Association, who wrote the intro. duction to the pamphlet hag this to say with regard to the above figures:—4 w words should be said""abour the traditional private schools which are still numerous in this country, but owing to the absence of available' accurate data they are not included in this report. In. a city like Nanking, with a population. of less than 400,000" there are more than. 600 such schools within the city wall, having a total enrollment of. about 12,000 pupils, being more than all the students of the modern schools _put together, The same thing can be said of Canton, a city more than twice the size of Nanking, where are more than 1,000 such schools with an enrollment of more than 20,000. As we go farther into the inland, we find that modern schools become less and less, while these traditional schools becom more numerous. It is very conservative t" remark that the number of pupils in these traditional schools are at least equal to those in' modern schools,"
Putting the figure therefore at the outside of 15,000,000, and tak ing the population of China as 400,000,000, approximately 4 per cent. of China's population is at school.
The schools are apparently poorly financed and' are therefore unable to avail themselves of the dest methods and equipment. For. instance, there are 167,079 lower primary schools, which have a total enrollment of 5,814,375 or an average of 34.8 students to a_ school. The universities stand. highest, having 279 students to a school. Altogether there are 288,142 teachers engaged in the 178,981 schools and the total expenditure for the whole educational system ig $59,424, 567, this including national, pro: vincial, private and philanthropi, expenditure The 34,880 students Ki in the universities consume $13,950, 424 or $399.95 per student, while the lower primary schools consume $20,759,762, or $3.75.per student. The secondary vocational schools
ably because of the expensive requits $137.03 per student, prob-equipment and supplies required in this work.
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