2, Richmond Terrace) Whitehall,
7th May, 1936.
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my dear Barney,
I wonder whether you sw when you were in Hong
'Kong the enclosed history? As it is probable that I
shell be out of England when the Hong Kong government's
views on your report are considered by the Committee I
am drawing your attention to the book because it seems
to me to indicate forcibly some of the defects that you
noted in the present school certificate course in Hong
Kong. Something will obviously have to be done to
insist on your plea for simplification receiving attention, whatever the Hong Kong Education Department
may asy.
In conversation with Handyside I gathered that
he could see no faults in the book or in the certificate
course for which it is intended. When I referred to
the difficulty of the language and of much of the subject
matter ne said that no attempt had been made to simplify
either beesuse school certificate candidates usually
steyed in the schools till the age of 19 or 20.
When