Designed to Meet China's Needs During Crisis Mr. Arita, it is understood, reveal Jed the nature of his four-day conversations with Gen. Chang Chun, Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs, jand his subsequent interview with Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, chairman of the Executive Yuan—Domel.
Nanking, Mar, 26.
To meet the essential requirements} attendant upon the present national crisis, the Ministry of Education completing a three-point special programme for the various grades of educational institutions throughout the nation. Worked out in accordance with the views expressed by a group of experts, the programme approved by Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, and will be of forced after the spring recess.
The three basic points of the programme are—Special emphasis "on the training of the body; improvement in spiritual and mass train emphasis on the cultivation of productive ability in imparting knowledge, and emphasis on special] technical courses. physical training, the programme embraces the intensification and expansion of the Boy Scout movement, enforcement "of compulsory physical education, "formulation of plans "for youths" Labour service, special lectures on the training of the body, and improvement in teaching course relating thereto, For the training of the masses, the programme lays stress on the establishment of more mass education] schools, improvement in reading matter, and the utilization of—the radio "and motion picture as media in training.
For the purpose of increasing productive ability, the programme provides for the' addition of special technical courses to the curricula of schools of various grades, so long as these courses do not conflict with the basic courses in time and faculty capacity. Other "points include the rigid enforcement of free education for children of school age, and ning various parts of the country.—Cen-
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