New Britain herald., 1918-02-23

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 equipped toA&4 s-- sions Since yfYe BN. &l |1.. l[1 1l8 9H8f61gny intercourse we have bed beaten too many times to realize that the vest Crn nations have the 1Aore effective way of controlling the material world, and we are now convinced that 1t Is necessary to change our educational methods on the material side in order to keep pace.
 JeS,IitS First to Arrive.
 "Of course western education be- gan to come to us before we realized our need of it. The Jesuits were the first to come They appeared at the beginning of the Tsing dynasty bring ing with them the knowledge of as tronomy With their help we estab- lished the Imperial Bureau of Astron- omy. which has published the Chinese Almanac for more than 200 years. Gradually other sciences, such as chemistry and physics, were intro duced The next great change was about forty years ago when the gov ernment started Schools in Peking and Eoochow for the purpose Of tralnlng young Chinese for the army and navy and for diplomatic service. The study of the old classics was still the pre- yailing mode of education, and even in T6lS new 0SpdI lure Ol LllC SCNSAA III ment schools the old system of exam nations was still retained to a large extent. I may call this period the par allel of the old and new systems of rducat tion. But in 1900 the old Sys- tenn was given up altogether and mod crn schools were established all over the country.
 "China's two great needs in educa- tion are for the development of 1nl- tiative and enforcement of discipline. The former need grew out Of the tact that for centuries the family was the social unit in China. The head of the family was supreme, and every mem- Der learned obedience first of all. It is a trait that has been instilled into the Chinese at the sacrifice of initia- tive AS to the second need, in the days of emperors the only real re- quirement of a good citizen was that he pay his taxes. That duty done, he could acquit himself for the most part as he saw fit. Discipline was, there fore, lax, and the Chinese became rather easygoing. One of the greatest problems that modern education in China has to solve is how to lnsdll these two seemingly contradictory qualities in the coming generation.
 "My last trip around the world in search of the educational system that would best meet China S needs brought me to the conclusion that the two ne cessary clements are to be found in the systems of the American, English and French on the one hand, and the Japanese and Germans on the other For the former is essentially planned for the development of the individ dual and the latter, autocratic in charac- ter. is for the building of leaders and al oiy1iy, n followers inc eXDO- nent of discipline. My school at Nan Kai is therefore, patterned mainly or these two systems, although it has also good features of the systems of other countries. In fact, l call my plan chop suey' system of educa- ton.
 1T believe that at present the most important thing for China is unity and in order to be unified we ought te have a common bond. That bond can not be racial because we are composed of so many races; it cannot be relig ious because we have many religious it cannot be social because, a. in all countries, we have we have learned to think in terms O so many divergent social interests. l s,eems to me the logical bond Is pa 4riottsm. a natural outgrowth of Wha has been the very fiber of the Chimes nation through the ages-hilal plety In olden days all the virtues Wcr measured in terms of filial piety. IL who acquitted himself most braVely l: lAattIe was accounted the most hila son In these days, however, "hel we have learned to thing Tn terms our nation rather than our family, th1 fiial piety should manifest ltselt a loyalty to country, and iE this patf1oI ism q common bond should spring III among Chinese of the north, of tn south, of the east and of the west Our schools should teach the strengtl of national unity but further tha1 that we must make our Chinese boy not only good citizens of China, but o the world. The day of national iso latlon Is over, and we must think an teach our young men to be interna tionally minded, as Dr. Butler, of Co lnrnhia, puts it.
 Support Of Schools.
 In reply to a question as 70 ho, Ehina's schools are supported, M Chang said:
 "As you know China iS divided int provinces and each province is divide again info districts. The districts a'