ABSTRACT
For the study of Chinese education there is abundance even a plethora, of material. There is the mass of publications by the Ministry of Education, studies on the subject of textbooks, vocational training, and the education of the masses, specialist periodicals by the dozen, discussions by experts on pedagogics, kindergarten, mass, vocational, and other training. As have seen, the Chinese only reluctantly and at long last decided to modify their native educational system at all, and when they did all they wanted to achieve was the material strength that Western science appeared to give. A slogan at the end of the nineteenth century gave a recipe for a rejuvenated China. The Minister of Education, whose memorial to the Throne in 1906 finally fixed the aims of the first modern educational system, recognized this fact and remarked, the Chinese people are selfish and divided.
