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Excerpt from The Lawyer in the School-Room: Comprising the Laws of All the States on Important Educational Subject; Carefully Compiled, Arranged, Cited, and Explained
Sec. 1. China. - In no country of the world is educa tion so general as in China. The course of instruction begins in the family, where the boys are taught to enu merate Objects, to count to the number of ten thousand, and to reverence their parents and ancestors by a minute ceremonial. At the age of five or six years they are sent to school. On entering the hall the pupil makes obeisance first to the holy Confucius, and then to his master. A lesson learned in grammar, history, ethics, mathematics, or astronomy, according to the proficiency of the student, is followed by the morning repast; after which the day is spent in copying, learning by heart, and reciting select passages of literature. Before de parture in the evening, a part of the pupils relate some events of ancient history, which are explained by the master; others unite in singing an ancient ode, which is sometimes accompanied by a symbolic dance. They.
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