Central School. The Central School for Girls was started by the Govern. the purpose of providing,
ment, for at public expense, what private. educationists would not supply, viz; education for Eurasian (half caste) girls
and unore
rian
particularly
English
ov
an unsecta.
Anglo-Chinese
education for girls of all classes and nationalities. There was no
ciable demand for such
The aim was a demand. The
Eurasian.
a
appre-
School.
to create
deliberately The facts were these:
girls,
as a clase, remained
outside the education net altogether;
Churieze
girls, whose
whose future husbands
receive an
English education, were
and are kept in the low groove. of
a
purely Churiese education and
thus under the curse
L...
of polygamy;
for European. and Indian girls
there was
zvo
unsectarian
L-
- English Girls
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Girls' school in the Colony. Governor Sir William Des Voeut having
courageously adopted these views, the School was opened, with 25 Extrasian children, on 14 March 1890. It had been intended to amalgan te with this new
English School two previously
existing Government Schools (Girls " Schools Nr. 1 and 2) which give
Churiese
Currese
1o.
girls a purely education. Want of accommodation however necessitated & postponement.
of
this amalgamation. Daving thus been started separately, the new Girls Central School got successively three different seadmistresses in 18 months, the first and second having resigned owing
to their getting These changes
married.
and the defective -
accommodation hampered
tarded the development of
the
school at its most critical period.
Nevertheless
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