Secondly, the management of the works must be convinced that the training of the students -will bene. fit their plants in some way.|, Either they must look forward to employing the pick of those whom, they help to train as the works in America are now doing, or they must do it from an altruistic motive similar to what actuated the! majority of the men in America, who now admit the Chinese students, viz,, good will to Chinese and a desire to help China to get} on to her fect industrially.
This second alternative is not a solid foundation on which to build a permanent educational policy, though it may work for a while if pushed by those interested. The former alternative of employing the students whom they help to educate is at present out of, the question in China, as only a very few of the industries—can afford to pay the high salary! demanded by the a'stage returned student. In other words, even the students in the Universities here were willing to work half time in the industries (and the loss! of face would frighten nine-tenths of them) the industries are not yet! well enough developed either "to ive them training of——auch technical value as would interest] the students, or pay such a salary them after graduation as to} employ them.
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