That students should not taught to enjoy the past mhe tance, but to create new civilisation was urged by Dr. W. T. Tao, author of a number of Chinese text! docks, in his Tecture on creative education delivered at" the Ellix Kadoorie Public School for Chinese No. 1 Shanhaikuan "Road on Jan. 17, at the meeting of the Shanghai, International Eduention Association. Mr, G. S. Foster Kemp, Head Master of the Public School for Chinese, presided over the meeting and introduced the, lee-turer fo the audience.
Because of the age-old tFedition, eveative education the more needed in China to-day, Tao emphasised. In traditional Iueation, #chool and society ha een separated; and, xo have been life and education. Teachers deen doing nothing but teaching, books, while students study books. Science and machinery have been
sorts of methods have been employ looked upon, as astern, while all ed to frighten infants to prevent them from erying, ete Creative education is diveetly op. posed to these, Dr. Tao said. means ihe combination of action and thought; the transference of energy to creating new order; and implies the whole of society as a school. "Having quoted, the five processes of "Reflective Thinking", by Dr. John Dewey, American educationist, Dr. Tao said that one more process, should be added to them: action to feel difficulties. The five processes are: difficulties felt; Iyeation of difficulties; propose solu:
us of election most effective solution and trial and repeated trial. The addition of, sixth process, action to fe difficulties, Dr. Tao said, is assent al It is'like walking on a street to find out if the roud leads: to our objective.
The principle of creative educa-Dr. Tao continued, is the apvlieation of both thought and action jointly: the use of brain and hands together. The masses should be taught how to create a new civilisation, but not to accept the already created things as a gift, he concluded, "They must Be given such spare
Ealing thal, they can compete fuccenafufly on the same Ties With howe educated tin other parts who have the advantage of having supplying for masters
een educated under older. xystents the 'Municipal Council' may be able 1 to provide, at least for the present, better education than is possible in leas-favoured schools in the interior and one suited to the special needs Of this international city. The aim of the Council should not be to pro-¥ide schools for Chinese on lines different from those in other parts of China, Rather it should try to make its schools, like its roads and public works, the best that can be found in China, "If possible 1 would like to see the school buildings used in the evenings for vocational training of young men and women who are at work during the day. Shop keepers already teach their employees and write but these work.
algo. the large industrial d further training. There class for which no provision has yet been made. By the use of the schools for, an hour or two each evening and at small expense much could be done in elevating the general average of intelligence of the Chinese residents of the Settlement."
The proceedings closed with the gigaine of the shoot song in Eng ish,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.