Oct, 9.
SiR Michael ler, the well-known educationalist, in cent magazine article pleads for a spirit of freedom based on a reasonable healthy discipline, and in the course of his article he makes the very sane remark that an extension of the ec amic liberty brings with it the growing authority of the State, "In Germany to-day, the fanatics for an extravagant freedom in education are the very men who plan for adults stern control by the State in the relations of social life." Coinciding with this dictum, is the truth that people, and especially young people, when deprived of.|the blessings of diseiplin joy freedom less, and use cit freedom most imperfectly.
Dr. Johnson once remark that patriotism was the last re fuge of a scoundrel. The sar-casiri goes beyond the truth, But it is often the case that liberty ind freedom, glorious words with grand associations, are used by scoundrels for the propagation of dangerous doctrines and unscrupulous practi ing in the eventual of their victims. In spit the great boasting of the supposed reformers of Russia and notwithstanding the highly coloured reports of certain Trades Union deputations to that country, the tyranny of the Soviet is a hundred times worse thi hat of Tsardom. A China that prates of freedom and de-while it allows its to do precisely what they is on the high road to doing its best to bring enslavement, One of the' things which China needs to-day, most above everything the cultivation of discipline Her educationalists of: the cou try have it in their power to inculcate this spirit "of discipline and restraint in their pupils. Were all the -teachers of all grades and varieties of educational institutions to band themselves together and' to insist that they should be' truly masters in their own schools we "should find an amazing change taking place, right through the eighteen provine Instead of generation citable infant-politicians, the catspaws of the wire-pullers of Moscow, we should have in time a self-respecting, self-reliant people, a race that would disdain to whine continually over its fancied grievances, a people who would set out to win the respect of the world by fir setting their own house in der. The brigand scourge would melt away before a national revival of discipline; even bribery and corruption would have to give way.
Of course such a change in China would not be wrought in a day nor in a year, It would doubtless take a good many years to bring it about. But it youths from eight to eighteen were taught the great principle of Obedience to authority, wonderful transformation would inevitably follow and no, longer should we see the sorry spectacle, of an ancient people with great history behind it making itself the sorrow of the civilized world.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.