(6) The Board of Rites have further asked that I put a stop to the new studies ordered to be taught in the provincial colleges, and newly instituted modern schools, and that these institutions be commanded to return to the old regulations—that of giving instructions solely in the Confucian Analects and Ancient Classics. Now the object of these colleges as institutions of learning, is to teach solid and substantial branches of study and not solely old-time books. For instance such subjects as astronomy, geography, military strategy.
athematics, ete., are' modera requirements necessary for the country's welfare, and as such within the province of educated students to acquire. Modern schools do not go beyond the instruction of the solid studies named above and hence differ in name only to the present idea of what
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