128
23.
N° 2629. /90 conveys
The Secretary of State's decision that it is not yet desirable to remove the Exam" from the supervision of the Inspector states that I was
of
Schools". C.O.D. N
14/93.
1 of the
" under a misapprehension in supposing that there
intention of putting the College into the hands either of
is
any
a.
management of Board or of O. Eitel.
I am at a loss therefore to understand when Dr Eitel was released from his supervision examination as Inspector of Schools, and
of
the
when he was appointed Manager of Victoria College, the position he assumes in his letter N. 57.
to
me,
To this mistake on his part, appears
to be due, the absence.
of any attempt to discover the real attainments of the boys, which is the true test of a master's teaching ability and
of
the success or
method in force.
failure of the organisation
3. Procedure.
Better of 89
I gave
the paper to one of
the leading Chinese gentlemen of the colony and he at once declared he could not discover any sense in the whole paper, when I told him the meaning he assured me that the Chinese construction failed to convey it.
In
paragraph 3 of my
letter No
Letter N83
24
I
I have protested against papers being set on work
In not done by the classes under exam Minute II of my
89 of 21st August I have shown that Chinese Geography and History find a proper place in the curriculum of the College. If Dr Eitel wished to emphasise
his protest against the faults of the teaching would have secured his object better by examining boys in what they were taught. In Minute A of my
letter No89
I
pointed out the evils arising from a conference between the Subordinate Masters and the
4.
letter No 83 of Lettinct
Inspector of
Schools.
Head Master
In paragraph 5 of my 4th August I have shown clearly that the Head Master held no examination whatever. I wrote to Dr Eitel in the spirit of that paragraph warning him that there was no uniform standard, as the questions had been set and papers marked by each master, and that I found it hopeless to evolve order out of the chaos resulting from his suggestion of substituting the ordinary monthly class examination for the half yearly College
Chinese
exam
The test paper for translation from was not of native authorship, but
consisted of
passages from the Book of Proverbs turned into Chinese by European missionaries!
4. Building
The opening paragraph of my
Annual Report 8/93 shows that the empty seats are due to foresight,
allow
of
my
object being
to
considerable increase of attendance without crowding and without increase of expenditure by appointment of additional masters.
is
The cleanliness
of the classrooms is generally admired by all visitors, including the Chief Justice who reported that the place
was