but the difference between China and America is that in America
the people are compelled to do it from necessity, while in China
it is resorted to as a matter of policy to make the young men
realize the value of money, and not spend it wastefully.

The curriculum prescribed in the schools covers a wide range of subjects,
and the graduates are well equipped to face the battle of life.
Not only are drawing, sketching and other fine arts taught,
but also carpentry and other trades. I was once shown a fairly made box
which was the product of a very small boy. I did not at first perceive
the use of teaching a boy to do such work in school, but I learned
that its object was to instruct the pupil how to think
and arrange his materials systematically.

With the exception of those schools established by Christian societies,
or endowed by religious sects, all educational institutions,
especially those established by the state authorities, are secular.
Religion is not taught. Neither the Bible nor any other religious work
is used in the schoolroom. The presidents, professors, and tutors
may be strict churchmen, or very religious people, but, as a rule,
they are not permitted to inculcate their religious views on the students.
The minds of the young are most susceptible, and if no moral principles
are impressed upon them at school or college they are apt to go astray.
It should be remembered that men of education without moral principles
are like a ship without an anchor. Ignorant and illiterate people
infringe the law because they do not know any better,
and their acts of depredation are clumsy and can be easily found out,
but when men of education commit crimes these are so skilfully
planned and executed that it is difficult for the police
to unravel and detect them. It has been known that frauds and forgeries