2, Richmond Terrace Whitehall, S.1
7th May, 1936.
my dear Burney,
I wonder whether you saw when you were in Hong
Kong the enclosed history? As it:18√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 couree in Hong
Kong. Something will obviously have to be done to
insist on your plead for simplification receiving
attention, whatever the Hong Kong Education Department
may say.
In conversation with Hendyside I gathered that
he could see no faults in the book or in the certifieate
course for which it is intended. When I referred to
the difficulty of the language und of much of the subject
matter ne said that no attempt had been made to simplify
either because school certificate candidates usually
stayed in the schools till the age of 19 or 20.
When
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