THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,' 5TH MAY, 1880.
6. Another question of great importance is the
ni of education. Purely native teaching is ex- vely cheap. The consequence is that purely
ative" Confucian Schools, public and private, bound all over the Colony. Their
managers
ar no grant from Government and even decline. apply for it when invited. They would not esitate to take the money of the Government,
at they object to the trammels of the Grant-in-
Schedule and fear interference with the method teaching, believing, as they do, that they know »tter how to teach Chinese than a foreign Gov- rament can possibly know. In the smaller
lages and hamlets of the Colony alone the
le are glad to have the advantages of the t-in-aid Scheme because their poverty does
or allow them, with their small number of milies, to establish schools of their own as they uld otherwise prefer to do. But in the town
purely Chinese schools kept by the Govern-
or it are, in my opinion, not only uncalled for Gt compete injuriously with native self-help in
Confucianist education without giving really a ★tter education. For details as to the cost of the Government Schools and the amount of aid given to Grant-in-eid Schools I refer to the tables
aqpended to this Report. But I wish to point out
that the costly nature of English teaching princi-
ally consists of the salaries of English Masters
Who have to be imported from England, who
quire free passage out, a salary of at least £300.
and after some years a passage back to England
a furlough or sick certificate. Had the Govern-
neut, when first beginning to teach English in this Colony, confined itself to English teaching,
stead of combining it with Chinese, and esta-
ished a training school for native teachers of
English, creating at the same time a demand for
such teachers by opening Elementary English schools instead of purely Chinese schools all over
t: Colony and thereby needlessly competing
with the natives in what they were willing cough to do themselves and what after all they do better than the Government can do, there would long 20 have been furnished a supply of natives able to teach English effectively and willing to teach
at very moderate sularics. Even now
Training school exists in the Colony and conse- ently almost all English teaching in the Colony that is really effective has to be provided for by
curing the teaching power at great cost from rland. A revision of the whole Educational Policy of the Government is clearly needed.
7. Detailed information as to the changes which We taken place last year in the constitution of Education Department will be found in the plements* annexed to this Report. To the Supplements I also refer for detailed in- cation as to the progress male by the outside
minent Schools in the course of the year and as regards the revision of the Grant- vul Schedule." This revision.as tar as approved present by the Right. Honourable the Secretary State for The Colonies, consisted principally in purgation from the Schedule of the words
lap" and "elementary." For the words
e Suppleu mis, being enprints hem the Jercomment Cazette. terpablained here but will be inserted in Bhe Book,
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今本港仍未設有書院以育成本土人欲肩英文教師之任者故欲得確善誘人之教師則不得已動用多費請自英國來· 條本意學成某歎之課卽領某 能爲愈於國家者爭衡則數年前早已不勝本土人能教英文且善於織及樂於教而所用修俸亦不若是之奢也爭奈迄 牧師於心無所嫌疑且亦無傷規 立一院以育成本土人欲肩英文教鼬之任者且多設初學英文書塾又不設此只教章文之義學以與本土人所樂為所 两名一句如此段國國會 載後或因病請假回藉等情所有盤川亦由國家支故也個國家在本港創教英文時只教英文並不兼教華文又另 學二語卽將世俗二字攤除派入 儒教所有教法固有善於彼者論及國家各義學所有費用若干與及獎賞各學會議學之項若干請看下附數目等圖便 現 政大臣各款 知顚末蔽監院亦欲陳明教習英文費用極奢之故實因英人教師請自英國來川不少另其修俸周歲不下三百磅數 者是廢除規絛內所有世俗及初 諸多煩瑣耳且恐國家涉其教法蓋意謂彼知教華文之法愈於國家所可知者惟在村鄉籬落之人極樂國家在被設立 一千八百七十九年時進退 輔翼義學園彼地瘠人稀無力所致也至在五環專教華文之國家義學校徽監院意見非徒無待而又害之蓋華人自理 及去送所改韓娛鐵學號 若 塾者未嘗請求國家輔助卽諭知冼領國家獎賞之項彼亦未協於心非謂不樂受國恩所不樂者乃國家賞給義學規條 附一片在該片可見國家,學於 此外又有要者卽教學所需經費如或專教華文所費甚故土人儒教之散館學館藝學港內在在均有且掌理如此書 若欲去羨學著無可鴷隆
由此觀之則國家教法必須易轍較爲顯然
欸之賞如此則各樂教師於躍
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