than the lower classes, and teaching them well.
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This would seem to point to withholding Government aid from all or most of the Vernacular Schools which now receive it and confining it to the higher schools in which English is taught; and there is much in the report that tends to support this conclusion.
I note for instance that the Committee state that for the reason given in their words, as quoted above, they have paid much more attention in their report, to the Anglo Chinese schools than to the Vernacular.
I note too from paragraph 11 of the report that the private Vernacular Schools which receive no aid from Government attract as many pupils as indeed in 1901 they attracted considerably more than the Government