5. It obtains its results through fear, not by awakening interest in or love for study.
6. Women are not embraced in the scheme of education.
7. It produces a conservative, untruthful, cunning, and non-progressive people.
8. It reaches practically all of the male sex, and there is opportunity for all to rise to the highest positions of honor, but its methods are so unnatural as to awaken little desire for education on the part of the young.
9. Its motive is debasing to the character.
CONFUCIUS (B.C. 550-478)
The name of Confucius is the one most revered among the Chinese. To him and his disciples are due not only the native religion, now supplanted by Buddhism, but also the language and literature. He began to teach in a private school at the age of twenty-two. He rejected no pupil of ability and ambition, but accepted none without these qualities. He said, "When I have presented one corner of a subject, and the pupil cannot make out the other three, I do not repeat the lesson." The following are extracts from the analects of Confucius:—
1. What you do not like when done to yourself, do not to others.
2. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
3. To see what is right and not do it is want of courage.