Whether the scheme suggested by Professor Gist Gee in our correspondence columns this morning is a practicable one remains to be seen. There certainly seems to be no very great difficulty in its way, none, at all events, which genuine enthusiasm cannot surmount, and no cause is more worthy of enthusistic support than that of education, especially scientific education, in China. It is on the scientific side that the mental equipment of the average Chinese is especially lack. ing. His classics provide him with certain amount of philosophy and with moral ideas of a high standard, while the mere ability to read them trains his memory to ® pitch of excellence far exceeding that reach. ed by the average European. But he does not learn to think until he enters foreign school and only those who have taught him know how extraordinarily feeble his first efforts are.
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