would be able to collect into his own classes
the
& pupils
Studies
whose progress and interest in their gave promise of their making real
attainments.
: In the third place, many Young Chinese,
well educated in Schools in China, and-
Connected with Chinese
families
and
---
in the Colony, would be found
to enter his English classes.
In the
be given
6 fourth place. An
impulse would
to the Chinese Education carried on
in the concentrated Schools. The teachers
under the immediate and daily observation
of their superintendent might be expected to be diligent and earnest to further the progress of their pupils. And an influence would go out from
their schools which would
tell upon those in the villages.
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There would be the outlay for the building which this plan supposes, but the permanent Expenditure for such a system would not be
very
much larger than that of the present:
And fees should be charged from pupils attending the English classes, who did not enter
from the Government Schools. My
opinion
is that these could amount to no-
inconsiderable sum.
This plan makes the teaching of English a
more prominent part of the education in the Government schools than it has hitherto been, But I beg to submit to you that it ought to be so . It ought to be so in this Colony, where the administration of Justice
the English language,
is conducted in
and according
to English law.