Show CHINA SEEKS SEERS WESTERN IDEAS Re Realizes Need of Western Civilization Civilization for Extension of Commerce PLANS MODERN SCHOOLS I Soon SOI Will 1 h he be ns as Easy Kasy Fasy tom for Bu Business BusinessMan Bulnes Man Inn to Transact t nu Business ln's In iii China ChInn us China Is la becoming fully fUl awake to the time fact act that thit her future commercial Importance Import- Import nce anco will wi depend ver very largely on the education edu ducton du cation of oC her people In the Ideas ides of or the theY Y Vest st st. from which so much of oC her trade must mut lJ be drawn The Tho government Ing ng this la Is l making active efforts to es cs- educational methods which will wi ten pen to Its subjects the time paths path of business on U thi tr treading reading of oC which In the time future the ho nation has resolved et mind and the tIme Indica lions lons lons are that In the he very near nar future It I wi will vill be quite as easy tasy for the average business busl- busl ness less man to transact his business In China as al It Is now flOW In iii other foreign lands hands says aya the lie New York Tribune TIme The Peking government o took Us its Is first now educational step Mel tel In 1003 1903 when a commission com coni- mission of oC one and ancl two to t O Chinese hl high l officials appointed to st ll study the situation ant arid and report a as to the time most mOlt teas fens ble lule course for China to pursue Tile The Theold he old method of or conferring literary degrees b by holding biennial and triennial examinations as a means to encourage self edu cation was abolished In lii No Nov UtOn and ancl he time authority to confer degrees d gees Is Ig now vested In the he university and colleges to the he establishment under the lie control of the the government In Peking A board hoart of education education education edu edu- cation cation- has h been PI created to devise means to o introduce Western education and an elaborate system of oC schools of or different nt grades has been established The plan Is Iso isto Isto to o have hav one or more elementary schools In n every e cr magistracy middle schools In prefectures colleges at the capitals ol of he time provinces and ane a university at Peking In n addition additon to normal schools for teachers teacher at points which may bo ue judged advisable in view of oC what Japan has accomplished In n recent years China Is looking to her as am asa ama asa a model and antl for help and antl It has Ie beer been n openly announced 1 by Chinese statesmen that lint their aim is to pattern the university of o Peking after the university lt Education Not r Under the present law of or China ion ton Is 15 not compulsory Chinese boy boym when they hey reach the he age of or seven year ar are eligible to enter elementary elemental schools which are arc divided Into two grades rades tIlt t. t first and antl second with wih five and four tour yea yeal Courses respectively The Tho course In th nr first t. t ga grade e elementary arr sch school o ol Include nc I Am g m nt i t different t subjects moral training Chinese classics Chinese sc literature arithmetic arith arith- meic history geography geol sciences and gymnastic exercises In addition ton to the these l the second class elementary elemental schools In Include In in- chide clude drawing as aa a 0 ninth subject In t Is s given Rl en In these thes schools In the lie mandarin dialect and ancl no forel foreign n lan language Is taught until the th bo boy Is admitted Into the he middle le school schoot The TIme year five curriculum lum luni In lii the lie latter hitter Includes foreign languages languages langu langum- ages which ma may be he Japanese English f. f German French Ul U. or n. n Y t at nt UL UI tho th cho i VIl o i of 31 the ih student C Th The curriculum u m also s i In eludes physics chemistry and amid economy econom After being belne graduated from Crom the middle le school the student can apply appl for Ion slon to college col e. e where In iii three e years h he will be titled fitted ted for lor or the university in which wi specialized courses ot or law medicine ant an sp surgery agriculture literature etc ar ai arc gIven Iven I Is compulsory In the tho col eol the other foreign languages both being elective The courses ns aM n. n planned In iii tl UK tim university represent ent n a high order of or time the theore ore Heal technical and professional In In- In but bUl at H present the he matter has ham hardly gone one beyond the the theoretical stage the state r sIt still sUI lacking apparatus apparatus atus titus and ancl Instructors Instructor Its Is proposed od housing being halls hals converted temples and amid examination How v Schools Arc Supported These Chinese schools are not public schools In the American sense ense The Time matter matter matter mat mat- ter of support is left to the lie officials of the several severa provinces The provincial officials of of- In turn leave It to 10 the he officials of or orthe the he different districts antI and sub districts The Time schools now nov existing In iii line lne with will wih this hula plan of oC education are arc supported largely b by tuition lal paid Pali by hy the pupils lJ by special local taxes by b gifts IHs from Crom wealthy and amid bj by 1 an any ammy other oIlier me means meana s which ma may be ue valuable In some sonic provinces a certain portion of or the general taxes Is J set aside for Cor or the establishment end maln- maln of the lie schools In practically pra oil all al of them however tuition i is charged amid their support Is more or less precarious and ind a ln unsatisfactory No doubt one reason renson why more Chinese students have ha not visited the United States Stales in the last year Is la because of or tIme the restrictions A year yeul ago hundred there here were ere about twenty five Chinese students In Japan and now there There Is is on are an fully ful a thousand more time he the part of oC the lie Chinese officials con- con d. a strongly marked disposition to end emid students who intend studying abroad to o Japan Jalan rather than luau to European coun coun- tries rles or the United States State The anti anti- American fe feeling ln of oC the Ule last ten months has las ins been heen furthered 1 by students more than jy Iy an any other element The business rela- rela lions lons of the United States Slates and China have ha tons been threatened more by this noncommercial noncommercIal non com mercial part of ot the population than by any other The Time result resul of oC the adoption of this his new system of education ought to be bea a 1 constantly Increasing demand for all al lasses classes constanty of foreign forell goods for tor foreign books Instruments and appliances and for machinery of all al kinds Indeed for all al hose thos articles of foreign manufacture which go to make up imp Western estern lon lIon at the present time A general generl d dT- dT l- l mand inand for such hoods goods must not be exacted ex ox- acted In tn a day but the demand Is sure 10 o come In time I |