There has been a steady increase during the last four years in the general number of Schools and scholars subject to Government supervision.
3. Distinguishing, however, the Schools under Government management from the Schools under denominational managers, to whom the Government gives Grants-in-aid on the basis of Government inspection and examination, we had in 1880 in the Government Schools 2,078 scholars, as compared with 2,043 in 1879, 2,101 in 1878, and 2,148 in 1877, whilst we had in 1880 in the denominational Grant-in-aid Schools 1,808 scholars, as compared with 1,417 in 1879, 1,051 in 1878, and 996 in 1877. There has therefore been a steady increase during the last four years in the number of scholars attending denominational Grant-in-aid Schools, subject to Government examination, and an almost continuous decrease in the number of scholars attending Government Schools, although the number of Government Schools was gradually increased from 30 in 1877 and 1878 to 31 in 1879, and 36 in 1880.
間童管全
間遞年增益
童總數在此四年
三百十時千四十名三八
千七二有八百九於千百
名三百六年 一八八
百七於千七
時千百十 之四
一十名有八八年
4. But whilst there has been thus a continuous steady increase during the last four years in the total number of Schools and scholars subject to the supervision of the Government, the population of the Colony has also been increasing, and although the number of native Schools, unaided and uncontrolled by the Government, has also steadily increased, I do not think that we have reduced, to any appreciable extent, the number of children in the Colony (from 6–15 years of age) for whom there are no Schools of any sort provided. I calculate the number of such uneducated children in the Colony, for whose education no provision is made, to amount still to about 14,000.
5. As regards the education of girls, which continues to be strangely neglected in Hongkong, the number of girls in Government Schools fell from 257 in 1877 to 235 in 1878 to 179 in 1879, and to 138 in 1880. The cause of this steady decrease in the number of girls attending Government Schools is the natural objection the Chinese have to men teaching in and superintending Girls-schools, in consequence of which the Chinese much prefer to send their girls to the denominational Girls-schools, which, though subject to Government supervision and examination, are taught and managed by Ladies. In these Grant-in-aid Schools, the number of girls steadily advanced from 343 in 1878 to 431 in 1879 and 561 in 1880. But this number is still out of all proportion to the number of girls for whose education provision ought to be made.
千之多
之方者會計意者向有一萬四
此之孩童未蒙訓誨領受教化
者數亦未嘗減少倘將本港如
以至十五歲而未嘗入塾就學
院愚見以爲本港孩童自六歲
數亦遞年增益雖如是按敝監
民間書塾未入國家管轄者其
而全港居民總數亦有增益且
館之學童總數遞年陸續增益
查此四年間雖國家管轄各書
未將千百十義師往教者童百十年得學至
得該八七八學各女華八八九時女女
當數百十年女教聖館人國十年減童童女
較八九時童管會而嚴家年時少二遞學
諸十年得之理之管於義時頓得百年一
全年時數理學再減二五減端
港時得童遞館之女之減得百十少在
所得女三年查即因有數僅一三七於香
來童 四增國 家華之禮減百十名一八勝
學五百十家轄極不少三九於千百十查
六十名一賞考樂悅推十名一八七乏无
教十一於千之察遣有原八於千百十查
·化一名一八各而其男其名一八七七國
者名於千百有女童掌意女八七八時義