Show schoolboys IN CHINA the lot of th the cell celestial s tw youth tooth it is sot not a desirable one while modern educators are making tho the claim that the youths of today to day aa are aae e held too close to their tasks and mammas find in the confinement of cf the schoolroom the solution for the pallor on their childrens cheeks a knowledge of the course of study pursued by children in china might be of some acome value at the age of five a chinese boy begins his bis schooling at daylight he rises and after dressing as ar quickly as possible he starts to school ire he is given a task and after it is completed he is allowed an hour for brcak breakfast fast again later he has an hour for luncheon but he is at his study nearly 12 hours houra a day seven seren days in the th bep week k all this time when he is not reciting his lessons he is studying aloud at the top of his voice he is under the eye of his master both in school and on his wa way y to and from school the lad is taught rudimentary astronomy physics and natural history but greater stress is P put upon writing and literary studies A thousand letters a poem is the study that forms the backbone of his ferary ite education in it ore are taught the duties of children to parents and all such matters whatever the study may be history classics or science science every lesson is learned and repeated word for word |