Even during the past three months, with Communists all round us, Scholars have let nothing interfere with their daily studies and though at times the Red menace came close to our doors students kept at their work. The private institution on the frontier is still a popular school and many of the wealthier merchants prefer to send their'children to them.
There is one unfortunate thing about school study in Tachienlu, namely, It 1s almost, if not entirely, confined to book studies. The Chinese, Tibetan and English languages are taught and Dr. Tal has taught physics and chemistry in the two harmal schools, but apart from this there has been very little practical education and no attempt whatever at vocational education, This means that in a few years we will have hundreds of students on the border who have no idea what. ever of how an egg is fried, boiled or scrambled, Untorwinately the scholars, without exception, are look-Ing forward to oficial life somewhere on the immediate frontier. Other are hoping, after graduation, to pro-coed to Nanking oF Peiping and there enter one. of the Mongolian-Tibetan schools, ultimately to return to the border in some omelet appointment.
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