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No. 22,437 AREOFXAXA # HONG KONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1930.
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HEAD
MASTER'S CRITICISM OF
"MATRIC."
SCHOOL CERTIFICATE SWAMPED.
NOT A SQUARE DEAL FOR THE AVERAGE PUPIL.
A sweeping condemnation of the | for Lancashire a little lower; but.] Yet such a certificate was worth 50 system under which school certifi the average for the country was.
cates and matriculations are award' ed was made by Major the Rev. C. P. Hines, head master of Hutton Grammar School, at the Manches ter Rotary Club, last month.
Major Hinds pleaded, in the in- terasts both of secondary education
54 por cent.
The Average Boy.
be
I am pleading, Major Hines insisted, the case of the average boy or girl who is not getting, a quare deal. Here is an examina tion, which was intended to
entered for it, passed in fact by ne more than 34 per cent. of pick- ed scholarship candidates."
per cont. more than a matricula- tion certificate. A boy, could ma- triculate without taking either Eng. lish literature or history, which
not take geography at all; and if were alternative aubjects; he need
he took Latin he aeed not take elementary mathematics. It was all very unsatisfactory and con- fusing.
The Weakness of It.
No. & No.15 No, 17 No.19 | No, I No 13 Nds and of the average boy and girl, passed by 80 per cent. of all who
for the reinstatement of the school certificato examination as a fair tost of a general secondary educa
The general conception of the tion, suitable for children of 10
A great many of the candidates matriculation examination today years of age, with the matricula-who did not get the certificate, he was that it was an entrance ex- tion examination "cut, loose from
a university It went on, were worthy of it. They amination to it, as a real entrance examzina.
did not get it because the examina-ought to be that but it was not, tion to the universities. He argution had been appropriated by the It no longer admitted to any ed that the existing system result-universities for matriculation pur-faculty. It merely admitted to ed in a pernicious policy of teach ing children "more and Ingre about leas and less," which allowed a boy or girl to matriculate who had far from reached the general standard which was frequently at tained by children who had secur et the school certificate, but who 'were regarded" as "failures."
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poses The appropriation had one faculty. The matriculation been made with the best intentions which he remembered as a boy-be- and with the concurrence, at the fore they began to play ducks and time of the teachers, because the drakes with it-was the hall-mark new arrangement avoided a duplif
good all-round secondary cation of examinations. But the But there was no longer any guar- education in six or seven subjects. universities had since sot a new Lantee that this was so, although standard of their own. Now they it might be. It was to this hor said that, if a boy passed the exdren were being taught more and rible system, under which our chil-
No Oriticism of Board. "amination with credit marks in five more about less and less, that an Major Fines made it quite clear subjects he might take it that he ex-Minister of Education was res Sanferring when he suggested recent at the outset that he had no eriti had matriculated and the tale that gecondary education was cism to offer of the organisation was that they had an examination being strangled by matriculation.. responsible for the examinations designed for one
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To-das...
(August 18.)
Queen's Theatre: "City Girl."
World Theatre: "Way.of Gold"
(Chinese film),
Star Theatre: "College.".
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