ABSTRACT
The school for the Chinese child under the old regime was for the most part in the home. This chapter describes the old style of education for Chinese boys and girls. It then pictures the changes that have come about during the past dozen years. Chinese history is full of the names of men who, by energy, industry, and ambition, raised themselves from positions of servitude to places of power. Chinese have twenty-four incidents of as many remarkable persons, about whom children are told, and whom they are expected to imitate. These twenty-four patterns of filial piety include Shun, Min Sun, Tung Yung, and Wang Hsiang. Families which were able to teach their children, called a teacher to their home, and while theoretically only the boys were allowed to study with him, practically, in very many cases, the girls were put into school with the boys until they reached the years of eight or nine or more.
