UNIVERSITY
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OF HONG KONG.
Tel. No. 28056.
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My plea as regards the University's School of Chinese
Studies is that if Chinese Classics are properly taught on the
basis of a properly selected course, then it ought to be possible
for a boy or a girl who has in inclination in that direction, to
take Chinese Classics as one of the subjects for a University degree.
The students of our present Chinese School, can not pass the
Matriculation; they are learning practically nothing else but Chinese
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dore Classics, taught them by Han Lings whold Chimese is of the highest s Awarded
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under the old regime, but who appear to be unemployable except in
Hong Kong. These students, if any of them ever pass through the
four years' course, which appears very doubtful, will get a diploma.
What are they going to do on the strength of that diploma?
The
Hong Kong Education Department will not even have them as Chinese
teachers in their schools. The standard of English taught in the
School of Chinese Studies (it is supposed to be a joint course of
Chinese Classics and of English) is so low that the Professor of
English came to me two or three days ago and said that he was going
to make it quite clear in the Senate at its next meeting, that the
English which was being taught to these students, was of a grade