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master of the Central School for the First Master, together with
a letter from D.J.F. Stewart the
late Head Master recommending
that
some one
with
a
University Education
(which Mr Falconer has not had) should
be selected.
Neither Mr Falconer in
teaching English to the Chinese.
3.
Unfortunately both I
Stewart and Mr Falconer did not at
all succeed in this respect. They
both were very
good
teachers
of English to
European boys; but perhaps for
reasons beyond their
control,
as
This application
nor D. Stewart in
his observations on
anything
in
the question, say
that which, I have from
time to time endeavoured, - to some
extent I
fear
in vain to
impress
upon them both, namely that the principal qualification for this post should be a
capacity for
self-control, such
their lack of sympathy with the
Chinese pupils, they share in the
responsibility of the lamentable and
complete failure
of
the
Central
School as
an institution for teaching English
to the Chinese of Hongkong.
4.
D.J.
Dr Legg who is a Professor of Chinese at Oxford, in a
paper he published some years ago