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"It is with curious inconsistency that this
same proposal is not made to apply to the Government
Belilios Girls' School."
There is no inconsistency, and the suggestion
that a Government School has been favoured as opposed
to Grant Schools is hardly fair. The Committee believe
that Female Education is not yet ripe for the proposed reforms. The benefit of this opinion is given equally
to the Grant Schools, such as the Italian Convent or
the Diocesan School for Girls.
"The proposal that it should be compulsory &c.
The proposal is on the contrary, that it
shall be compulsory to schools desiring to earn a more
than doubled Grant. Those content to go on in the
present unsatisfactory way will remain practically
unaltered until their places can be filled by the
Chinese Classes of the Vernacular Schools. (See Section
49).
"I would further lay very great stress etc.
His Lordship though invited to do so did not
give us any suggestion as to how he proposed to overcome the obvious practical difficulties in the way of
establishing a satisfactory training College. (See
Section 94 of the Report).
Apart from that, his lordship does not
appear to have mastered the details of the scheme proposed.
"Some