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EDUCATION OF BRITISH CHILDREN.
FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1923.
A
reached the age of 16 or 17 at the results of some tremendously least. And I should have hoped difficult University scholarship that every British boy who has examination? No, but on the re- reached the age of 18 or 17 should sults of the Hongkong matricula-
examination. The ordinary BEAUTIFUL INSTRUMENT be able to pass the London matri-tion (Continued from Page 2)
culation axamination. (Applause standard of a school leaving certi- literature. For it is clear that your And it will probably surprise many ficate, which every British boy can British children should be able to of you to know what a tremendous automatically and without
by going Attain to a far higher standard in number of opportunities exist inscious effort attain English than the children of these this Colony for your sans if only through the ordinary routine of a school working to that end and |ther races. And thirdly, as they can obtain this standard.
yet so far no British boy has been end, the British child educated
The London Blatric
able to win this scholarship frym
con-
under these conditions is bound to And I say the London matricu-Hongkong! But if there is any have reached the goal or, patting lation examination rather than parent here who wants to make his it into practical language, to have the Hongkong matriculation ex-children engineers or agriculturists eceived a leaving certificate whe has not been expressly designed for
his or her own immediate needs.
tions.
amination.
al;hough the two
he is entitled to demand the crea-i
things are almost identical, betion of a school whose curriculum cause the Londɔu matriculation
can
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pass that The second great dificulty which examination makes a second lan-shall normally and ordinarily pre- we have to overcome is the dimoduage compulsory and it is just pare those boys to
this second language which makes examination. (Applause). ty of distance. We live here as all the difference
The Medical Profession. to the market very scattered community and ralue of the boy. I wonder whe- There must, I imagine, sometimes Jorder for us all to be educated ither we have fully realized that be a boy in Hongkong, or even a one central school many of us will here in this Colony every year, girl, who would like to enter the have to travel quite a long way and thanks to the arrangements which medical profession. Yes, I under diicult and tiresome coadi the Government bave made with bear the father or the mother say the University of London, your I should like my boy or my girl children can sit for the London to become a
doctor. They were Question of Site.
matriculation, for the London clearly fitted for such a life, but Many of us will feel that the cen-Intermediate and for the London how can I possibly afford to send tral school might have been built a Degree. They can take these them home with all the tremendous great deal nearer to our own parti-examinations out here without expense involved of a homa Uni-12 cular house than it has been. Maur going home, without residing in versity and walking the hospitals I us will think that some particular any University and while still at home. It can all be done in section of the community has been pursuing whatever employment Hongkorg. The medical degree of anduly favoured in the particular you may find for them to do when the Hongkong University is site-chosea for the school. And they leave school. And yet dur-cognised by the British Medical A man with that degree lus is one of the points in which the time that I have been in Council.
Hongkong there has been no case is entitled to practice medicine in again we shall have to learn to give of a British boy sitting for the Lon any part of the British Isles or in and take. And the third and the don matriculation examination let any British Fossession. The fees in greatest dificulty is to be found in alone for the higher examinations. this examination are quite inexpen- the fact that most of us once in But I repeat that it should be sive. They work out at something five years go home for a year's long possible for every British boy to under £30 a year and there are leave and during that time they reach that standard at the age
Te
receive practically no education at of 16 or 17 and so to secure for scholarships which can be obtained, I should imagine, almost for the
With
1L This difficulty has certainly himself a recognized market value asking. There are firms here who
as he sets out into life. this certificate he is qualified to have the right of nominating Donor enter into any employment that scholars which entitle the holder to you may find for him in this free tuition. There is the King: Cetous with the very favourable Edward VII Scholarship. two-off
are' awarded which also the holder to free tenable only by British subjects.
got to be realized and probably has
it to be accepted as But if so, it constitutes a reason for using every possible means to ensure that we shall make up for that year's holiday by the keenest tudy the most regular attendance during the other years.
A Large Central School.
lishing his position as an educat-year hope of making good and estab-which
ed man.
A Comparison."
every
entitle
tuition
Place before yourself two boys, All that is required again is that And so it comes about that we the one says "I have been at such the boy shall pass this very simple are asking for one large central and such a school where I have school leaving examination, the school to which all British children received a good sound general matriculation examination. shall be seni, boys as well as girls. education. No, I didn't learn very
I admit quite frankly that I am much mathematics because in
Teaching.
Or is there a boy here or again
not an unmixed admirer of the that particular year my headmas-even a girl who would like to take that mathematics up teaching as a profession? And modern system of co-education and ter decided
shouldn't be taught; no, I didn't what tremendous cperings there
that in many ways I would like learn a second language because are and will be for schoolmasters to see the buys separated from the father thought that language was and schoolmistresses in this part girls during their school hours. } waste of time and mother didn't of the world in the future! Here, But I fully realize that out here held with my
learning French. too, the University provides the efficiency of the school depends (Laughter). But I have had a course which will give you not intensively upon large numbers and good sound general education. Ianly a degree in
of
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is weakened enormously by shior can draw more or less, 1 know the teacher's diplomas. Here, too, tage of numbers, and so, in order dates of the Kings of England and small as the cost of tuition is, there to make up the required number I have learnt a certain amount of pre scholarships which may be which will ensure efficiency, if for geography
Eastern Asia.granted by a very generous govern In other reason, I and if necessary And I got distinction in Biblical ment, or again by these firms who knowledge." (Laughter). Then for the hops and girls to attend the
have, by their subscriptions, ob take the boy who says "I was at same school under the system
tained the right to nominate such and such a school, I passed scholars. And there, too, all that is coeducation.
And that is one the London matriculation examina required is this the reasons why I cannot
school leaving) gretion and then I left." Which of with those of us who are advocating these two boys, do you suppose, ct even yet satisfied what facili-ed the standard of the Home matri-fsidered it advisable, in order to examination. And if ambition is the establishment of a byarding has the better prospects? Both
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school for British children be of them started with exactly the ties there are for post-graduate cufation examination. Yet, I have stimulate discussion, to submit the built either at Weihaiwei or in the same amount of brains. Either of work outside the Colony. Trinity already shown you that he ought to first of the resolutions which had
Such a prepal them might have shared the fate College, Cambridge, offers exhibi-be able to reach that standard already been published in
the does not seeta to cater at all for of the other., Neither of them tions to students coming from us
here by passing the London matrijowspapers. He thọc ght all pre- the education of our girls and have really done
cr less who have graduated with
culation examination out here, sent were agreed that kindergarten other. It hasn't who have passed our Intermediate But I would also remind you that schools were a very real need. He work than the think that such a proposal is tod
It Examination. The Rockefeller expensive to make it feasible for beep a question of cram,
us travelling the Leadon matriculation examins formally moved: "That kinder. simply has been 2. question of Foundation offers quite a number of children here starting from the bottom class, of scholarships to students, who have on will obtain him exemption garten schools for children between besides being unacceptable to those the school with a particular aim graduated in medicine.
from the matriculation of any uni the ages of 5 and 9 years be estab parents who desire their children in view and sticking to it, or start-
versity in The Colony's Facilities.
the world. And 1lished, on the most modern methods, to remain at home in order
toing from the bottom class of the It seems to me the more I think would also remind you that your with specially trained kindergarten enjoy to the full the delights and school with no aim in view but of it that there are facilities in this own University of Hongkong has tongyis in charge, at the Peak, safeguards of 1omelife. But having that of a "sound general educa- Colony far greater than anywhere now been accepted by all the Scot Kowloon, Quarry Hay and Cause. obtained your central school you tion."
else if poly we can get our chilish and all the Northern Universiway Bay." decide what kind of an
drez up
Matriculation ties and that the University has to this
A member of the audience, in education you are going to provide And then take the case of the standard, and it is this, therefore, obtained afiliation with the Univer- secunding, suggested that there there. You must have a permanent by who is cut out for a profession that we must constantly keep in sities of Oxford and Cambridge. should also be a kindergarten school and well trained and efficient staff. in life. There must be some boys view, that we are training our chil- And that is why I for one, ask for a established in the central district.
could indeed your staff raust be the most in this Colony who. bedren for this particular thing, that British central school which shall efficient staf obtainable in the d engineers or good doctors or nothing must be allowed to inter-contain all the British children who only give them the necessary train the very outset we first start
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Mr. J. Grant agreed. I# kindergarten school was erected at Taikoo he thought there WAS of setting up a school for British ing out here at a cost which is to send the tiny toddlers to school
little need for another in the east- children which is in any way short within our means and without hav-we must have that thing in
ern part of the city. He consider. of being the best either as regards Ing to send them home. I cannot mind. It is to be obtained by
ed it would be preferable if one staff, or as regards building, or na myself imagine any place better regular attendance. We must re-depends upon the numbers; that is was established in the central dis- regaris equipment.
equipped with scholarships. Andmember that every time we keep why I ask that the school shall trict near the lower tram terminus, with scholarships and "with facili- Model Kindergartens.
school, work from the very outset from the It was a much our children away For your younger children, as welties for professional training at an whether it be for a tea party or very lowest form, on a syllabus de place than. Causeway Bay. have pointed out, you must pro-almost negligible cost than we in whether it be to suit our own con-[igned for matriculation examina- was a large number of children in vide model kindergartens in all Hongkong. Let me
you yeniarce we are sing sight oftion and that no British boy should the central district and in the very those localities where the size of first of all of what must be the that end and the children will have leave that school without obtainin near future there was a possibility
blue riband of scholarships in the to pay the British community demands it
for it some day. That that certificate. That is why I ask of a good number of Europeans re. Peace Memorial and you must see that those kinder world-the
we ought to look upon that end as that the staff of that school shall b siding at Pokfulum, whose children Scholarship. This Scholarship Karker. schools
part of the cormal, growth in the second to none in the Colony and «auld, hare, to be catered forg thoroughly
which is of the value of £300 sphere of the mind just as we expect that is why most especially and efficient and up-to-date.
The Chairman having mentioned But sterling per annum for three years normal growth in the body. must be careful not to leave your and which in addition will pay
And most emphatically invite the that the report of the sub-Com children too long in this kindur-
then there is one last class of parents to co-operate with the mittee of the Education Board passage of the scholar to any place
out that the schools garten stage and you must
education parent to whom I would address school authorities in ensuring at pointed move in the world, to any them to the central school as soc centre of the world and will later yolf and that is the parent who whatever sacrifice and however should be established at points' as they are ready for
provide him with the balance at would like his boy to go to a Home great the difficulties may be to be where the British community serious side of education and, once the end of his studies to start bim University but would like him to do overcome that that school if and existed, said he was much impress- there they must be educated along off in his carrer is awarded, his schooling out here that, at when erected shall be worthy of the ed by the views of the two speakers lines of'a very definite syllabus which or rather two of them, any rate, until he reaches the age Colony and shall be taking no small and thought perhaps it would be should have a very definite aim in are awarded every three years of 17 or 18, he may have the advan-art in the enbanding of all that is desirable to amend the resolution. view. Not a general education either for Engineering or for tage of home influence and home est in social and imperial progress in sympathy with what they had leading to nowhere but a sound Agriculture, tenable only by training And when the boy has of this small spot in the British vid. and very carefully devised educa British boys of pure white descent reached the age of 17 or 18 and the Empire (Applause.) tion leading to a very definite end on both sides, one of whose parents parent sends him Home he finds to
The Discussion. and aim."I should have hoped that shall have resided in Hongkong or bis horror that he is unable to The Chairman, xaid they were no British children in this Colony China for at least three years. What obtain admission into the Home much indebted to Mr. Mackintosh would leave school until they have is this scholarship awarded on? On University because he hasn't reach for his eloquent address. He con.
the
more
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