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The Chairman agreed with the speaker an the question of expense, but differed from him as regards discipline. He said he was only putting the motions with the object of ascertaining the true feeling of the meeting.
the
That the staff at such school, na regards teaching qualifications, ap- proximate so far as possible to the pre- sent staff of Queen's College, and that continuity of staff, especially of the seniors, should be secured."
Irbe one says, "I have been at such and
́ A gentleman in the audience expressed | WHAT PARENTS MUST KEEP IN MIND. Mr. Reeves, of Ca's College, said Buch a school where I have received And it is this, therefore, that we must he had not heard aning yet which had a doube as to whether the discipline of good sound general education. No, 1 constantly keep in view-that
of education re- & boarding school was any better than the are suggested the real. Wo didn't learn very much mathematics, be- training our children for this particular quired Mr. Mackish had said that discipline of the home. They had always cause in that particular year
ything; that nothing must be allowed to the end in view matriculation, but to bear in mind the fact that a boarding Bedmaster decided that mathematics interfere with that thing; that from the that and was beingorked to on paper school would be more expensive to the shouldn't be taught, No, I didn't learn very outset when we first start to sand all the time. Therre, it was not the parent than the ordinary day school. As ne semail language because father thought the tiny toddlers to school we must have syllabus which was fault. What was an amendment he would move that, it that language, was waste of time and that thing in our mind. It is to be the "better educan" which gentle was desirable that the central school, it whether didn't hold with my learning obtained by regular attendance. We must men had in mind how fere they established, should be a day school and Franch. But I have had a "good sound remember that every time we keep our going to differentialbetween heir sub not a boarding school. general, education'. I can draw more or children away from school, whether it bejects? He put question without dess, I know the dates of the Kings of for a tea party or whether it be to suit prejudice, merely an enquire who had our own convenience, we are king sight not been in the Cly very ong. He England; and I bave learnt a certain of that end, and the children will have felt it was a ver wide a difficult nmount of geography of Europe and to pay for it some day, That we ought question.
It had in thresh out in Eastern Asia, and I got distinction into look upon that end as part of the England over a riod of to years normal growth in the sphere of the mind, During the last years had been
Mr. "MCGUIGAN asked whether Biblical Knowledge." Then, take the boy just as we expat normal growth in the brought down to a ty fine pat. There who can say: "I was at such and such a body, And then there is one last class were about five bjects quired for proposed boarding school" would be a school, I passed the. London matriculation of parent to whom I would address my work to any end. Ben thegot to the
overy boy, Boys re not rained to callega for all, or a collego for taipan? The Chairman: If I am any judge of examination and then I left." Which self, and that is the parent who would
like his boy to go to a Home University matriculation, boys gan took out on taipans, they will send their boys Hono of thew two boys do you suppose has the but would like him to do his schooling the world, to enter thes al to grasp at the age of nine and bring them at better prospects Both of them started out here That at any rate until he sensibly tho work heir forers set
them,
One of thosentialings was again at the age of nineteen. with exactly the amount of brain reaches the age of 17 or 19 he may have that the boys should have beftaught te Both the resolution and the amend The amend- the advantage of homo influence and Either of them might have shared the bone training. And when the boy has think, and reflect seen to him, mert wero duly seconded. fate of the other. Neither of them reached the age 17 or 13 and the parent from what he had hear anen in the meat was carried with three dissenters,
papers, that there was a teness as The CHAIRMAN then proposed the sixth has really done, more or less work than sends him Home, he finds to his horror to what kind of education wanted. resolution, viz.
that he is unable to obtain admission He was not trying to throwd water the other. It hasn't been a question of into the Home University, because he on the scheme, but was enduring to ram. It simply, has been q” question of hasu's reached the standard of the Home get at the root of the mat and put tarting from the bottom laws of the matriculation examination. Yet, I bave it on a proper basis With number! school with a parijmiar aim io view and already shown you that he ought to be of British children in the Co at pre- sticking to it, or, starting from the able to reach that standard cut here by sent no business man would a minute
ex-entertain the suggestions put jarð. ttom dinss of the school with no him in passing the London matriculation
Mr. MACKINTOSH said hehst con- that up to the present time there had Mr. BARTON, who seconded, declared viw but that of a sound, general amination out here. But I would also
lucation." And, then take the case of remind you that the London matricula gratulate the last epeaker he had been no education, for, British children in ex succeeded in obtaining a syll of the Hongkong. His experience had been the boy who is cut out for a profesion tion examination will obtain him in life. There must be some boys in this emption from the matriculation of any Peak School, the Victoria Sel or even that with every change of teacher in Colony who could be good engineers, or University in the world. And I would the Kowloon British Schoofle had British schools there had come n wood doctors, or good schoolmasters if we also remind you that your own University asked on several occasions atttings of order for books.(Laughter) ould only give them the necessary of Hongkong matriculation examination the Education Board that thelabus be nos altogether agree with the, suggestion the placed upon the table, but always of free education, but while parents were been accepted by all training, out here, at a cost which is has within our means and without having, to Scottish and all the Northern Universi received the same answer-they were prepared to pay something towards the them Heme. I cannot myself ties, and that the University has obtained in course of preparation, lad been education of their boys and girls, bo magine any place hetter equipped with affiliation with the Universities of Oxford his painful duty to point over and thought that with a little judicious man- scholarships and with facilities for pro and Cambridge. And that is also why I over again that canthematero not agement the cost might be very consider fessional training at an almost negligible for one, ask for a British central school taught at all in these schools perhaps ably curtailed, especially or books.
the British it would be more correct to shat they est than we have in Hongkong. Let me
mind you first of all of what mast be children who are being educated in this had only recently begun taught. the blue riband of scholarships in the Colony. The very efficiency of the Ho failed to see how they going to school depending upon the numbers, that get the boys up to the ticulation world The Peace, Memorial Scholar ship. This scholarship which is of the is why I ask, that the school shall work, standard if they did not bị to teach from the very outset, from the very them mathematics whie meant value of £300 sterling per annum for lowest form of a syllabus designed for simple algebra and geome Ho had three years. and, which in addition will matriculation examination, and that no a suspicion that the last iker pay the passage of the scholar to my British, boy should leave that school with comparing the very pleas lines on place in the world, to any education out obtaining that certificate. That is which he worked at Queen'llege with centre of the world, and later will why I ask that the staff of that school the less easy conditions un which his provide him with a balance at the end of shall be second to none in the Colony and colleague, Mr. Nightingaldorked at "his studios to start him off in his career that is why, most copoeially and most Kowloon. With regard to type ofi Thesscholarships are awarded, or the emphatically, I invite the parents to co-rducation, they were asking the boys two of them are awarded, eve
operate with the school authorities-in should be beggeht up to thirige lation jours either for Engineering or for ensuring, at whatever actin and standard. "I do not inghether the Agriculture tenable only by Brivish however great the difficulties may be to be matriculation standard is a begin boys of pure white descent on both sides, vercome, that, that school, if and when ning," said Mr. Mackint but if it dne of whose parents shall have resided erected, shall be worthy of the Colony is only a beginning for he's sake let "in Hongkong or China for at least three and shall be taking no small part in the us begin." You have not your boys years. What is this scholarship awarded hancing of all that is best in the social anything like up to theandard yet on the result of some tremendously and imperial progress of this small spot He suggested that it be included in the resolution that this of educa difficult University scholarship examina in the British Empire-(Applause.)
tion should be on de matriculation tions! No, but on the result of the
lines-(Applause). Hongkong matriculation examination.-
now
shall contain, all which
THE RESOLUTIONS.
The ordinary standard of a school leaving The CHAIRMAN after saying that they certificate, which every British boy can were much indebted to Mr. Mackintosh automatically and without conscious effort for his eloquent address, said he thought attain by going through the ordinary advisable, in order to stimulate dist routine of a school working to that end; cussion, to suit the first of the resolu
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He did
The resolution was carried. The ORAIRAN then moved his seventh resolution, vizi
That it is essential, in order to make such a school as is suggested, a success, that the parents should earn- estly co-operate with the staff of the school in (1) Maintaining strict dia- cipline ever the boys and girls; and, (9) In securing the regular attendance of the boys and girls at school.", The CHAIRMAN emphasised that the co- operation of parents was essential if they were to make such a thing a success.
The motion was seconded and carried. unanimously
The last resolution" proposed by the CHAIRMAN Was as follows:
"That adequate playing grounds should be attached to the school and that the playing of games should be compulsory for boys."
And girls," suggested several" men-
"We have heard of this profters of the audience.
loss system in that to put
The CHAIRMAN intimated that he had
commonly, we are for" declared no objection to the addition. speaker, I look up education
A speaker asked if the children would
and yet so far no British boy has been tions which had already been published of British children is dtional asset, have to play football, hockey, tennis and He thought all not to be run along lines of a basket ball during school hours and then able to Win this cholarship from in the newspapers. Hongkong. But if there is any parent present were agreed that kindergarten grocer's shop (Laughter think our be sent home with a banaket full of home-
He for friend is only repeating it we have work—(Laughter.) schools were a very real need.
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The CHAIRMAN: I imagine play will be he wally moved:
That kindergarten schools for child-all along the line "
after school. Most schoolmasters have ä ren between the ages of 3 and 9 years Mr. Reeves replied that took quite certain amount of common sense. be established, on the most modern
an unbiassed point of views repeated It seems to me that they are lacking methods, with specially trained kinder-
that no business man entertain in commonsense at the moment," retort- garten teachers in charge, at the Penk, the proposals. "Personally said, "Ied the speaker. Kowloon, Quarry Bay and Causeway should be delighted if thvernment Bay,"
raised the salaries;.but I it would not be any use putting forward, because they would side from business point of view.""
A member of the audience, in seconding the motion, suggested that there should also be a kindergarten school established
the Central District.
"
The CHAIRMAN amended jesolution to read:
That such education be of
The resolution was carried, the meet- ing terminated by the Chairman on behalf of the meeting expressing thanks to Mr. Mackintosh for his address and to Mr. Burnett for calling the meeting.
"
such a character ns to en scholars THE PEKING GOVERNMENT
on leaving school at the if about
17 years to pass the stat of the! London matriculation oxation." The motion was duly sid "and epted.
The Chairman's fourth reso was:
That, in order to avoid eation of the teaching staff, a schor the co-education of boys angl. be established"!
.
AND CANTON.
A STATEMENT BY THE PREMIER.
The Asiatic News Agency (Peking) states:-
to make bis etildren agriculturists,
the demanal of school who curriculum shall normally and ordinarily prepare those There boys to pass that examination. "must, I imagine, sometimes be a bug in Hongkong, or even a girl, who would like to enter the medical profession. Yes, 1 can hear the father or mother any," should like my boy or my girl to become a doctor. They are clearly Btted for such a life, but how can I possibly
This suggestion" was supported by Mr. afford to send them Hone with all the J. GRANT, who said that if a kinder- tremendous expense involved of a Home garten school was erected at Taikoo he University and walking the hospitals at thought there was little need for another Bome "It can all be done in Hongkong in the eastern part of the city. He con- The medical degree of the Hongkong Midered one near the lower tram terminus University is recognized by the British desirable. It was a much more conven-
A Medical Council,
There man with thatient place than Causeway Bay. degree is entitled to practice medicine in was a large number of children in the any part of the British Isles, or in any Central District, and in the very near British Possession. The fees in this exa- future there was a possibility of good mination are quite inexpensive. They number of Europeans residing at Pok-
Regarding the Kwangtung situation, work out at something under £90 a year, fulam, who would have to be catered
the Loyang war lord, General Wu Pei Fu, is still pressing the Government for the and there are scholarships which can be for.
The CHAIRMAN mentioned that, the re- obtained, I should imagine, almost for
Immediate appointment of General Shen the asking. There are firms here who part of the sub-Committee of the Educa
Hong Ying to the poet of Tuchun of have the right of nominating Donor tion Board pointed out that the schools
Kwangtung, but, in order not to offend Dr. Sun Yat Sen and his Kuomintang Scholars which antide the holder to free should be established as pola where
still considered to be worth while in the SchMarship, two of which are awarded
That, for the purpose ofeting peaceful reunification of the country, the every year, also entitling the holder to impressed, he said, by the views of the two speakers and thought it would be
them to the necessary tra and Chang Shao Tseng Cabinet, according to free tuition, tenable only by British au-desirable to amend the resolution.
discipline, it is desirable boys the statement of the Premier himself Mr. RANT suggested that Causeway jects. All that is required, again, is that the boy shall pass this very simple Bay should be left out of the resolution should be boarders, and not dys when interviewed about the Liang-Kwang The real difficulty with regal this conditions, is pursuing a telegraphic cam- school leaving examination, this matricul- and the central part of the city sub-
Or is there n bay stituted." ation examination..
Mr. E. WYLIE reminded the meeting he said, was to obtain a sit site paign betweds Peking and Loyang in the here, or even & girl, who would like to take up teaching as a profession? And that the Victoria Schoot would have to for such a school. He had in the hope of convincing General Wa of the question with various people/anhole necessity of proceeding slowly and care- what tremendous openings there will become down very soon. For schoolmasters and schoolmistresses in
Mr. J. Russell (Taikoo) did not think multiplicity of sites had bend fully in the solution of south-western to him. He mentioned a few, su political and military problems, General this part of the world in the future! there was any need to alter the motion. Here, too, the University provides
Mr. J. H. MCGUIGAN suggested that in the road between Kowbond Chang says that, in spite of the strong attitude of Loyang, the Government will course which will give you not only
hettlement at Kowloon Tong The until the real intentions of Dr. Sun have not prommigate the Presidential mandata degree in Arts but also a teacher's chort time the Army schools in the Yaumati; in the neighbourhood the
Central District might become vacant.
motion having been amended by Wong Nei Choong Gap, and Mad been clearly shown to be aggressive, and diploma. Here too, small as the cost of Laition is, there are scholarships which the substitution of the Central Dik Severn had suggested that the mits then the Government will decide ita final may be granted by a very generous trict for Causeway Bay," was put to at Shatin could be reclaimed, a policy toward him and the south-west as Government, or again by these firms who bave, by their subscriptions, obtained the the meeting and declared to be carried school built on the hand thus whole. That is to say, by that time,
*The resolution WD secol carried unanimously. x
and
tuition There is the King Edward VII. British community existed. He was The OuHAIRMAN the sub his men, whose co-operation and goodwill aro
unanimously.
:
fifth resolution, which read:
available. Ons gentlerpan had sull the Government will see and decide whe The CHAIRMAN said all, the other re Stonecutters,--(laughter), but thither the political reunification of the solutions related exclusively to children its drawbacks, as, for example, North and the South of China, can er ful means or by force of arms. Premier over the age of 3. He proposed:
"That it is essential that British posed position of the island durit cannot be brought about through peaco boys and girla above the age of 9 should typhoon season. They really receive a better education in this something a little more central, Chang adds that, after the promulgation possible, placed above the level, of the mandate instructing all provinces. Colony than at present." The Hon. Mr. E. H. HOLYOK seconded hillside, where there were definite at and leaders to respect the stipulations of tages from a health point of the Provisional-Constitution, the Central However, that was not a thing they Government will not proceed any further Finally, the Prime Minister decide at the evening's meeting, an unless it be provoked by Dr. Sum in had moraly brought the matter Canton. order that the views of those prisays that at the present moment, all might be learned, as to the desire advicen received from the south about of a boarding school being establishes,
right to nominate scholars. And there 200, all that is required in this school leaving examination. And, if ambition is not even yet satisfied, what facilities there are for post-graduate work outside the Colony Trinity College, Cambridge, offer exhibitions to students coming from as who have graduated with us or who have passed our intermediate examina- Bom The Rockefeller Foundation offers and the motion was unanimously car ne travelling scholarships to students who ried,
The CHAIRMAN then proposed the third have graduated in medicine. It seems to me, the more I think of it, that there are.
That such education should be of Macilities in this Colony far greater than
sound and practical character which will fit such boys and girls to occupy useful positions when they grow up.”
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