Dear Sir:—Quite inadvertently, I am sure, I was misinterpreted issue of April 16, in a brief article headed '(Professor Says U.S. Miseducates Chinese,"' The article states also, without direct quotation, that described the returned student as misfit and almost an undesirable."* T should be quite unwilling to leave he impression that I am disposed to criticize the generous hospitality with which our American institutions have received the Chinese students, and the excellent training which they have given them, T should be even less willing to have it thought that underestimate the influence for good which many returned students from America have exerted in China. My point is at our university training, valuable vastly more valuable if supplemented by practical experience, outside the college. This the business men of the country only can give.
An American student. upon leaving the university, goes into a business. where far from aking a place at the expected to work ind so gain practi-experience, A Chinese student, however, with exactly the same training, goes back to his own country with the hope of building up new—enterprises, whether in industry, engineering, eto,, and is expected to take a position og leader in the field with no one to give him training in the practical side of the business. What I therefore urged was that the Chinese student. in addition to the training in books which he gets from our universities and colleges, be given a certain measure of practical training in the business. profession or industry along which he wishes to work, If American business will open its doors to the Chinese graduates of our educational institutions. we shall send these students back to China prepared for the difficult task of winning leadership
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