The Reorganization of Education in China

iXT rHE May 1931' session of the Council of the League of Nations, the Chinese Government asked the technical organizations of the League to collaborate in the preparation and execution of a scheme of reform. For the centralization and control of the work of reform, the Economic Council was set up by the Chinese Government. It announced its intention of drawing up a program without delay, setting forth the most urgent tasks that could be successfully undertaken in the course of the coming years. It declared its conviction that the work of the first few years would be in the nature of an experiment, limited in its object and field of application, that would serve usefully to prepare the way for a more extensive plan covering a much longer period. Its intention was to determine by this method the most suitable means to be employed, and, by a process of partial but appropriate application, to set up, with the assistance of the provincial and local authorities, models for the new undertaking which it was endeavoring to bring into operation. With regard to the reorganization of public education, the League contemplated, in particular, sending to China a mission composed of advisers who would assist the development of the Chinese educational system and facilitate intercourse between the centers of intellectual activity in China and abroad. Pursuant to the decision adopted by the Council on May 19, 1931, the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation instructed its executive organ, the International Institute of International Cooperation, to appoint a mission of experts who would visit China for the purpose of studying the present situation in regard to public education and the long traditions of culture peculiar to the ancient civilization of China, and with a view to submitting recommendations on the most suitable procedure to be adopted to ensure a better adaptation of this educational system to present-day conditions of life. The mission was composed of Professor Carl H. Becker, of the University of Berlin, formerly Prussian Minister of Public Education; Professor M. Falski

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