COPY:
91855-1
MEMORANDUM with reference to the action taken within
the Education Department in respect of :-
(1)
(2)
(3)
Chinese Syllabus in "English" schools.
Vernacular Middle School.
The study of Kwok Yu.
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(1).
In December 1930 the Director of Education invited
six Chinese gentlemen under the chairmanship of the Senior
Inspector of Vernacular Schools to examine the existing
Chinese syllabus in "English" schools with a view to the
revision thereof.
too heavy.
The Committee found that the existing syllabus was
A new syllabus was drawn up affecting each of the
eight years from the beginning of the study of English to the
Matriculation stage.
Classes in "English" schools are numbered 8 to 1,
the latter being the last year of school life. In classes
6,5 and 4 Mencius is read and in Class 3 selections from the
first part of the Analects.
Thus in the school syllabus generally only a portion
instead of the whole of the Four Books is taken. Chinese
Geography has been omitted, the syllabus of Chinese History
has been reduced and the aim of the whole of the revised course
is to give students a more practical knowledge of the written language so that ability to read and write Chinese becomes the
standard for the Matriculation.
The revised syllabus came into force on January 1st
1932, and that for the final year has been accepted by the
University of Hong Kong for the (ordinary) Matriculation
examination, in which an essay from the first volume of the
Confucian Analects is alternative to an essay on a general
subject.
(2)