The Archive · 1905

The Schoolmaster

lig abroad in the land, and the de: for Western learning still continues One marked feature of the change that has lately come is the number of mon and boys wearing uniforms made after European style, but of cotton cloth and of various colours. The long gown seems doomed in the near future. Peace be to it and to the self-satisfied scholar it covered in the past! The present goneration of scholars are groping after the new and clinging to the old, end realise thet there 18 something to be leaned not found in the Four Books and Five Olsssics. But whilst the teachers of the new schools use opium and go in for gambling, there is not much hope of real reform, Chins wants a moral

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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