The Educational System Of Japan Classic Reprint

Author : William Hastings Sharp
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330308974
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Educational System of Japan written by William Hastings Sharp and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Educational System of Japan The materials for the following Report, part of which was composed in attitudes of varying discomfort on the floor of Japanese inns, and the rest during intervals snatched from College or University work at Bombay, have been gathered from three sources: official reports and publications, standard works on Japan, and personal enquiries during a furlough of some months spent in that country in 1904. Official publications of one kind or another are numerous, but with few exceptions are in Japanese. Under these circumstances a series of pamphlets entitled Education in Japan, 1904, and published by the Educational Department for the Exhibition at St. Louis, proved invaluable, as furnishing a number of details, regulations, and time-tables, otherwise only obtainable by laborious processes of translation or interpretation. They do not, however, distinguish between those regulations which are really enforced, those which in practice are not enforced, and those which have only just been enacted. Almost every regulation contains a provision that "under special circumstances" something else may be done, and special circumstances seem as common in Japan as extenuating ones in France. Changes, again, are incessant, not only rules but also functionaries being created or abolished with startling rapidity, so that any account runs the risk of being out of date even before it sees the light. Next in value are the annual reports of the Minister for Education, an abridged version of which is published in English, the latest available being the report for 1902-3. Unfortunately no copy prior to 1892 could be found, so that it was impossible to study in any detail the history of the first twenty years of modern education in Japan; and the later reports tend to become increasingly dry and statistical, with less and less explanation of any changes observed or introduced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.