Excerpt from The Tendency to the Concrete and Practical, in Modern Education

I have just been looking for two months and a 'half at an immense nation, in whose method of education there has been nothing of either the concrete or the practical. The peculiar quality of Chinese education has had a prodigious effect on the career of the nation, and explains, in fact, its present backward condition. As you know, in China education has been purely literary, philosophical, and ethical, and the educated men have had control of the national life to an ex traordinary degree. Official life in China was only to be entered through the gate of education.

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