The Archive · 1940

Do Gardening Chungking Order Teaches Manual Labour

Chungking has enforced a new regulations requiring students to be their own gardeners and to do other work in schools beside" obtaining an education. The regulations, which consist of nine articles, have just been published in Shanghai and it is that Chinese schools here will carry out the order.

The main idea of the order is to require students to set aside at least three hours weekly for doing manual work along the lines of agricultural production. They are requiredyto grow all kinds of vegetables and to raise chickens and pigs. It is stated in one of the regulations that if it is convenient, students can feed fish in artificial ponds if there are none near their schools.

They are also to be taught the methods of making sauce and other seasonings. To grow apples and to make bean curd are two other official suggestions

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