If educational work in China is worth supporting at all, for the ood of the Chinese or in the inter-ext of future fore certainly important that the foreign educator take his "tip" from Chinese agitator and bear constant in mind that the discipline and anier against which the champions of "legitimate the schools. Secondly, they are rez forced to remain in Mission wchrols if either the studies or the Viseipline ig distasteful to them! and their parents, The whole argument of the anti-Christiang for the and: that every [other feature of educational work should be subordinated to them, while not the slightest suggest of compromise should be made with central of the Mission schools is, in fact, only the usual Russian-inspired Chinese agitator's illogical sever for the expression of a want ind is not an argument, from the Gceidensal point of view, at all.
The Break-down of Discipline The craving indirectly expressed rix this instance, is the further break-down of ie and order m the foreign-controlled schools, that the anarchy in all native educational institutions may not! appear odious by comparison. It purely destructive aspired in Russo-C' the levelling commu ince practically all edu cational effort has run off on mad tangents and the collapse of di. cipline in the educational world has been ax complete as in the military and political fields, the continued existence of well orde foreign schools, standing like isolated forts in the thick of all this anarchy,.where students attend classes, obey rules, behave themselves and pass examinations, on get out, is a standing offence to certain minds. So the elimination om ruin of these schools at once becomes a "legitimate and their control by a Bolshevized, anti-foreign Ministry a "sovereign After the publication of a recent article on chaos in educational circles in the metropolis, the writer was of 0 se subjected here to the usual eriticism—his article was destructive, not constructive." The local edveators think that nunciation of the maladministration the schools should be accompany suggestions for the better management of the same institu tion, In Peking this is too easy. All we need here is a change of Political regime, the assumption authority in the capital by almost any political party which is not in debt to the Bolsheviks, which therefore does not have to sit complacently by and watch the Government colleges being turned into hear gardens by the Reds and which will stand for no nonsense cal interference in domestic oF foreign affairs by ignorant child-Fen under the guidance of paid agitators. The collapse of Feng Vu-hsiang, if it comes, will be the signal for grand house-deal educational circles for which the police have already collected all, the essential information and which men like Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-un know how to direct without any help, oe even suggestions, from the outsider.
The Foreigner's Chance "This gives a direct clue to what! China really needs in the way of education; for it is fairly certain.
White the local situation is therefore comparatively simple and while ation of the Peking
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