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Excerpt from A Short Account of the Educational Society of Japan In order to assist in the improvement and advance ment of education, it was thought necessary to secure the establishment of more intimate relations between the various educators in the country and to draw closer the bonds of friendly intercourse. It was therefore deter mined that a national convention of educators should be held in Tokyo. This convention was held in the Lecture Hall of the Imperial University, and lasted for six days, from the 2sth to the 3oth May, 1890. It was attended by 880 members, representing the following localities, viz., the Hokkaido; the Fu of Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka; and the Km of Kanagawa, Hyogo, Nagasaki, N iigata, Saitama, Gumba, Chiba, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Nara, Miye, Aichi, Shidzuoka, Yamanashi, Shiga, Gifu, Nagano, Miyagi, Fukushima, Iwate, Aomori, Yamagata, Akita, Fukui, Ishikawa, Toyama, Shimane, Okayama, Hiroshima, Toku shima, Yamaguchi, Kagawa, Ehime, Kochi, Fukuoka, Oita, Miyasaki, and Kagoshima. The subjects for discussion and conversation were as follows the introduction of technical instruction into elementary schools, (with reference to the local circumstances, the condition of the people, the grades of schools in which such instruction should be introduced, the ages of pupils to whom such instruction should be imparted, and the subjects to be taught); (2) elementary school management, (with reference to the influences exercised on the state of education by the operation of the law for the organization of cities, towns, and villages, and with reference to the teaching based on the teachers' personal experiences in fostering the special characteristics of each school (3) the best method of teaching, (with reference to the teachers' personal experience in the development of the minds of young pupils, and to their successes and failures in teaching); (4) means for preventing so many failures in examinations on arithmetic; and (5) the necessity of basing our educationalsystem on the principle of State Education. Besides those discussions and conversations, various lectures and addresses were delivered on the subjects of education, and the convention was closed, after the best attended meeting ever held in the history of the Society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
