Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-09
SCHOOLS IN ORIENTAL LANDS
Education There s Devoted Maintaining Things as Witch Western Educational Ideas Which Look Towards the Future

The English Language a Great Gift.
 The great gift to these people is the
 English language. For the English language is the result of Anglo-Saxon
 thought and gives them English con
 captions of truth, freedom, justice.
 bound in time to undermine the caste system. The study of Mills Tenny- son, Burke, gives them the benefit of 1,500 years of thought unlike theirs.
 They find the word sin does not mean ceremonial; purity, cleasing with water; God, dancing image. One
 hundred years of this has transform ed their outlook and the results are felt everywhere, both for good and bad. Education has been too much the caused unrest. Their crude, untrained minds are not ready for such political training as 1t has taken England 1000 years to attains It develops hair brained fanatics who are neither east nor west or any good in either India, too, needs industrial education as a country where efficiency in labor is unknown, because there is no intelli- gence used in labor. Carrying fads to a static race only creates a bewil- dered people India is wandering be- tween two worlds and the problem is to reconstruct her education.
 China's Democratic Atmosphere. Going from India to China seems like getting out of prison In China there is no caste-no yelled women. The atmosphere IS democratic and the
 reverence for scholarship is unique ship perhaps. Two poles in front of any house means that someone in the family has taken the degree of A. M. The most impressive sight in China to President Faunce was the view of the old government examination halls at "a or4lrfra0 000 of cells where men were shut in for nine days to show what they knew of the classics of 1000 years. The abolition of all this by the empress dowager
 marked an intellectual revolution such
 as the world had never seen before. Eager About American Schools. President Fauuce told of speaking 10 government school students at the
 r. M.- c. A. and their eagerness to
 hear about American schools. Many joined the Bible classes-not to be-
 come Christians, but to learn the se-
 cret of western power and civilization. Their eagernesS is pathetic. The Chi
 nese language is an impeachment to learning. They have no alphabet It
 is really picture writing. Another is the difference in language in various
 parts of the country and the ignorance
 of what is going on which makes no.
 national mind possible. There is
 great need of schools for girls. For
 merly the standard length for wom- ans foot was 1-2 inches. Athletic
 sports are helping to free the minds of the boys.
 He spoke of the heroes of education in China, Dr.. Mary Stone and Dr. Mar
 tin. He compared the Chinese to the
 Romans and the Japanese to. the
 Greeks of ancient times. China is
 sound and wholesome and in the tenth. century was the most civilized nation. The old is going, society is. breaking up and the great danger is that the
 old will go before the new is ready. The maxirns of Fonfucius are being
 swept away. Will there be be others as good to take their place.? Alfred
 Moves poem beginning, The spirit that moved upon the deep, sums up the
 question. Our duty is to furnish them with leadership. We give them. ma-t terial things. They need our ideals as well. Our two best monuments,
 Faith, at Plymouth, and Liberty, at
 New York. are the symbols. of what
 we should give them