...1872 the emperor announced his desire that there should thenceforward exist within his realm " not a village with an ignorant family, nor a family with an ignorant member." For the realization of this ideal a heterogeneous scheme of universal education was devised. It comprises...

...1872 by special order of the Emperor, " that henceforth education shall be so diffused that there may not be a village with an ignorant family, nor a family with an ignorant member." This ideal has been sought under great difficulties. Mr. Norman sums up the result in a few words:...

...designed henceforth that education shall not be confined to a few, but shall be so diffused that there may not be a village with an ignorant family, nor a family with an ignorant member. Learning is no longer to be considered as belonging to the upper classes, but is to be equally the...

...these mistaken views. It is intended that henceforth education shall be so diffused that there may not be a village with an ignorant family, nor a family with an ignorant member. Persons who have hitherto applied themselves to study have almost always looked to the government for...

...these mistaken views. It is intended that henceforth education shall be so diffused that there may not be a village with an ignorant family, nor a family with an ignorant member. Persons who have hitherto applied themselves to study have almost always looked to the government for...

...following words : — "It is intended that henceforth education shall be so diffused that there may not be a village with an ignorant family nor a family with an ignorant member." Japan has never wavered one instant from this purpose. She has sent picked men from that day to this...

...order of His Majesty the Emperor, " that henceforth education shall be so fh diffused that there may not be a village with an ignorant family, nor a family with an ignorant member." And this ideal has been faithfully pursued ever since. But the steep has been a hard one to climb,...

...these mistaken views. It is intended that henceforth education shall be so diffused that there may not be a village with an ignorant family, nor a family with an ignorant member." In the same spirit the government has been laboring ever since, and, as a result, there is now an excellent...

...significant sentence : " It is intended that henceforth education shall be so diffused that there may not be a village with an ignorant family, nor a family with an ignorant member." The one change, however, which in its significance transcends them all, has been the entrance of evangelical...

...were hampered by almost incredible difficulties. For the government of the day frowned 34° ifcgoto. on all things foreign, and more than one zealous student...in Tokyo ; an elementary school for both sexes in Kydto, where each boy and girl had his or her own seat and desk; and the university called the " Doshisha,"...