Pupils were seen given lessons. by Jefficient' instructors in sanitation, physical culture, manual craft, music and military training "dummy" guns being used for the latter); and others were noticed taking the usual courses.
In one training school for teachers, the average age of the students is around seventeen. All of them are graduates of rural normal schools or others who had displayed distinct signs of leadership. Their course consists of four months' practical training. and those who wish may also stand for scholarships as research students for another year.
'At the end of four months' training, they are sent to various towns and villages to establish and to become principals of what are known as Chungshan Special Mass Education Schools. Some 80 members of, the first class had already been sent out at the time of your special eorrespondent's visit and 128 of the second class were undergoing training. OF he latter, 96 were research stud-
There are already 94 of these spe-_ dal schools in the various hsien districts with 12,900 students, those in attendance being, in the main, people young and old, male and female, living in the areas recovered from Communist-bandits. It is hoped, eventually, to open between six and eight special mass education schools in each hsien district, or about 300 throughout the province, Jare requ wri reports the poral schola the students jand keep diaries because it is the wish of those in charge to discover what the students' thoughts are and what their attitude la towards various social problems,
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