Show GET KNOWLEDGE OF COUNTRY japanese school children go on out ings inga as a part of their system of education in japan beyond nil all other lindith whole world goes outing wherever the traveler wanders he meets crowd of people on the highways F rederick frederick starr writes these people tall fall into three well marked classes avei baher one ona sees school children on excursion there be half dozen may a with one on teacher or there may be hundreds hundred win their teachers they are out to view the landscape to see places famous ta la the national history to visit the scenes scena of old legends to examine in detail the various processes of art industries it Is considered as important a part of 0 the school curriculum that the chil children drea should see things and become acquainted with nature with national history and with practical sources ot of wealth as it t Is that they should know arlt ariefe betle grammar or history they are ar out for an hour a day a week or a vacation period when I 1 first visited I 1 met a group of 40 ached boys with two teachers who had already been two weeks on their excursion and had bad seen many interesting things on their way to the at fukuoka in the southern islands the night before they had been traveling until after midnight and now im they had before them a journey which would keep them up until the early hours of the morning although they were so tired that they could hardly stand they were full of enthusiastic anticipation for the experiences till that lay ahead the japanese are very wise in making these excursions ai important feature of their school byg i tern tem |