What then is to be done? The first thing is to develop the industries by some other means to the point where they will be both worth the time of the undergraduate college students to work at and, after graduation will pay him a salary compatible with the edueation he has received. This I believe can be done by the introduction of elementary schools into the various works to educate the apprentices and younger workmen, 39 that, when the born leaders among them leave these plants and open plants of their own, they may have education enough to raise their plants to stage where it will pay both to educate college students and to! employ them after graduation.
This is the programme that the Bureau of Engineering and Industrial Education has before it.
We do not propose to do away with any of the educational agencies now at work, but we shall try to prepare the way for the time when they can function as they are] beginning now to do in America believe these institutions are half a century ahead of their time in, China, and that it will take fully) that time to bring the industries, of China up to the pitch where full advantage can be taken of tne opportunities now _afforded in these institutions. When I defend the present institutions defend them only on the—supposition that they change to ce-operation as they are doing now in America, otherwise I believe they, can prove no reason for their existence, Training Misplaced Some nights ago, I was asked to] dine at a hotel bya group Chinese engineers. "One of them, a master of chemical engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute Technology, after returning from America spent some time selling! oranges, and is now ina textile plant where his technical training' has absolutely no relation tow he is doing. I wonder how this young man regards his politico educational advisers, who helped him to amuse himself for say 10) years at a certain sort of mental Rymnasties, that may or may not} he better than mahjongg or Chinese chess, which he would have Tearned had' he not become al cultured Returned Student, but been apprenticed to the textile business fat the age of 14 instead of, as he now is, at the age of 26, Has that young man's _chanee in life been bettered by education given him or the rever: Tt is a question in my mind whether would not prefer to be a boy put into the factory at 14 and given a fair chance to rise by education, than to be in the place! of that crimeer.
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