A cycle of Cathay, or, China, south and north . ts, one having beenconsul in Japan. Such success as the college has achieved has been the fruitof a long struggle with obstinate conservatism. Unlike theJapanese, who adopted the Western system in all their schoolsfrom kindergarten to university, the Chinese were so well satis-fied with their old style of education that they never dreamedof reforming or supplementing it to any great extent. The col-lege was established as a concession to the demands of a newsituation—to supply a limited number of trained officials, notto renovate the whole mandar
A cycle of Cathay, or, China, south and north . ts, one having beenconsul in Japan. Such success as the college has achieved has been the fruitof a long struggle with obstinate conservatism. Unlike theJapanese, who adopted the Western system in all their schoolsfrom kindergarten to university, the Chinese were so well satis-fied with their old style of education that they never dreamedof reforming or supplementing it to any great extent. The col-lege was established as a concession to the demands of a newsituation—to supply a limited number of trained officials, notto renovate the whole mandarinate. Deep and permanent asits influence must be, how much grander would be its destinyif it were made the starting-point of a new departure! In found-ing it Prince Kung and his associates confessed themselves in-fluenced by the action of Japan. Now that the schoolmasterhas conquered, under the uniform of the soldier, will they notextend the system and place the whole education of the empireon a new basis? The future of China depends on |-[ii||iiii-ii(.-]t ttuwnniw vmMtmM^
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