I might as well be done before or after school hours. I may be wrong, but the impression I have received is that of you - I do not say as a rule during school hours - doing all that kind of schoolwork which every teacher in Europe has to do at home.
IX: Passing on now from European methods to questions of method for Chinese schools, I must again refer to myself. It has been publicly suggested, in the Daily Press and in the last official Report of this School, that I am a theorist. Well, I will tell you what my theory of educational method is. It is with me a settled conviction, derived not from books but from a life spent in connection with schools and teachers, that a school, whether in Europe or in China, does best if you secure for it men who are born teachers and then leave each man to use his own judgment as to method, keeping him only alert to the necessity of constantly watching that species of child-nature which he has under his eyes.
A master must use his own judgment. In fact, my experience is that a method which works wonders under the hands of one Master would ruin a class under the hands of another, and that a good teacher will, under any circumstances, construct his own method adapted to ...