Tt is difficult to review these generalizations, no matter how dispassionately, without seeming to endorse them in toto. But at the same time it is impossible to discuss the problem of modern education in China, which is vital while the disposition of the British share of the Boxer indemnity is undetermined, without first reviewing these ' charges." So here are some of them at least.
"The returned student has neither initiative nor courage. He allows home-trained conservatives to assume leadership in education, politics, industrial development, commerce, civil war and every other enterprise and either panders to their conservatism by selling his technical knowledge and his understanding of foreign ways to them, ey stands neutral and aloof between them.
"The returned student is unwilling to serve an apprenticeship after his return to his own coun. try. He refuses to take the place at the bottom under either foreign or Chinese superiors, to which he would be assigned in any other country because of his purely scholastic and theoretic knowledge of his profession. He wil] accept no subordinate position until he has exhausted the possibilities of getting into a high administrative position. He insists upon the right of the man with a degree to boss the man with practical experience, while refusing to be tested in the application of his book knowledge to practical problems.
"The returned student seldom pursues in China the line of work for which he hag prepared himself abroad, He prefers a Government sinecure to an opportunity to make
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