Striking Speech by General Chiang at Conference Nanking, Apr. 20.
Strict academic discipline in all educational institutions throughout the country and prohibition of all unseemly activities by students, in anier that youths Wes to shoulder responsibilities Iter on, the key-note of a speech delivered by President Chiang Kai-shek at the [second regular ingoting of the Second National. Education Conference, Dr. Chiang Mon-lin was in the chair and the meeting was attended by 88 delegates, "The foundation of our National! Revolution in the last analysis," said the President, "must, necessarily a sound education. The adoption fof a wrong educational policy wilh not only result in national—mis-{fortune but may even endanger the [preservation of the nation."
General Chiang deplored the! existing chaotic state of educational conditions, He declared that the main reason was to be found in the laxity. of academic discipline and misunderstanding of the term "personal liberty" by the students, "It Dehoves the educational authorities Jeoncerned in the various Provinces ud Municipalities to enforce cipline strictly, so as to guide the youth of to-day along the path of proper development; for in the youth of to-day lies our hope of a better future for the country. Only' when students devote themselves to the pursuit of knowledge and not other activities which interfere with take sad in the future," said their studies, will they learn how to
President Chia Concluding, the President attention tothe fact that in 'a8 China was essentially an agricultural country, special attention must be paid to the promotion and de velopment of rural and agricultural education, The third general meeting of the Second National Educational—Conference was held yesterday under the chairmanship of Mr. Chen Ho-hsien, Vice-Chairman of the Conference, and was attended by 89 delegates.
dent Tai Chi-tao of the Extion Yuan delivered the openldreas, He said that, since by the greater number of primary and middle schoo! graduates i country could not afford to continue ther studies, the curriculum of various schools. of lower grades should be so arranged that the students, after heving been graduat~ fed could not only be prepared pursue further studies but would also be qualified for some appropria ate occupation.
President Tai laid stress on the necessity of carefully considering estimates of expenses of various grades of schools; otherwise, many In concision, Mr. Tai emphasized that the present industrial and economic stagnation of China that popular education must increasing the nation's productive power.
The minutes of the second general meeting of the Conference were then ved. mary programme for] mittee concerned subsequently suggested a number of revisions, These were accepted and the entire proposal adopted as revised.
The second important proposal /adopted was for the opening of more elementary schools and normal schools in the various provinces.
A report on the results of the inquiry into the programme for! elementary education was submitted by the Examination Committee. The meeting then adjourned.—Kuo
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