"What is the most desirable kind of education? seems to be a question which affects the whole world after the War. Before the war, there seemed to have been two great schools of thought with regard to education: one was to fadividualian like the French, and the other ce-operativeness like the Germans. Experience in the last war seems to show. hoover. that both were one-sided, and the present tendency is to favour a com-Dination of the two, ie. to develop individual character as well as the spirit of ce-operation,—because every berton is a private individual fand at the same time cannot stand aloof from others. It is perhaps due to the natural influences oF tradition of the country, that our culture has been more for the development of individual character, and that has formed the civilization of the East for 5,000 Bat when intercourse ' between the different world is when the civilization may soon be blended with that of the West to form a new civilization for the whole World, we cannot but follow the tide and modify our own. culture. My opinion is that in Ethics we can teach others and our students need not abroad for that. But in Science and democratic ideas, we have! much to learn from' the more advanced nations of the West, and it is to these subjects that' our students should devote themselves, because our most urgent need is to develop our industries and to] advance our democracy.
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