Education Spread Through "Little Teachers"
Club, which held. its usual re-union Members, of the, Shanghai Rotary {lflin' meeting on Thursday at the Me~ {ropole hotel, were entertained to a highly instructive address by Dr. Tao Hsin-chi, Adviser to the Labour Science Union of China, and well known in Chinese educational' circles as an authority on rural education in China.
Introduced by Mr. William Vinson Lee, the speaker of the day, taking for his subject "Universallzing education in China", prefaced his remarks with the statement that China Is essentially an agricultural coun try, and explained that the object of the Labour Science Union was te spread education among the masses by means of the young pupils instructed by it "The modern conception of universal education" said Dr. Tao, "is an industrial product, but how to. universalize education in an agricultural country is an unique problem, because an agricultural country "such as China is very poor, and the dif-faulty has been to find the necessary "number of ficient eachers who could adequately handle suck problem, apart from which fact there la the outstanding one of finance, and funds are urgently need-for such a desirable project.
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