Bisbee daily review., 1915-07-07
KOREA DIVORCES ITS SCHOOL SYSTEM FROM
 ALL RELIGIOUS SECTS
Director of Foreign Affairs For Government General Declares It is Ordered to Conform to General Regulation.
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 SEOUL July G-M Komatzu. di- rector of the foreign aHairs bureau of the government general does not agree with American missionaries that the new educational regulations, recently effective in Korea, are tanta- mount Co a separation of education and religion in the schools The prin- cipal object of the legislation, he re- gently told a correspondent of the As s0ciated Press, was 10 apply to pu- yate schools, including 47O mission schools, the general principles Of na- tioual education which are enforced upon government institutions, so that all institutions, whether governmental or private. shall cooperate to promote the general education of the people
 "This', he said means that private schools shall adopt the curriculum and subjects of study arranged for the governmental schools No religi- ous study is included in inc new eur ricuIum; merely the teaching of morals. Of course the mission schools will be effected more than the other private schools, but inasmuch as the mission schools were established to du an educational need and that need no longer exists, the missionar- ies can now expend the funds hilh- erto appropriated for education to the direct propaganda of religion by i'm creasing the number Of churches ana establishing additional Sunday schools and Bible societies.'
 Rev F. Heron smith og Seoul has explained the new regulations, ten years of grace havin gbeen granted in which to comply with them. by say ing that the mission schools may still be conducted but their teachers must not teach religion in them The new rules, he added affected mission schools also in that all teachers in the elementary schools must have licenses from the government and that such licenses can be secured on- ly after the teachers have passed eN- aminations in morals, the national language, history and other studies
 Dr. Smith concludes his study of the new regulations by saying that they will be accepted and an honest at tempt made to obey them He adds. "The hope that that part which forbids religious teaching in mission schools may Dc reslnded v,l le shared by all the Christians and truly progress i've people in the Japanese Empire"
 Writing in the Japan Evangelist Dr. Smith expresses the opinion that . it is the policy of the government to Japauicize the Koreans and that the government realizes that this must ! largely be done in the schools. He quotes Governor Terauchi as saying: "The ways and means by which civili- zation can be advanced and the foun. datiou of a state consolidated are not ] limited in number but the most impor taut thereof is. without doubt, the education of the rising generation Il ! is also @ fact that it is difficult if not impossible for the missionaries who have supervision of the private schools and the Koreans who have ] charge or the prlNate secular school' ] to Japanicize their pupils even ii they are anxious to do so. They are per Y mcated with the spirit and ideals O. their own civilization. and they un
 consciously transmit them to thei
 pupils. Nor are these teachers for eimers and Koreans, always filled
 with admiration for the Japanese"
 Several missionaries are quoted ii
 newspapers as fayoring the establish ment of Sunday Schools instead O common schools because all the peopl might be invited on Sunday while on l Fly Christian converts were likely to al tend Che mission schools. They agree with Mr. Komatzu that the misslo boards were obliged to establis ' schools for elementary education b'
 cause the former government had DC
 done GO.