Out of 10,000 college graduates each year, a few join. factories or business, still fewer join mining or other enterprises requiring technical Knowledge, The majority of these graduates know nothing except how to ride in motor cars, drink expensive wines, wear foreign' dress, and visit cabarets. As a result most of them are unemployed.
"When looking at the want ads" in the papers we find advertisers ooking for technical experts, chemists and engineers. We seldom see people inserting advertisements in papers asking for people of liberal education. On the other hand if {ook at the positions wanted' columns we find that most of the advertise fare not specialized in any particular subject, "This shows that experts are in demand, but schools only turn out people of liberal education.
"China has thousands of book stores, but they never produce any valuable writings or print books of high value, Some of these. stores print from four to six hundred books 2 year, but when one studies the ature of there Looks closely. they fare mostly poor works or translations, Why? The main reason is that China lacks good authors. When the au~ thors are poor how can one expect them to produce yeo books?
The Authorities to Blame "We cannot but attribute these miserable conditions to. the inade-Quateness of the present educational system, The summer vacation is rapidly approaching, and many more students are to graduate. Except a very few who have Ivarncd, some real knowledge, they face the inevitable fate of unemployment. The authorities who are in charge of education in the country are to be libeld responsible for the pitiable plight of the students, it education is conducted in this way, tis better not to have any education. In present cixeumstances the more education is p"Lularized in the coun.ry the more consumers will be created. A country can never become strong when she has no person to attend to the technical sid of her development. Tite educational authorities are advised to revise the present system at once, otherwise they are ruining the country as well 1nd as the life of the younger generation."
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