(CHILDREN, To the Editor of the "Nonrm-Ciina Dairy News."
The educational system in Shanghai was very carefully considered by the Committee apinted by the Municipal Coun-and it8 report does not give much support to the plea for more schools for Chinese children. It requires courage, therefore, for an outsider tovofler any criticism. Yet it seems to me that all has not been said in favour of the pi The ajcctions to granting pressed must be a product of cation on" Chinese lines; 3%] would not be. averse to providing the "logical sequence!' to prove that a horse-chestnut is a, chostnut horse, But the sting of the scorpion is in ite tail, It would interesting to: know what ex: actly constitutes education Chinese lines, Yet we ate told the Council "must educate the Chinese, but not on foreign lines. Is it possible we have, forgotten, that conservation of "sovereign rights" demands that Chinese children should he educated by the Chinese Chinese are (1) the Mu ner, no obligation te this respect: (2) the education of foreign children hus not been fully provided for, and they should come first; (3) more Chinese. schools would increase the already heavy burden of taxation.
These objections are certain ery weighty. On the other han sey ati vel "-Now-Ciisa Datiy Nawa, St,—In further discussing the educt, taster damage with "Anti," I will for value of space, concentrate my argument only on the anam issu leaving side inten out entirely for the sake of simplicity, Tam noe attempting to criticize in eho poli Bi ive In el bt ori this time of political" and educational facilities "would mre:
the rudiments of education; Statement "Av this stage increased
"the Sprosd of Bolshevism among the argument is At neduented, it is not pleasant to the present time increased edueathink of Sano children bron Hiunad facilities for Chinese in ing tp in uller ignoqnoce, obliga" tion or no obligation. But there thie city would be dangerous to the community and should, there-an' important consideration, fore, be discouraged. My argu. not wholly disinterested, which ment i At any time, have mot seen mentioned, As 3 Shanghai ras in-any other place, means of permanently influencing fof any people, education is post: the minds of hundreda, of thaw tively a your investment for the sands of Chinese children for community nat should, therefore, their good and for the "good be encouraged. (Please note that thers would ie. mot, be' worth both parties have never touched for the Council. and rate: the financial side of the problem). pose a to be more enterprising?
T beg to put the above two pro:
jon ary societies open schools positions before your fair-minded a means of propaganda; and readers for their. impartial criti-the Germans have opened medical T may add that, og it is al-schools in Shanghat and we may wholesome for children to heestre that the motive fs not pure teachings from parents at Philanthropy. Always and every" home when they are young, there there the "value of opportunity is no reason that it should be con-for moulding the minds. of, the sidered as a danger when the young a Sen porate By pre state or the, community takes over Degandiste of every, king? Yet the British in Shanghai seem me children when they grow olde the responsibility of teaching' the different to. it. The Americans of employment tare far, shrewtier in this rwepoct nent has 'Their share of the Boxer indem: teaching of nity wan returned. on' condition one's children, "Anti" would that the money should be sed to not hesitate about sending talablish college in. China, and his children to school even when students should the' sent by not sure whether he will be tothe United States to. complete What this has f tenant, we all know.
As to the cost of more schools a he stim sieed not be expended once. "A modest bopraniog ould Ge made by the Municipal Gone promising an natal subsidy to all. Chinese schools conforming to a certain standard, the amount bei based pon the number of childrert stcotsstully passing the prescribed nnd super.
Talking the matter over sith the Chinese, another point la favour of more schools Ra a when they anid that in Shan the" Chinese itdben have 10 Playgrounds. So they play the streets and many of them are injured by motor-cars. "In one hospital alone, - the Shantung Road Hospital, the number of patients during 1983 who had been injured by vehicular ts, wag 1.453. It would Itiow how many of them were children of school age. More schools, each with its n play ground,' would" boon to the Chinese children and their parents, and it would do much to remove the discontent at not being admitted to our public parks, While we are about it we may og well discuss the subject from every point of view.
Tam, ete., Hix Met.
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