University of Nanking - Linguist Yearbook (Nanking, China)

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74 EDUCATION Primary Schools, and may he divided into Lower and Higher. The High Schools are called Middle Schools, and are divided into Junior and Senior. In Nanking there are 120 Government Primary Schools, having il-ll enrollment of about l0,000, These schools are co-educational. although there are a few Higher Primary Schools for girls only. OF course they vary in equipment and efficiency. Some are very well equipped and taught, as for instance, the practice schools of South-Eastern University Educational Department, and that of the Normal School. These schools are experimenting with the Project Methodl' and the Dalton Plan. Most of them, however, have to be content with teachers who have had only Middle School education. The subjects of study are modern, and the text hooks very good indeed. There are about twenty Mission primary schools. with perhaps 1,000 students. These schools are connected with the various churches and chapels, or with thc Middle schools, and like the Government schools, they vary in efiiciency and equipment. Of course, the great difference is, that in the Mission Schools the children are taught the Bible, while the Govern- ment schools leave religion out. The Government has six Middle Schools for boys and one for girls. Entrance into these is by competitive examination, and there are many who would like to enter who cannot. For instance, last year The First Middle School for boys which has an enrollment of about 600, could receive only one out of every eight who applied for entrance. One of the noteworthy things of the Junior High of this Middle School, ig that it is organized as a whole into a scout troupe, and there is 9, Scout Muster on the faculty giving his whole time to his troupe, Beside these, there is a Normal School for boys, and one for girls, Qthe only Government Middle School for gll'lS,-enrollmgnt 30095 an Agricultural High Schoolg and a Technical High School, teaching electrical and mechanical engineering, and the Middle School of South-Eastern University, which has an enrollment of about 500. Because of the lack of room in the Government Schools there aw about twenty private Middle SGh00lS fm' boys and there is one private Middle School for girls of the Chinese living in Java. The Mission Schools, by rights, Ollgllt to have bee!! given first, as they were the pioneers in Western Education, and blazed the yvay for thc,