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CHAPTER XXITRADE SCHOOL OF THEYOUNG MEN S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, PEKINGDwight W. EdwardsThe type of education here outlined aims atType ofnothing more than the taking of the boy whoevidently must become a coolie or workman,and making of him a skilled workman or contractor. Itcannot supplant or take the place of other forms and typesof education whose aims are different and whose studentsare not the same. It is a special system for a special need.Its importance Lies in its ability to teach poor people howto earn a living, and to give to China a body of skilledworkmen fairly educated. It is not adapted to the educationof all children, nor should all children be forced into it.Experiments and investigations which have^ )een eari i e(l on during the last year and ahalf by the industrial department of thePeking Young Men s Association among the shops, presenttrade schools, in the Association trade school and in themanual training classes of the Peking Higher NormalSchool would seem to point out some of the following facts.1. Children who have money enough to pay for theirown education or who have any chance to go through to ahigher education, will never use the trades taught them.2. Children wiio have had common school educationup to the fourteenth year cannot adapt themselves to theidea of becoming workmen and never use the trade taughtthem.3. Children who are bodily weak can learn tradesrequiring more skill and finer work than the more robust,but should not, of course, be allowed to learn trades whichwill hurt them physically.4. Children who are not taught a trade as thoughthey were apprentices arid workmen from the time thatthey enter school will never appreciate the value of hi hournor make good workman.