That which chiefly prevents the masters of this School from adopting their methods to the peculiar needs of their Chinese scholars, is the fact that no one master appears to have a free hand to choose methods, or elaborate his own on...
When I questioned masters as to why they did not apply certain obvious principles to the peculiar needs of their classes, I was invariably told that they are not at liberty to follow their own judgment in anything.
(6) Finally, the greatest curse of this Institution is the neglect of teaching elementary English in order to make a persistent attempt to secure for Oxford... the showy results of a secondary or high school. This is done before and instead of making this institution first of all a successful elementary school. Everything is sacrificed in this school to the desire of sending up a dozen boys every year to the Oxford Local Examinations (where a boy without being able to write a sentence in idiomatic English can gain honours), instead of enabling the remaining 700 boys mentally to assimilate solid English learning with their previous attainments in Chinese knowledge and to send them out into practical life fitted for it by the ability of speaking, reading, and writing English as well as Chinese with at least equal facility.
Suggestions as to ... The Study of Chinese child nature.
In conclusion, I hope you...