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with an equal desire with the Government for the advance of Education in the Colony, combine a knowledge of what can and what cannot be done, which must necessarily be greater, if I may venture to say so, than that of an Inspector of Schools, drawn from some other Department of Government service, and of no personal experience in the work of teaching. It should, I think, be the aim of the Government in making any future appointment to the office of Inspector of Schools to secure the services of one who has himself had experience in Education, and if possible in the education of Chinese.
I would further lay every great stress on the necessity of training good Native Masters. The proposal that English Masters should be employed to teach in all the Anglo-Chinese Schools, I consider to be wholly visionary. The Government has not been able to maintain a sufficient qualified staff to teach all the Anglo-Chinese Schools that ought to be established. But even if that could be done, a very large proportion of the work of Education in the Colony must still be done by Chinese, who can, as I know from experience, do excellent work if properly trained; but who, of course, need proper training.
(4) I have barely touched on the proposals with regard to Government Schools. With the command of ample means, it is much more easy for the Government to make experiments, such, for instance, as compelling its masters to spend a year or two in learning Chinese; but it must be remembered that many of the proposals of the draft Report are but experiments based, it may be, on sound principles, and that some of these, though