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EDUCATION OF BRITISH CHILDREN.
Last Night's Public Meeting.
CENTRAL DAY SCHOOL
DEMANDED.
FRIDAY,
MARCH 9. 1923.
much future to show what particular dren referred to already attend the wasn't in those days very Vistoria School at Causeway Bay. thought of Hongkong as a Colony course he shall follow and in the These children will naturally leave in the sense that men would settle meantime I shall be quite satisfied the Victoria School and attend the here, make their homes here, if he can obtain a goad all round Quarry Bay School. There will bring up their children and their education. And thirdly, there is still remain thirty-three children chidren's children here, creating in the parent who says that all that To-day matters is that my child shall have besween the ages of five and aineiset British homesteads. ip attendance School
the
Colony
at the Victoria I firmly believe, however, that good health and to obtain that I things have changed, and that it will sacrifice everything and cer- The Victoria School building at is in the interests of the Colony,tainly education. With regard to Causeway Bay will shortly be in the interests of the Empire and this latter class of parent I have demoli hed, and I suggest that afin our own interests that we should very little to say. I have no know The public meeting called
a settledge as to the peculiar dangers temporary building similar to that look upon Hongkong a for the purpose of con- sidering the subject of better recently erected in Gap Road-ment in which Britishers shall be which education in this
and home work upon the health of our home makers education for british child-model school building in many re-come
boys and girls. I can only blindly the | builders. And unless this is true wellspects-be erected either in extremely WAS
accept the reports which are made the existing there is not much call to
worry each year by our medical school attended last evening, the old neighbourhood of
and Chamber of Commerce room at school er, prelembly, a little nearer about the improvement of
inspectors, who invariably
without undoubtedly the City Hall being filled to aver the centre of the city, so as to education facilities for British chil
exception flowing. There were Overal
accommodate children
the dren in this Colony. But if it is
year after year report that the ladies amongst the audience, and
rather if we
to health of the children in the the speeches delivered belokered western and central districts, as true,
well as those living near Causeway make it true then the first and schools in Hongkong is excellent. keen and lively interest in
of parent most important thing is to ensure For the first class Bay. the subject The Bon. Mr.
the deepest sympathy 3 The pupils in groups (b) (c) the provision of the most perfect 1 have H. E. Pollock. 5. C., Yas
for and the greatest admiration, and I in the chair and be was supported and (d) can probably be best pro-education facilities possible
are would do everything in my power by the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak,vided for by the establishment of the younger generation who the Hon. Mr. E. V. D. Parr, Mr.Central School adapted to meet to inherit the hones that we to ensure that he may be able to H. W. Bird, Mr. Montavce Ese, the needs of all over the age of building and who Are
to carry out his plans with the Mr. A. O. Leng, Mr. Teesdaleine years.
be greatest possible success. carry on the work that we are
A Solemn Warning. Mackintosh and Mr. A. R. Lowe
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After a full consideration of this The Chairman, in opaning the meeting spoke of the great privi-question I retire at this point from lege it was to have been asked to the Committee. I do this with the At the very fall approval of the remaining outset.he desired to make good an Members of the Committee. Omission which occurred inadver The Chairman then called upon tently in publishing the report of Mr. Teesdale Mackintosh to ad- the sub-committee of the Educa- dress the meeting. tion Board upon the education of
Opening Speech. British children in the Colony.
Mr. Mackintosh sail-Some The minority report, signed by Mr. Ralphs, the Inspecter of Eng-you will remember that in Novem
from me by 30 great distance they must receive that special lish Schools, was not published, wer of last year at a public meet and my girls are to be separated tition which awaits them in life and in fairness to him he proposed ng of the Board of Education the home cannot have the meaning training which will fit them for BOOTS, SHOES & SLIPPERS FORLADURS to read it. The Chairman then question was raised as to a new which I want to give it. 1, there that struggle. Now the dicul- read Mr. Ralphs' report as under: site for the. Vietoria British School fare, join issue at once with those ties which we have to face in this farul-at-tirat-meeting-I-found-my-peoplo, who hold that for a boy or Colony in its present condition are Minority Report.
elf protesting against any decision for a girl to continue to remain in mainly three in number. Firstly, 1. The British children in the
eing taken or against any recom. Hongkong under any conditions the shortage of numbers. There Colony may be divided into four mendation being made until the under the age of 10 or 12 is aare only a limited number of Bri- main groups,
the contrary Itish children and you whole problem of the education of misfortune. On (c) those who will remain in the British children in this Colony had would advocate that every possible have a really successful school
Colony until about the age of
been reviewed and until we had encouragement should be given to with all the traditions of a school Photographers. Froto Supplies nine years, then to be sent to
& Preparatory School a; Home; fairly faced the question as to our parents to enable them to keep spirit that have made our British always in stock:roll
so justly renowned throughout the films, (b) those who will remain until motive in providing education of their family intact, to keep their public school so wonderful and children with them by the provision world unless you have a sufficient camers, papers, and pictures of
the age of twelve or thirteen any sort for British
of efficient education facilities in
number of children to whom and years, then leaving to enter a this Colony and the type of educa this Colony. As I say, if I
2m on whom to work. local and S. China views.
Ard this tion we wanted to give them here wrong in this view, then the rest shortage of numbers is made (e) those who will remain at The questions which I raised
of my argument falls to the ground, the age of sixteen or seventeen that meeting are now, in the pro-because it is on this that the whole more difficult by class distinctions and especially the difference of years with the intention of cess to being answered and I take of my argument is based as founda- salaries which prevail out here. going to a Technical College. is that the real object of this publiction. If, however, I am right then In Scotland they have managed to obtain for your children a University College or Univer-eeting is to endeavour as far as undoubtedly education is the most to break down these class distinc-really first class education in sity at Home:
possible to arrive at some common important question and I supposetions and it is true to a large nearly all the non-British schools (d) those who will not be sent agreement as to the correct answer in any case, whether I right extent that in Scotland all the in this Colony. But there are Home, but who will complete to these questions. We shall have or whether I am wrong, the future children, whatever may be the certain practical difficulties which to face this evening quite fearlessly is going to bring more and more position of their parents, attend will meet you if you adopt this
school We view to earning their living and quite frankly the many difficul- Britishers out here, who cannot the same
shall suggestion of the opposition. First in the Colony or in the Farties which best the efficient educa afford to send their children home, have to try and imitate that Scot of all it is obvious that. children in this however much they may wish to tish system cut here. (Applause). you will sacrifice the tradition and tion of British 2. In this. Report the term "Prim-
You have got in do so. ary" is used to indicati schools Colony. We shall have to be pre-
a struggle. Many of us will have public sobool which many of you consisting of Classes for children ared on some points to agree to Colony to-day 117 British children or macy of us it will involve the school spirit of the British
to sink our own individual pren your own life. up to the age of nine years. All compromise and on nearly all points over the age of 9
'a gire and to take. I speak with educated at British schools. There to leam, in this point especially.value as one of the greatest factors chilaren in this group reduire one common type of education. There the greatest heritation and the are more than that if you take judices. to learn to give and
take. Because one thing is clear zreatest diffdence in the fullest those British children, who would be normally in each such
being "educated
that the efficiency of your school quite fit. It is of the utmost im Primary school four Classes, viz.,onsciousness that I am a very new schools. Taking the figures of will depend
a tremendous portance that the teaching of the at attendance Class 7-the highest class in the comer into this Colony, that I can
considerable in attendance. Games which do schools forms a very School-Class 8 and two Kinder- not speak therefore with experience British schools yesterday you will extent on the number of children Chinese classics should in garter Classes. The teaching of or with the authority of many of and there were 147 boys and girls form part of the education of the part in the curriculum. And in my children in these early stages has vou, who have lived long years over the age of nine. There are young cannot be played efficiently opinion it will be very wrong to become a highly specialized art here and to whom I must seem to 129 under the age of nine. That unless your numbers are adequate modify or curtail that part of the and model Kindergarten depart be simply a fool rushing in where means you have a total of 276 Bri- sad my own experience of some syllabus in our Chinese schools ments under fully-trained Kinder- the more experienced have feared tish children being educated here years as a schoolmaster tells me which teaches the Chinese Bay of garten Mistresses should be
to-day. And, therefore, patting it that I cannot teach a small class the Chinese girl the unspeakable
social of children with the same efci-marvels of his own a on its lowest total from Changed Days. Certain questions must be settled and political point of view we are ency and with the same inspira-guage and literature.
bound to see that these children tion as I can teach a larger class.
Difficulties, A Primary school should be established. in
The First Opposition. every district in at the very outset. To certain pro shall have at least equal oppor-
But it is not possible for the Here then, arises the first and which the number of British chil-positions we must give our
tunities in the sphere of education as did their parents.
perhaps the most important op-British boy or girl to learn these dren justifies a separate school. animous conseat before we
position to the proposals for the and these hours which are normally At present four such places are proceed further with the argument.
Three Types of Parent. indicated,-Kowloon, The Peak, First of all I suggest that the
I have met three main types of improvement of British education devoted in the school to these sub- Quarry Bay and Causeway Bay. position of the average Britisher
most before the child is born has them forward Why, says Kowloon and the Peak are already in this Colony is to-day quite dif parent. First, the parent who al- this Colony as we have put jects will have to be spent by the provided for. At Quarry Bay there ferent from what it was, shall we declared that he shall go to such Pponent, why have schools for from that of the rest of the school. British children at all? Why not work which in practice must tura are at the time of writing some say, 20 years ago. In the old days and such a school, shall pass such let them all mix together and at-out to be very bastily supervised and fty children between the ages of a man came to this Colony with and such examinations and shall tend those schools and colleges in liable altogether to be overlooked five and nine years; a Primary the hope and intention of remaining cater such and such a profession, the Colony which have reached and which will in any case class the school would therefore appear to here for but a few years during and he makes his plans accordingly high state of efficiency and which child as one of a rather troublesome at Quarry which time he would look upon him. Secondly, the parent who says, are open to all children irrespec- and unwanted minority, And then Bay. Such a school could be ex-seif as an exile, but at the end I cannot make plans for my child, tive of distinctions of nationality, secondly, this will be done at the
return to I cannot possibly tell for what creed or class? This is a ques- pected to open with DLA average of the time hoping to attendance equal to that at the his own hoins having made sufi-particular profession or trade he tion which is essentially one for expense of the child's knowledge of own English Language and existing Kowloon Junior Schock cient money to render his retura may be fitted in years to come. you British parents to decide and his
(Continued and
There shall, therefore, leave it for the I admit freely that you are able
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HOW DO YOU DO MR. DANNY DUFF? "HOW ARE YOU TODAY?
DO YOU GO TO
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SURE I
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•
Danny Meets the Boss
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AND WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP TO BE A MAN- A LAWYER OR
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2.
1 HAVEN'T DECIDED YET
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