Sir,
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REG? 28 OCT 01
Hong Kong
2nd March 1901.
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On behalf of an important and influential section of the Chinese Community we desire respectfully to draw the attention of His Excellency the Governor to the urgent need for a suitable English School for the education of the children - both boys and girls - of the upper classes of the Chinese, resident in this Colony.
The efforts of the Government have hitherto been directed almost exclusively to the spread of an elementary education among what may be called the lower and lower middle classes both Chinese and non-Chinese.
But the higher and more thorough training of the children of the more well-to-do classes has never been provided for.
The Queen's College and the Belilios Public School are excellent Government institutions in their way, but the exceedingly large number of pupils attending these schools and the paucity of English teachers, and the indiscriminate and intimate intermingling of children from families of the most various social and moral standing, render them absolutely undesirable, as well as unsuitable for the sons and daughters of respectable Chinese families.
As Government Board Schools the above institutions answer their purposes admirably, but, we submit that in view of the large increase to the Chinese population of a higher social status and permanently residing in this Colony, it is time that some provision should be made for a secondary education for their children.
At present Chinese who wish to give their children a proper English education are faced with significant challenges.
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