UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN CHINA 



445 



Total Attendance in Chihli Province 



Number of 



Year Students 



1902 2,000 



1903 8,000 



1904 46,254 



1905 88,000 



1906 135,416 



1907 173,352 



Schools in Chihli Province, 1907 



Number of Numlerof 



Schools Schools Teachers 



University 1 13 



Provincial college 1 9 



Industrial and special (middle 



grade) schools 13 118 



Industrial and special (lower 



grade) schools 17 40 



Upper normal schools 2 46 



Lower normal schools 98 165 



Middle schools 32 157 



Upper primary schools 220 521 



Lower primary schools 8,675 8,969 



Half -day (or night) classes .... 121 133 



Girls ' schools 121 163 



Increase 



6,000 

 38,254 

 41,746 

 47,416 

 37,936 



Number of 



Students 



98 



205 



1,612 



446 



395 



3,448 



2,125 



10,599 



148,397 



2,971 



2,625 



continuous growth. In all fairness it should be noted that, compared 

 with Chihli, the other provinces would make but a sorry showing, though 

 those which have within their borders large treaty ports, such as 

 Hongkong, Shanghai, Hankow, Ningpo, Amoy and Foochow, have also 

 done well, and the remote province of Ssu-ch'uan, especially so, con- 

 sidering its remote geographical position. It will be perceived that 

 support of the new system is almost proportional to acquaintance with 

 the foreigner, and in developing this support the educational work of 

 the missionaries, both protestant and catholic, has had a preponderating 

 influence, though the material rewards derived from the foreigners' 

 superior knowledge are not unperceived and unappreciated. 



A false impression may easily be obtained from figures such as these, 

 by inferring that the results accomplished in these schools are com- 

 parable to those of similar foreign schools, which is far from true as 

 yet. This results from a number of causes. Perhaps the chief of these 

 is that the control of the national and provincial educational boards has 

 remained largely in the hands of the officials of the old system, who 

 naturally are rather ineffective in putting the new in force. This has 

 already begun to change for the better, and young men who have studied 

 abroad have been appointed to minor positions on the Peking board, as 

 well as to provincial and local boards. Another drawback is the lack of 

 properly qualified teachers — the pay of teachers in the lower schools is 

 naturally small and the demand for educated Chinese in commercial 



