To the Editor of the"
"Nontu-Ciwa Datuy News."
Sim—Our thoughts have been stirred quite a bit by the lecture given in London by Dr. Wei on mass education in China, in "Herald" of January 14, we take a special look silty due tothe difficalty of the mean emma ego hai akin ata amount of illiteracy found in England 100 years ago was d was due to the difieulty of the age, and other countries where it i found at present, is due to the Jdificutty of those languages. four speaker has not found the right reason, and consequently sonnet give any' tight solution. I ived in the days when in my home district in Ulster there were many iterates, but after my school days, free and compulsory education was cetablished, and the result was the the lower primary type will: Te was Uiscult business "for the Tooke very form ordinary boy of any malta dozen sears with proper teaching and the difficulty. pastes, hundreds of boys and. gible have passed through the writer's ha and mone of them have found rear diMeutty, given the opportunity, and the' mare than 100" now occupying these Wesks are. finding AMThat arity Shore wax not an could have taken Dre Welt aside quills or Priscilla present who
taut Min the way of fea: tions the fact. that he was edueational adviser to two provinces, and
sion to Japan to investigate educa-vas also once a member of tional matters. He read it and then made some remarks which T will not trouble yon with, but just tone little sentence. "The present system of education is calculated to make more illiterates" and I began to think could this be true, I have read a great deal that has been talksovatter thinking the thing over for
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