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many failed as a result of the new regulations governing the Mathe- matics section; but Chinese was responsible for
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the world, but also to master 3 poon, (Dist. Arithmetle and Mathema foreign tongue through which he ties), Woo Chak-yu, (Dist. Mathema- has to make his acquaintance with tics), Fok Tsung, (Dist. modern sciences.
Arth- metic), Poon Ying-chiu, (Dist,
realise that the salvation of China lies not in a total break with the past (for no nation can afford to discard its cultural tradition), but in the re-organization of its educa- tional system along modern scien- tific lines.
Tsan-
Chinese will continue to be a stumbling block to those who wish to join the local University, if the Chinese elementary schools in Hong Kong persist in trying to meet 20th century requirements with results obtained through the application of 10th century methods.
The old system of Chinese educa- tion was to stuff a student's mind
It is a matter of considerable Mechanica), Wu Shiu-wan, (Dist. with information, especially with importance that the educationists Mathematics and Mechanics), Cheng | the
classics, This
antiquated arrive at a decision soon. The very Mechanics), Chow Cham-wing, (Dist. Man-chiu, (Dist. Mathematics and system started with the assumption self-respect of the country Is Arithmetic and Mechanics), Tang Tai- that the major purpose of child-threatened. The exigencies of the hood was to prepare for adulthood, times and the peculiar aberrations and Mechanies), Pun Kwong-pul, (Dist. wa. Li Kwan-tak, (Dist. Mathematica The study of the classics was re- that always follow in the wake of Mathematics and Mechanics), Teang 'garded as sacrosanct, inviolable, civil wars and revolutions are Chun-hon, (Dist. Mathematics, Arith- and unchangeable, Childhood and responsible for many bizarre sug-metic, and Mechanics), Leung Ping- youth were spent in memorising gestions offered as remedies. Forshan, (Dist. in Mathematics), So Ping- literary compositions, which were tunately for the culture of the yin. (Dist. Arithmetic), Lee very often unexplained and but Chinese, stabler and wiser minds chiu, (Dist. Mathematics and vaguely understood by the teachers have prevailed. Men of vision Mechanics), Ma Wing-yung, Tsing themselves. The old educators for-
Wen-yuen. Chow Kwong-hen, Lau got that the human mind' automa-
Kwan, Wong Shou-hing. Lui Kam-tin, Cheuk-yan, Wong Yik-wan, Leung tically eliminates everything that
Kwong Man-gun. ia not used, and that textbook in formation has no special immunity but goes the way of all unused mental lumber. They assumed
These men, while that what wea good enough for the respecting dead yesterday, are yet 10th century would be good enough able to understand invisible to- for the 20th. They did not know. morrow. Their belief in the China or refused to know, that the world of the past has become transform was rapidly changing, and that in- ed into mere Allal affection and formation relative to the world respect. They realise that such a would have correspondingly to
China can never live again in the change, if it was to be of any uso.
world of to-day, and they recognise For centuries. Chinese scholars the futility of resistance to the have taught nothing but the march of progress, no matter in wisdom of the ancients. This can-
what high-sounding patriotic not, in the very nature of things, verbiage that resistance may be go on indefinitely. I do not wish clothed. May some one be found to discourage, in any way, the among them who will breathe into study of the "Four Books," which modern Chinese literature a swift, belongs to those works which are strong spirit that will bear far above criticism, and which are triumphantly into regions where it apprehended not so much by the has never ventured before! intelligence as by the spirit. One
Throughout the Orient an old cannot find a single coarse senti-social order is challenged by a new ment expressed in the "Four economic order that has been born Books", and that is more than one of the marriage of science and can say of other famous world technology.
The great creative classics. More than any other periods of history have been those single factor it has helped to pre- in which men became aware of the serve Chinese unity,
culture, tension between an old and a new
and civilization to the present day. while other contemporary cultures, continental in scope, have vanished so utterly that they do not survive even in the long memory of vague
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). legend. What I strongly deprecate
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is the enormous amount of time spent in memorising the "Four
Scholarship Winners Scholarship Winners. Class 1, Wong Shit-ming; Class 2, Sum Ya- lam; Class 3, Wong Fong-lim: Class 4, So Shut-lun; Class 5, Cheng Fook-chai Kwok-kuen; Class 7, Ho Ki cheong; and Hui Yip-keng: Class 6, Wong Class 8, Yee Shou-san.
Class Prizes
Class 3A-Chan Chuck-fai, Leung Kam-to, Ngo Siu-kee, Yung Hing-chau, Fok Wai.
Class 3B.-Wong Fong-lim, Tang Yan-chau, Woo Hou-kong, Cheung Kwong-yu, Sung Ching-tok.
Class 3C, Lam Kwan-ting, Ho Wai-ming. Wong Shiu-tin, LJ Yu-sum, Lai Wing-tat. Ityeung, Wong Shiu-chong, Wong Hot- Class 4A-So Shut-lum, Wong Shiu-
shing, Lak Ki-chuen,
order and sought to effect a merger of the best features of the old and the new. Nowhere in the world does this tension between an old social order and a new economic order promise developments more interesting to watch than in China. It is the duty of schools, colleges,
Class 4B.-Chow Chia-hon, Chow Chiu-chor, Wong Tak-wing. Lo Hung- pok, Chow Chiu-yau.
Class 4C-Lee Ying. Lo Sui-shing, Lam Fook-ching, Lo Sui-sun, U Shiu-
cho,
Che-fong. Yu Kan, Wong Chiu,kwat. Class 5A-Cheng Fook-chol, Wong
Wen Sik-chiu.
Class 5B.-Hui Yip-keung, Tang!
Chi-koung, Lui Chak-yung, Wong Kam- nok, Chan Cheng-to
Class 60,-Li Chung-tsi, Fung Yin- kwan, Ho Ka-kl, Cheung Kun, Teo HD. tung.
Class GA-Ho Yuen-pai, Ho Yu-ki, You Po-wah, Wong Ying-yat, Wong: Shiu-kong.
Class 60.-Wong Kwok-kuen, Ma Mui Shiu-foo.
Class 60.-Leung Hung-kon, Ng Ting-yuen, Yeung Shu-yung, Mak Koon-shiu, Chan Sai-hung.
Manila, Sandakan, Thursday Island, Books" and other Chinese classics. and universities to see that those Hon-chuen, Chiu Sz-hon, Tang Ho-yan,
Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney Melbourne,
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Japan and Hong Kong to Australia.
developments are
Modern education deals with every branch of human knowledge. lines.
When so much time is taken up by the classics, there is very little
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left for the study of anything The aims of Wah Yan College else. Everybody who has anything have always been, those of its to do with education in China founder. We strive to provide our knows that the average Chinese boys who are bred to no business boy of twenty has a very small and born to no estate with meana
of earning a livelihood, and at a great disadvantage when com- enable them to develop that sim pared with a European or Ameri- plicity of character, kindliness of heart, and love of peace, which are can boy of the same age.
the true characteristics of an educated Chinese gentleman..
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Modern education has assumed in these times a special character which the Chinese cannot ignore,
It has in view, the Information and the judgment of the pupil as well as the development of his habits and character, it gives less im portance than it formerly did to the cultivation of the memory. I makes use chiefly of methods cal culated to exercise the understand. ing, to lead the student to raßect and reason upon facts, and to seave the domain of words to enter upon that of ideas.
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Conclusion
Class 7A.--Chau Sing-kan, Chan Pul-chun, Au Sik-ling, Leung Tung- chun, Lee Shing-yim.
Class B.-Mok Hing-ming, Chun Man-bun, Jackie Ming-kai, Wong
Wong, Leung Yin-fat.
Class 7C-Ho Kit-cheong, Cheng Tung-chow, Yip Tim-shou, Lo Kit-hee, Sun Chung-ming.
Class 8A-Yee Wal-yum, Chan Yung-tim, Tsul Shau-bul, Leung Tze- ying, Chu Cha-chau.
Class 83-Yee Shou-san, Leung Sing yee, Tam Chung-ying, Wu Pei- man, Ming Kung-hic.
Class 80-Lam Lal, Chan Ying-ion, Cheung Yum, Kwok Wai-chung, Yow Hugh-chung.
Before I conclude, I wish to thank all the donors of prizes and every one who has helped to make this function a success; and to express to Mra. Tratman our great appreciation of her kindness la
The function terminated with a sparing so much time to grace this short concert given by the students, company with her honoured pre-after which three cheers were given for Mrs. Tratman, who was also presented with a bouquet of flowers.
senca.
The Prize Winners
The following wern the prize- winners:---
Matriculation-1, Wong Shiu-ming, (Honours, Dist. Mathematics, Govern- ment Educational Scholarship. King Edward VIL Scholarship); 2, To Chai- The leading Chinese educawo, (Qualified for Govt. Studentship); tionists are now faced with the, Young Yu-lam, (Dist. Mathematics dileulty of finding a solution to a Apr.
and Mechanics, Qualified for Govt. very complicated problem. They Studentship); Loung Hon-yung, Lau
to decide have
whether the | Hoacho, Kwok fushu, Leung Tiral, Chinese students of the future (Dist. Mathematics), Lau Chak-sang, should be bilingual or the Chinese Au Yeung Sook-wang, Fung Kwok-wa, language should be made a less re-
Khasom Pangscrivonghe.. fractory medium through which to
Senior-Wong- Lin-bad, Hui Hong- give instruction in all the modern slong, Wong Ping-kwan, Leck Mani- Poon, Weng Wing-cheung, Lim Hoy- sciences. At present a Chinese wongse boy is greatly handicapped by hav« Junior Sur Yu-lám, (Dist. Physics, ing not only to study his own Mechanics; Arithmetic and Mathe- language, which fa the hardest in matics), Chan Kam-to, Chan Wing-
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