(3) Again, Chinese boys, beware of having passed through a three years' course of memory training in their own Chinese schools before they came to learn English, and being the off-spring of generations whose education for the last two thousand years centred as much in the cultivation of memory as ours consists in the training of the intellect, they come to you with a particularly rich endowment as to the conservative and reproductive faculties, memory and reminiscence. See that in your methods of teaching English, whatever they be, you take advantage of this peculiar gift of Chinese boys. But see also that you guard against the danger which this gift involves, viz. of causing all learning by heart to degenerate rapidly into mere rote learning. The latter comes more naturally to a Chinese than to an English boy. And have patience with your Chinese boys who are as excessively slow to take in anything by way of the intellect as they are quick to pick it up by mere memory.
(4) Further, Chinese boys bring to school a quick ear for tone and accent, which they have derived from the peculiarities of their monosyllabic national language. But this quick ear for tone and accent...
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