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.""TRAINING OF MISSIONARIES 111Equipment oftraiui "/lie*l 1001 id lould.. .Schoolsadequate accommodations and equipment toenable the students to work under the mostfavourable conditions. This involves the provision not onlyof regular class-rooms but of enough study rooms in oneplace to make it possible for the students to work under thesupervision of the trained teachers and the director of theschool. Living accommodations for the students should beprovided, preferably in buildings set aside for the purpose,where conditions are favourable for the best development ofthe spiritual, intellectual and physical life of the students,such as are found in the Anking and Yangchow homesof the China Inland .Mission.,,cThat the China Continuation CommitteerecommendTeaching Staff to the training schools andmissions, the following, as a guide in thesecuring of training for Chinese teachers:1. The selection, as far as possible, of only suchteachers as have had successful experience in languageteaching or have been trained in normal schools. Allteachers should be chosen by the director of the trainingschool, and should be under his control. Continuity ofservice should be sought.2. The giving of opportunity to new teachers toobserve the work of men trained in the Direct Method.3. The giving of normal instruction, both theoreticaland practical.4. The assignment day by day of the definite work tobe covered with students.5. Criticism by the director and senior Chinese teacherof the class-room work done.6. The grading of salaries according to the quality ofwork and amount of responsibility carried.In order to provide satisfactory teachers for studentsafter they have left the training school teachers should besecured from the localities to which the students are to go,and brought to the training school in order to receivenormal training and to enable the students to begin theprocess of acquiring the local dialect under the supervisionof the director and senior Chinese teacher.