Comparative Analyses of Height Growth Velocities of School Boys in South Korea and Japan in the Past 50 Years

The paper compares the height growth velocities of male schoolchildren in South Korea and Japan over the period 1961-2018. Growth in height was measured with the same birth cohorts, not by comparing mean height of ascending ages in the same year. Starting from a lower economic base and mean height in the 1960s, high school males aged 17 in South Korea became 3 cm taller in mean height than their Japanese peers in the mid-2000s versus 2 - 3 cm shorter in the 1960s through 1970s. Children in Japan ceased to grow taller by the end of the 1980s, not because they quit taking more animal-sourced foods, meat and milk, but because they had drastically steered away from fruit and vegetables in their diets since the end of the 1970s. Having largely converged economically with Japan, South Korean children ceased to grow any taller in the mid-2000s. More importantly, it was discovered in this study that successive cohorts in South Korea started to fall gradually but steadily in height growth velocity from 1st graders in middle school, aged 12 years to 3rd graders in high school, and aged 17 years, to be once again 3 cm below their Japanese peers in the early-2010s. Analysis of Korea Household Expenditure Surveys classified by age groups of household head, decomposed by the author, revealed that children under 20 years of age in South Korea began to steer away from fruit and, particularly, vegetables in their at-home consumption in the mid-1990s, to average only 15% of the level of older adults in their 50s in the mid-2010s. These results lend supports to the importance of fruit and vegetables as determinants in height and its growth velocities in two genetically similar nations over time and stages of economic growth.

Can postponing school starting age solve China’s “Boy Crisis?”

Education has always been a deeply emotional topic for Chinese parents. A recent proposal calling for postponing boys＇ school starting age by one year has led to even more heated discussions on the topic.

The Tamale Local Boy Scouts Association in the Northern Territories Protectorate in the 1920s

In 1907,military leader Robert Baden-Powell started the Boy Scouts Association in England as the British colonial government officers instituted Tamale village as the administrative centre of the Northern Territories Protectorate.Sam Yarney worked with Frank Collyer the European bank cashier and scoutmaster who started the Boy Scouts in the Gold Coast Colony in 1914,the year the First World War started.In 1922,Governor Gordon Guggisberg,who was brigadier general during the war was the chief scout.He reorganized the Local Boy Scouts Association in the Tamale Government School that received select boys from various schools in the Northern Territories Protectorate.The schoolboys excelled in the Standard VII and Civil Service Examinations to work with the government institutions and train as teachers and telegraphists.Arthur James Philbrick the chief scout commissioner of the Northern Territories employed Yarney as the assistant scout commissioner in the Southern Province to take on the staff of the reorganized Tamale Local Boy Scouts Association and register the 1st Tamale Troop.The scout officers subscribed to a Scout Fund to buy kit,for the schoolboys who passed the Tenderfoot Tests to buy uniforms and perform at events.

“求是”岂能忘“育英”?——兼论杭州育英书院的文化遗址保护

在浙江大学西溪校区的大门口有四个大字颇为吸引过路人的眼球——"求是育英"。它们时刻提醒我们,除了求是书院之外,还有一个历史更为悠久的书院跟浙江大学校史密切相关,那就是之江大学的前身育英书院。但是关于育英书院和其前身育英义塾这段早期之江大学历史目前已经基本上被人们所遗忘,育英书院和育英义塾的遗址也已经危在旦夕。本文拟利用新发现的史料,来重新追溯这段珍贵的历史,以唤起人们对于之江大学历史和对于育英书院和育英义塾遗址保护的关注。

宁波崇信义塾史略

崇信义塾是近代西方新教差会在中国创办的最早一批新式学校之一,同时也是民国时期著名基督教大学——之江大学的前身。该学校自1845年由美国长老会宁波差会初创,至1867年迁杭,更名育英义塾,发展到后来的育英书院,乃至最后升格为之江大学。其办学形态经历了从小学程度、中学程度直至大学程度的进化转变,实可作为基督教教育在华嬗变发展的生动诠释。此外,崇信义塾办学的诸多方面,如招生、师资队伍、课程设置、教学管理、日常运行、经费收支等,都在当时的差会学校中具有鲜明的代表性。可以说,崇信义塾的办学历史,无论是在中国近代基督教教育史的发展脉络上,还是差会学校早期本土化进程中都具有典型性特点。

Heavy School Bag Pulls Boy to His Death

书包杀人！香港一奇闻！一个学童斜靠在公寓阳台的栏杆上,书包滑下,重量达20磅的书包将学童拽下20层高的楼房,一命呜呼?记者一言,发人深省:Schoolchildren in many parts of Asia are swamped(本义:淹没;覆没)withhomework and have to lug(拖;拉)heavy bags。】

8-Year-Old Florida Boy Drives to School

八岁大的孩子能做些什么?倘若告诉你八岁小孩能在车水马龙的道路上驾车行驶,十有八九你会惊出一身冷汗!而佛罗里达州就有这么个小男孩,独自开车行驶1.5英里到学校上课。要不是他到处夸耀。恐怕无人会知晓这一“壮举”。他也为他的自鸣得意付出了代价——停课10天反省思过。