I have only one thing to say to your contributor on the pathetic and picturesque story of the child from the mission school, whose life was sacrificed by the mission school doctor at the request of the mission school head teacher in order that the mission school might get the amount of the grant due on the child's passing an examination.
I think that the doctor and the head teacher should be brought up for murder and I suggest their sphere of action as a field far more deserving of your contributor's attention than Shanghai; further, if he ventures to think that we know no better than to do such things as that in Shanghai his effect on all of us will be such that he can well be spared.
In the second article T see again certain specific charges, either direct or veiled. For instance, we are asked "how many schools in Shanghai possess even one single wall thermometer or baroierer scales or measures to demonstrate to scholars the quantities they learn to juggle with in figures?" My reply is that before asking such question in such an aceusiny, manner the inquirer should go to the schools to find out for himself.
Again, why does your contributor condemn in Shanghai the absurdity of teaching boys to calculate milligrammes without knowing what a milligrammes is, before he has taken the trouble to find out whether this absurdity is practised here?
The statement that any medical visitor to a Shanghai school remarks children seated at the back of the room although with obviously defective vision, is another implication that the local masters and mistresses are not fit for their work.
It is meant to imply that no care is exercised. This is not true, andi.
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