This stows precisely how the Japanese idea of education differs fron ours or a Toast from wi one that our system of education:
ko cur children more machines: but the who have s'wliel us and owe educational tein are profowadis convinced at heart th beneath a pr fusion of religi es avd phils pic profess to teach our boys to 1 Tt isa mu mone sometimes to wa'eh the naivete with wu they proceed to fallow on: example. Smiles's "Self Help" 1 the bao's of hare pliced in the hands of their children at an early age, the rewinz used in school are' fait 0? encourazem to gs forth and make money, the: con advice of the teachers i Ta murly places ch won prizes at school have been presented with ass books in the local Post. Oslive Savine rik, containing a few sen to their credit the object being 10 me spirity and again and again Japa papers live anounced triumphantly that such and such a vi the schoo! f children have betwen them no less than s" many yen (generally bon" three thousand), so miny sen and the local Post Office Savings When Count Matsukata returned from Europe recently he declared that the whole strength and power of Europe was built on country; it hes uso extremely greedy for as to feeynestly delve them to prac tices which huave brought the whole country into disrepute; finally it has sawn the see is of corra-tion broadcast in the Lezisnature and in various branches of the public services ~always exe-pring the Army which, being elfic-red by men still posses to some exent the el samurai spirit of contempt for mme, are so fur Vorruption in the State.
Toshi how fur tris rot tins eaten way jute the country T shall examples, one that of the 1 presen atives, the nther th them is notorio: Ly been brough: into seat rel political troubles, "I need your rewlers that the Oppo el the Land Tax Continawion meos of the Government The latter the "Jamin 4 mijorty. The "Jip wen if the Government "tumenats" by ite process of "1 ners. that bank by means be sttlicient tw en tile victory. And what is this **Tiquefa lish" the of buy of bribery is mode Even more di 1 the eorruption of at is known as a subject ad interest in Japan at the To che question few words, every school-baird district in Japan has 'a committee of local notables, w ose function is to make a chvie- of school-boos which have been already approved of by the eectral educational awhorities. It seams in Tosio publishers of school-enaged 10 corrupt these com mittees wholesale with the object, of course, of getting their own books chos- This system of bribery had been la fail swing fur'a long time and the inkling of what was zing on was bro the kuowledz- of the Public Proca by rather an odd Acconling a c-train influential canvasser for important firm of school boo's publishers was robbed of his travelling bag by a thief on dt rail The thief extract-d all the ash in the bag and then threw it away Someb aly picked it up afterwards and haveled it t+ the police, wie were led by som entries ia_a note book contained in the bast the disexsery of the present le"pread +ystem of esrrapion.
facing this lites" scandal as a text, the one of -he leading papers in Toxin, rupt pracives of all kinds ay di 1 to the adoption ial side of sation without the counter acting spiritual side, and to the undermining of the old Japanese code of morals
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