I think T am right in claiming that all our British schools, from the greatest to the humblest, aim and this real character, which, with all its imperfections, is useful and forceful. And when our British ideas of schools are brought abroad to you, by these missionaries who want nothing but to benefit you and your country, they still aim at Building character. Here in hurst, you boys have an opportunity that is denied to many Chinese schoolboys. Recently I read that certain Government schools had closed without holding any examina tions, because the pupils controlled the schools and didn't want exams and held that, as they paid for their education, they could make such decisions." 'Those schools are not moulding their pupils, but the pupils in their young ignorance are mould-ling the' schools into -uselessness. Here you have got a real chance to develop character that will make you useful to yourselves and useful to your country. You have discipline in this school and you can't have this school without the discipline, because we know that. it could do no real good to you or your country, if it abandoned its ideal of building up your character.
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