During the past month a revolution m elementary education has been attempted in Wuchang: The authorities are realising that educational reform if it is to be eff must begin at the beginning and that it is waste of money and waste of energy to open colleges and institute examinations unless the teaching in the elementary schools 1s improved.
teachers in the city were startled some time ago by the announcement that all private schools were to be closed and in their place the government would open sixty others. On the twentieth of the Chinese month all former teachers were ordered to present themselves for examination. Those who passed examination would be employed at salaries of from $10 to $16 a month, but no opium smokers would be engaged. Those teachers who failed to pass the examination but whose work was of a high order would be sent to a normal school, those who failed completely would have to seek some other means of livelihood. Old teachers, as they would be too old to learn new methods, would have work given to them by the government.
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