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TRADE SCHOOL 287It will perhaps bo noticed that figures for shops very widely. Itis simply the difference in price between equipment that ought to babought and what can be gotten along with. The prices are forshops equipped for manual training and not for production; thetools used are Chinese with a few supplementary foreign.A Test Made*n our ^ ssoc i ation trade school, we tooktwelve boys with two years common schooleducation, so poor that their clothes were the usual rags,their fathers earning five to seven dollars a month asworkmen. They had been running wild in the streets forsome time, and showed it. They did not want to study,but wanted to learn carpentry.In two mouth s time they were turned inside out;wereenjoying their carpentry work, making their own originaldesigns and working them out in the shop could; plane aboard true and square, and could make good mortises;were able to make stools and benches which were saleable,using all Chinese tools except two draw-shaves and a braceand bits. The carpenters come and look at them with greatsurprise, for as they say, the boys learned more in theirfirst two months than the ordinary apprentice in two years,and what is more, they understand reasons for things andcan design. In their class-room work, their teacher tellsme that they learn Chinese faster than any boys he everhad before. They now look bright, seem anxious to learn,and will hardly stay away from the school. Certainly theyare not learning common education any slower than otherboys, and they are, besides that, learning how to earn aliving.Outline of Trade School Course which will befollowed in Vocational Work in PekingThis course has been adopted for the Association tradeschool and also for the practice trade school of the PekingHigher Normal College. For any other city than Pekingit would need radical changes to fit needs and conditions.Tr e adeSchooTThis course pre-supposes that it is possiblet0 take b y S ten ^ears ld and ^ iv tl *em apreparatory course. It might be omitted