If the Chinese and Japanese have distorted ideas concerning each other and are not able to work harmoniously towards a common goal, we shall be faced with a serious problem. How is this to be tackled? Is it not clear that one answer is increased facilities for education? If the Shanghai of 1958 is to be a place worth living in, certainly we shall need a host of citizens—Chinese, Japanese and Westerners—who will be seeking "to build men, not empires; to build culture, not bayonets.
In view of terrorist outrages it is necessary at the present time to maintain a strong police force, but if we take a long view, looking to the future welfare of millions of men and women, we shall build well for the future if we increase and not decrease our attention paid to education.
Perhaps many may feel that the present position is quite satisfactory, I wish ta point out that recently the Shanghai Municipal Council Board of Education appointed a sub-committee to look into the matter of possible buildings for additional primary schools for Chinese.. If we study this particular aspect we shall find that through the closing down of Hongkew and the extreme difficulty in operating schools in the outside areas at the present time, thousands of children are concentrated in a small area in which there are not sufficient schools
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