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A Special Itinerary: A Tour to Taiwan’s Education Facilities

A Special Itinerary A Tour to Taiwan’s Education Facilities

The participants of the “Summer College in Taiwan” were all elementary school teachers in Japan. The itinerary was clearly carefully planned to suit their special occupational background. As a result, a large part of the venues that they visited included important schools and educational facilities in Taiwan. The itinerary commenced at Taipei's Zhishanyan Huiji Temple, considered the cradle of modern education in Taiwan. (The temple’s back hall was used to establish the first Japanese-style modern school by the Taiwan Governor-General’s Office in 1895.) Subsequently, they visited other venues that had functioned as schools during the Japanese rule, such as the Longshan Temple in Wanhua and the Confucius Temple in Tainan. They also visited modern schools, including the Takow General Elementary School, the Tainan Meiji Public School, the Taichung Normal School that trained teachers, and the Taihoku Specialist Medical School, where the “academic lectures” of this “Summer College” were held. The itinerary also included the Museum of the Taiwan Governor-General’s Office and the Tainan Commodity Exhibition Hall, both of which were used for social education.