The main object of adult education is to raise up an nlightened sats of citizens, who will be able to appreciate and to carry out the principles of self-government.
'Two li from the school lies a cer tain' village called Waung Hong, where these principles are being put into practice in electing the end man and other officers of the village. This. place is regarded as An experimental station; such has een the confidence inspired by the work of the Institute that the privilege of self-government of this} model village was accorded freely by the Mayor of Wasih In thirteen surrounding villages night schools and improved tea] houses axe conducted by the stu-clients under the supervision of the teachers, This is regarded somewhat in' cho, light of laboratory experimental work. The night school or the ton house is a sort of centre for the social eorvico work of the Institute, Beside the teaching of the fundamental processes of reading, writing and arithmetic, and the: advantageous use of leisure time, f special effort is made to bettor thi economic condition of the farmers, cly the introductic seed, and selected Other aims are the raising of the health standards of the communities, and the establishment of model homes. To these ends, a clinic is well as baby shows.
The writer saw oxcllont letters and short compositions written Chinese by adults who had only been three months enrolled in the night. schools, and also exw a play being given by farmer boys, setting forth, the advantages which an educated man has over an illiterate one, and. showing that this boon of education was to be freely obtained by attend. ance at one of the night schools of the Institute,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.