NTRODCUTION, by Paul Monroe,LL.D
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER Ⅰ ORIGIN OF THE ANCIENT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.(2357—1122 B.c.)
Beginnings of educational effort
Institution of the examination syetem
creation of offices of public education
Earliest schools and colleges on record
Content of ancient education
Method of ancient education
Aims of ancient education
CHAPTER Ⅱ ANCIENT EDUCAT IONAL STATEM AND ITS DECADENCE. (1123一206 B.C.)
Name,location,and character of schools
Content of education
Career of a boy
Career of a girl
Method of education
Admission,examination,promotion
School age term,aud year
School offices
Number of schools
Administration of education
The examination or selective system
Ancient school system in its stages of decadence and transition
CHAPTER Ⅲ BBIEF SURVEY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATION UNDER SUBSEQUENT DYNASIES.(B.C.206—A.D.1842)
Development of education under the Han dynasty
Development of edocation from the Han to the Tang dynasty
Development of education under the T'ang dynasty
Development of education during the sung dynasty
Development of education under the Yiian or Mongol dynasty
Development of education under the Ming dynasty
Development of education under the Ching or Mauchu dynasty
CHAPTER Ⅳ TRANSITION FRON TRADITIONAL TO MODERN EDUCATION.(A.D.1842-1905)
Beginnings of modern school
Early sttempts to modernize the examination system
Educstional commissins to wastern countries
Effect of the Chino-Japanese war upon educational reform
The book of Chang Chin Tung and his recommendations concerning educational reform
Reforms and counter-reforms of 1898
Effect of the Boxer and the Russi-Japanese war upon the progress of modern education
Recognition by the government of the graduates of modern schools
Effort to modernize the traditional schools
New provisions for the encouragement of study abroad
The first modern school system
Abandonment of the examination system
CHAPTER Ⅴ THE CONSTRUCTION OF A MODERN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM (1905-1911)
The ministry of education
Aim of the modern educational system
Official regulations of 1906
National educational surver
Educstional programs to prepare the people for constitutional government
System of national inspection
First central educational and local administration of education
Chinese educational missions abroad
Separation of the civil service examination system from the educational system
Changes and developments in the school organization
Control of text-books
Status of education at the close of the Manchu dynasty
CHAPTER Ⅵ REORGANIZATION OF EDUCATION UNDER THE REPUBLIC
Revolution of 1911 and its effect upon education
Temporatr educational policy of the provisional government
Emergency central educational conference,1912
New aim of education
Reorganization of the administrative system
Reorganization of the school system
The now curriculum
New rules and regulations
CHAPTER Ⅶ PRESENT-DAY EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS OF NATIONAL INPORTANCE
Relstion of missionary education to the public educstional systerm
Education and the development of moral character
School discipline and government
The financing of the new educational system
Universal education
Training of teachers
Relating education to life
CHAPTER Ⅷ SUMMART AND CONCLUSIONS
Education and national progress
Education and government service
Centralization versus decentralization
Curriculum
Method of education
Education of women
Training of teachers
General outlook
APPENDLX
BRBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX