Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-22 | Page 20 | Japs Ousting Hun Education

JAPS OUSTING HUN Hill Professor Noguchi Says Nipponese Are Adopting U. S. System. j Since t lie outbreak of the world war there haa been a strong movement among the universities of Japan to replace tho German system of education which has long prevailed In the land of NlDpon, by tho methods used in the American Institution In-stitution of learning, said Tpnc Nogucli, professor of literature In 'the University of Keio. at ToklO. ProfcMfor Noguchi Is on his way to Chicago, wberfl he will i deliver a series of lectures under the direction di-rection of the Jones Park lyceum bureau. "Japanese students ' professor Noguch said, "are eager to learn western ways, and they like the American plan of granting grant-ing liberty In the pursuit 6f ttiucatlon. They have learned from 1 he I'niied States the principles of freedom, and that without a strong sense of tnoKldUAUty nothing worth while can he dom.. They have oecn dominated by the autocratic German ine'.hoJs long enough and welcome wel-come the heU.r principles thai, the American Amer-ican unlversitien have taught thrU "The professors in many of the lnstl-t lnstl-t utlons have received i heir education In tho leading universities of the Knltcd Htntes, and there Is an Increasing number of American professors being employed. Japan is studying the American plincl-nles plincl-nles of government, and, wtttle It will be somo tint': before the old preudlcea can overcome, democrat!' Ideas arc rapidly gaining ground In the country. "Desire for education has affecu-d th masses and they have lost, their former meekness. At the Institution With which I am connected more than KOOQ students are in attendance, .md the larger number of them are drawn from the common classes. CUUM dintlnctlon Is still strong, but It Is breaking, ,"T,'ck of an alphabet Is the niggent druvtbaek to education In Japan. It lakes so long to learn the characters neeessnry for writing that tho people have llttl" lime for anything cine. Hut even this Is beltnr overcomo by a tmcement t hat 1 rapidly gaining ground fur the adoption of the ll mien letters for the ofpte10n of Japaneee words. The ohlef drawback to the movement l the lack of a uniform orthography, but this Cflll be OVOrCODIQ b ti issuing of an official itandard diction arv. "iQngllsli is required for ontranen ti all tin collegre. and mosl of tho technical courses ar tsogi.i in that Inugue. There ar fe w tra nsla t Ions of technical r 111-erary 111-erary works. Imt (bis wll probably be overcome when ,m alphabet Is adoptr-d,"