Some prefer to regard the home, rather than the Kindergarten as the basis of education and still do not need to be told that hand and eye training is important, though it is not everything.
The real truth is that, desirable as it is that our boys should, if pos. sible, learn a trade, there is actually no opening for them if they do.
In obedience to Mr. Kirk we look round on the dockyards, electric construction companies, factories, ete. and what do we see?
We see thousands of Chinese employed as skilled workmen drawing so many cents a day, supervised by 1a few dozen of foreigners. Where, we ask Mr. Kirk, is he going to find employment for his boys trained solely to handicraft?
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