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f296 GENERAL AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATIONTeachers must be given a motive for improvement.Increasing the salary based on quality of work is to berecommended. It would be well if we could pay more forteachers and demand more from them. The multiplicationof conferences, institutes, and whatever tends to increase theesprit de corps of the teaching body is very desirable.Some foreign teachers need preparation in teaching as wellJIN in subject-matter. The Committee saw several whosemethods were quite crude, It would help in the inspectionof Chinese teachers if the foreign staff submitted to thesame control. The whole question of the teaching oLChinese seems yet to be in a backward condition.7. Probably most schools would admitMaff audt j ia |- ^icir s ( a ^-- amj equipment is not ade-> .Equipment TTT nopiate. We found principals who had excellent ideas which they were unable to carry out for lack oftime. In some of the larger schools there were admittedlytoo many pupils in a class for efficient work. On the otherhand, in some of the smaller schools there were too manysubjects attempted, so that much of the time of teachers wasconsumed with very small groups. There are of coursedifficulties in consolidating schools on the foreign field, butfrom the educational standpoint alone this would be, in thecase of several schools inspected by the Committee, verydesirable.F8, At some schools dissatisfaction wasScholarships expressed with the system of free scholarships,and at other schools changes were being made.In llangehow, at Wayland Academy and Ilangehow.Middle School, it had been decided to treat Christians andnon-Christians alike. At the latter school an unusuallylarge class of inquirers had aroused suspicion arid it wasfound that parents were manifesting an interest in Christianity in order to get their boys into school at a lower rate.Ill some places self-help has been notably successful. Ingeneral, it \vould seem better to make the results of education more attractive rather than make the education itselfcheaper; in other words, to invest money in quality ofteaching and in salaries to graduates- We might get betterresults if we diverted to the salaries of teachers the money