Daily Difficulties That Are Faced and Overcome at the Mah Chao Station Excursions into distant. provinces in search of evidence favourable to tical mass-edueati riments. in prac-n are no longer to the serious exemplification of wt, fore-sight, ard th adaptation of tional theories is going of Shanghai far from Miog it has been going for some six years under the!
ection of General and Mrs, Yung Chien-new whose tireless efforts unflagging faith in the dev lopment of China by Chinese, lly as it affecix the welfare of the illiterate, has been recogniz Jed within the past' year by the Trovincial Governmen! of Kiangstt The government at present supple: ments the funds of the Mah Chao Agricultural Experimental Station, through the initiative 1 the exten! of $100) does "not! modest beginning that has grown into a complex ard inspiring effort in' mass-education, immediately. grasped the significances of her hhusband's ideal. "With him, she set to work to build something that nigh stand as a patriotic contribution to the progress of New China, Without first-hand" knowledge she. has. prov ing the Mal experiment while her hyisband, Vice-Chairman of. the Yuen of the Ni king Government, ig, at his every member the position of community mother to whom troubles, great and small, are submitted,—She graduate of the MeTyeire School (1904), and has had ten_years' experience axa teacher in Susan B, Wilson's School, hence she possesses cellent! foundation" in education, Her own likeable personality has lconshined with excey ilities to. aceorplishment of husharl's project, appre problems, merits mediately a rough plan of educational procedure wag, mapped. out, General and Mrs. Niew drew Fumie Tom. thi and erected to boll f the building ix tot appreciated,—qui ly barriers fo. progress literacy and" the grow of urban Jife in' China anization, and memorial of the 100th anniversary the birth of Gen, Niews parents, Mr and Mrs, 8. P. Nien prominent the Manchu Dynasty.
The Start the disasters and urban life hud swept the United Stater into fan economic chaos that provide! work/-lesson, General survey China for his own enlighten Av scholar dui ha Dynasty and a graduate of Mu Peh Military Academy before the Republic was a fact, brought to analy sis all. the trained Me had. worked]
mind, indefatigably with Dr, Sun Yat-sen, fand had studied in Japan and visiting the United States, too, ax Superintendent dismay. the othe elt mined upon a that America, most has recently" adopted england has long recog ix. the importance taining' and increasing duction and discouraging emigration to cities, Obviously, it ise of higher wages opportunities might' be, that persisted in attracting the farmers of Mah Chao and scores of other communities in China to urban life. A "back-to-the-land movement" eeeined the agi way to fore-stall economic difficulties, and throwing his own resources" into the scheme, Gen, Nien proceeded to put his theories' to the test. whose keen mind is about the tasks of the community" to] effort towards elf ud whose executive department)
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With the exception of some men of the. transport there were not note than two or three of us left that had seen it through since the commencement and ours was supposed to be a Tucks battalion. expect Wee had pulled off a twenty. thousands to-one chance. "Some of Us celebrated the day, by adjourning down the cellar of a house and playing Pontoon, We had. ac-Tanalated a lot of money during the last few months and had been tunable. to spend. it. About "six Hoare tater Urowe up ston broke: Thing got the money. easily how I fast it easily.. The follow. fuge day' T sold some German field-glasses and autoniatis pistols and fried my luck once more at. Pontoon, with the tame result as the previous day. My" tuck hed Changed with a vengeanes. - But {consoled myself with the thought, that Tv had arrived in France broke and would leave fu the same wa: see "Old Soldiers Never Die," and this book plainly shows how true that statement is. full cognizance of the ile of the Chinese farmer, 'Nieuw wisely' decreed that the ional system adopted for the of "educational ie policy. which night give 'Thee to. accusations of self-importaree on the part of the Nie fa Asa result, the Jadult farmers of "Mah Chao' were invited to take part in discussions, cloverly centering around vocational subjects and designed ty ingteuct the men in. practical methods. without implying any lack of knowledge fon their respective parts They were self-respecting, self-supporting. members of the community that was.
derstood. "New methods had been sieveloped which "were assuredly. hound to increase the size and quality of their evans, ise sions "merely" offered" opportunities affording an exchange of ideas, that
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