Show GET KNOWLEDGE OF COUNTRY japanese school children go on out ings inge as a part of their system of education in japan beyond nil all other the whole world goes coe outing wherever the traveler cr wanders lie meets crowds of 0 people on tile the highways frederick starr writes these people full fall into throe well marked classes everywhere one ne stes sees school children on excursion there may be halt ft dozen with one teacher iier or there may be hundreds with walh their tenc liers they are out to view tile hie landscape to see ee places famous in the national history to visit tile the scenes neilt of old legends to in detail ilia various proc estien sos of 0 art industries it Is considered cond derod ns its important a part of the school curriculum that the children should mould see things and become acquaint rd ed with nature with national history lil story and with practical sources of wealth BS as it Is that hint they should know arlia limnetic line tic grammar ero inmar or history they are out for an hour it a day a week or it a vac atlea period when I 1 first visited I 1 met agrout a croup of 40 school boys with two teachers who imd had ill al ready been two weeks on their ex cn curaton and had soon seen ninny litany interesting things on their way to tho the exposition at fukuoka in tho ilia southern Islan dit tho the night before they had been tray bruyr eling until after midnight and now they hey had before them thein a journey which would keep thern them up until the he early curly hours of tile the although they were so BO tired that they ther could hardly tand they full of enthusiastic anticipation for tho the experiences that lay jay ahead the japanese are ara very wise in making these excursions an important feature of their school sy system s |