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Government may have entertained hopes of winning
the good will of the rising generation
through the establishment of these schools,
appear altogether unrealised."
Thus the expression of opinion that,
in the case of the Chinese, thorough teaching
of the few should be attempted rather than
more widely spread education coupled with
the condemnation of the existing Government
and aided Vernacular Schools, and the
evidence that Private Vernacular Schools
successfully compete with schools which give
free education at the Government expense,
points, as I have said, to the conclusion that
Government money would be better spent if
withheld entirely from Vernacular Schools and
devoted entirely to Anglo-Chinese Schools,
or if such encouragement as is given to
Vernacular Schools were given only in the
form