Marsha San Ciwan-fang; Governor General of Kiangsu and Ché- kiang, has recently issued an order on the subject of educational reform a translation of which in part reads as follow:
"Every country has its particular characteristics: with these as the basis, the people are educated or trained and with those too there fixed the policy.of education for that The Germans their fighting instinct, have their, policy known as the Blood and Iron; and the Americans have theirs, known as 'Nationalism' or the Nationalistic policy. Our Ministry of} Education under the Manchu regime took some of our national characteristics as their model and what, they gave us was at least to a certain "Unfortunately, this policy of education met the same fate as the Manchu Government. The present, policy, if any, is to copy Bolshevism freely as possible. With aimless government on the ors hand and masses on the other, China has reached such a dangerous situation that she is in imminent risk of total destruction.
T hereby instruct our Commissioner of Education to study. carefully what is the general—city ion or policy of the world to draw out a nex policy of education suitable to us
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