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Show GET KNOWLEDGE OF COUNTRY Japanese School Children Go on Outings Out-ings aa Part of Their System of Education. In Japan, beyond all other lands, the tvhole world goes outing. Wherever the traveler wanders he meets crowds if people on the highways, Frederick Starr writes. These people fall Into three well marked classes. Everywhere one sees school children on excursion. There may be half a dozen with ona teacher or there may be hundreds with their teachers. They are out to view the landscape, to see places famous In the national history, to visit the seenea of old legends, to examine in detail the various processes of art industries. It Is considered as Important a pnrf of the school curriculum that the children should see things and become acquainted acquaint-ed with nature, with national history and witli practical sources of wealth as it Is that they should know arithmetic, arith-metic, grammar or history. They are out for an hour, a day, a week, or a vacation period. When I first visited Mlyajlma I met a group of 40 school boys with two teachers, who had already al-ready been two weeks on their excursion ex-cursion and had seen many interesting things on their way to the exposition at Fukuoka, in the southern Islands. The night before they had been traveling trav-eling until after midnight and now they had before them a journey which would keep them up until the early hours of the morning; although they wei'e so tired that they could hardly stand they were full of enthusiastic anticipation for the experiences that lay ahead. The Japanese are very wise in making these excursions an Important feature of their school system. |
