develop the international mind. The fiat maps do not do this as they are on different pages and of different scales. For 40 million people the map of France comes first-not the state of Maine, as one man thought in every geography it should. For other millions Russia comes first. or India or China.
 This world consciousness is impor- -tant and globes should be in every church and school. The war is com pelling people to think about the other places on the globe as never be- fore. The papers are having to give us news from all the capitals. For naerly it was difficult to get any foreign news in this country or. when one was abroad, to get any news from America. And what one did find one was shamed of. as only the outre. degrading, dis cerdant items were published there. news is help. The ends oflthe earth are drawing together today physically and there will be disastrous results if they do not also do this socially and spiritually.
 The propieu is to match this physi- cal contact with spiritual understand ing and sympathy. The former makes the journey to the Orient today an easy and comfortable one.
 No Hotels in India.
 There are fine hotels everywhere ex- cept in India. Here the English enter tain in their homes or at their club and do not patronize hotels. There is a hotel in Calcutta which is a conahi nation of ostentatiousness and misery. In travelling, every man looks for the the thing he is most interested in and so. though the temples are beautiful as monuments of a ruined past, Dr. Faunce was more interested c in the creation of the future, in the schools tbat are creating the world that is to be.
 Three Glasses of Schools.
 These are of three classes-the na- tive schools which have been un- changed for centuries, the mission schools, and the government schools. Here shows the chasm between the east and west. It was not there in Paul's day or in Roman times, but has been ever since the days of Mo- hammed. ~
 Educational Contrast.
 In the east, education is devoted to maintaining things as they are, to pre- serving the status quo, to adapting oneself to ones environment In the west, education strives to make things as they should be, teaches to over come environment and equip one to solve the problems of the future. This contrast presses upon you everywhere in the Orient.
 Vociferous Learners in Egypt.
 The native country schools in Egypt are mud huts with one door and one window. They can easily be found from their uproar. The teacher sits on a mat in the center. The bright faced boys--never a girl-sitting around him on their mats. have each a reed pen, a sheet of tin and some purple ink. Each writes the separate task assigned him, then memories it by shouting aloud. at the same time sYaying back and forth. These tasks are passages from the Koran. Nothing else is ever taught. The chief reason is that memorizing the Koran exempts one from military service. Mothers even nutilate their children to avoid military service.
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 The FossiIizina Koran.
 And this Koran is fossilizing docu- ment. Even in the great University of Elcazar it is the same. The Koran tion It makes all life accord with uonadic tribe of the seventh century.
 The great need in Egypt today is industrial training, manual training, vocational education. They don't know he use of a wheelbarrow, spade. hove1 or a windmill In a country ' ghere these things are of great use. They also need college near Cairo college like Robert college at Con- stantinople
 lndia,s Caste vs. Schools.
 A weeks journey by the Red sea and Indian ocean brings one to India. The first thing about India is that there is no such country. India is continent rather than a country. 1t is a congeries. of nations, conglomerate which cannot be comprehended by any one person. Here are many races and dialects, 400 native princes and 25 different eastes It is a fascinating, dishaartenings appalling. interesting land. Education means democracy and democracy is not dreamed of in the caste system. From the Brahmins these castes descend to the outcast class. Even in the Methodist college in Delhi, the Brahmin girls are screen ed from the lower seastes by a cur- tain. More impressive even, in the prison in Delhi where are 1000 pris- oners none but Brahmins can cook the food for Brahuin prisoners. But even Brahrnins are trying to make edi1ca-