Missionary Survey As An Aid To Intelligent Co-Operation In Foreign Missions by Roland Allen
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| | Number | tion | Number | tion | | Popula-| of | to | of | to | Re- District.| tion. | Primary | Popula-| Higher | Popula-|marks. | | Teachers.| tion. | Teachers.| tion. | _________|________|__________|________|__________|________|______ | | | | | | _________|________|__________|________|__________|________|_______ Here it will be noted that whereas in the area it is the number of schools which is considered, in relation to population it is the number of teachers, because in the area the point of importance is the accessibility of the schools; whilst in relation to the population it is the number of teachers which reveals to what extent the population is served. Then similar reasons to those which led us to take into account the non-missionary medical assistance in the area force us to consider the non-missionary education. If we are to consider scholastic education as a need of the people at all, we must acknowledge that the presence of Government or private schools makes a great difference to the situation, and if an appeal for medical missions ought to be affected by the presence or absence of non-missionary medical assistance, equally ought an appeal for educational missions in any area to be affected by the presence or absence of non-missionary educational facilities. It may be true that if the aim of educational missions were defined as the provision of educational facilities under Christian influence, the presence of non-Christian educational facilities, in proportion to their |
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