French House, etc.
Tokyo, Mar. 24.
An entirely new type of school, the Keimei Gakuin, aesuned to provide with a synthetic educauon children of parents in the diplomatic and overseas business circles of Japan, absorbing them into the home culture without making them lose their valu-abie assets in already-acquired foreign education and knowledge of foreign languages, was granted a charter a few days ago by the Educational authorities of the Tokyo Prefecture.
The new school was founded by Mr. Takasumi Mitsui, a member of the great Mitsui family and a graduate of both Tokyo and Oxford Universities, and it will be headed by Mr. Shigeharu Kimura professor of Japanese culture at the University of Hawaii.
The school which will formally open on April 8, has already received a rumper of enrolments. Especially intended fo sponsor the education of Children born in foreign lands who find difficulties to fit into the Japanese official educational system, all classes will be limited to 10 members with special teachers in charge of each group, in order to permit carefully individualized training.
Care will be taken, the sponsors say, to harmonize the best of the children's overseas education with that they are to receive in Japan. Special emphasis will be placed on the retention and further development of the children's ability to use foreign languages. The organizers plan eventually to group the children by foreign language groups in houses, Such as the English house, German house, French house, and so on, "to retain their ability for future service to the nation in diplomacy and international business."—Havos.
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