NTRODCUTION, by Paul Monroe,LL.D INTRODUCTION CHAPTER �� 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 �� ANCIENT EDUCAT IONAL STATEM AND ITS DECADENCE. (1123һ206 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 �� 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 �� 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 �� 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 �� 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 �� 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 �� 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