"The returned student as a teacher is a real menace because he seems almost invariably to select for transmission to his students that in foreign institutions and traditions which is most exotic, bizarre, radical, grotesque and superfluous. He prefers to present to his classes the fripperies of foreign culture rather than to inculate sound information. He gives his students Ibsen and Wilde to read before they have mastered their primers. He would rather harangue them for weeks together on Einstein than drill a little elementary algebra. into them. If he has occasion to talk of art he is pound to enlarge upon futurism. He is bound to give them much more of the theory of communism than any real information upon the machinery of workable Government, His interpretation of the West to the aspiring youth of the East is only too often a burlesque upon conventional institutions and thought in our home lands. The effect is too often an abnormal and unwholesome impression of the traits and institutions which have made us strong and therefore of the things worth China's while to adopt.
"As many spokesmen have recently complained, in and out of print, the modern Chinese in business is by no.means an improvement over the old-fashioned Chinaman' whose verbal pledge was worth as much as a registered document. The returned student plays such a trifling part in the direction of China's commerce that the new Chinese commercial code cannot be charged to him. But neither can he claim credit for such growth of trade and industry in China as the last few decades have bearing upon trade development. The return upon the investment here has been smaller than in any witnessed.. The education of Chin-
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