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sooner will a knowledge of English be disseminated: but I do not
know
of any
method worth
apart from
a thorough educational training
in
a boy which
Knowledge of English
can at once be acquired
by a large number
of
Chinese
and other foreign residents.
To post Englishmen
as teachers would
involve an
enormous expense; and it is
only now
that
young
Chinese
and Indians who have had
an
English education are
becoming available
as
teachers. In earlier days,
(and the Government system of
education is hardly
a quarter of a century old) it
was not
easy to induce young men
to accept
such posts, as witness the great difficulty that was experienced in starting and retaining
a master for the first attempt,
(that made in the Village of Aberdeen in 1873) to have English taught in other schools besides the Central School.
5.
The establishment of
many schools have been
proposed as
a means of spreading
a knowledge of
colloquial English, especially among...