Wán-tsai and Sui-ying-p'ún. As none of these schools however was carried on since the begin-
ning of the year, it is impossible at present to sny much about them. But I feel confident that
in Wán-tsai and Sai-ying-p‘ún it will sooner or later be found necessary to enlarge the teaching
staff in order to meet the demand for English
teaching in these localities. All the other Gov-
ernment schools, outside the Central School,
give only vernacular teaching, and the amount
and quality of instruction they provide is no
better than that of an ordinary village school in
the interior of China. Some of these schools are
called Aided Schools, because the original ar-
rangement was that for each of these schools the
respective village community should provide one
half of the teacher's salary in kind and the Gov-
ernment provide the other half in money. In
reality however the teacher levies a rate on each
boy in attendance and has generally great diffi-
culty in obtaining even that. In some of these
schools I discovered soon after beginning the
work of inspection, that systematic falsification of the daily attendance roll had been practised in
thesc schools for months. These Aided Schools
require sharp supervision and are after all com- paratively of little use. It would be better, in
my opinion, if the Government would take over these schools altogether and place better teachers in them.
7. The Grant-in-aid schools number now 17, as against 14 in 1877, and 12 in 1876. The total number of children presented for examination in these schools at the end of the year amounted to 557, as against 459 in 1877, and 390 in 1876. Ac- cordingly the amount total earned by the Grant- in-aid schools amounted to $4,811.53, as against $3,752.90 in 1877, and $1,707.00 in 1876. The
difference in the amounts annually earned is caused, in the first instance, by the increase of the value of passes introduced in 1877, and in
the second instance by a steady increase from
year to year in the number of schools placed
under the Grant-in-ail system, in the number of
scholars presented for examination and the per-
centage of scholars who passed successfully.
爲便易也
須嚴查而亦無甚大用故不如國家全理其事則請善教之師較 中查有掌教數位於登錄日記紙一事有作弊者此等義學必 學之父兄收討但亦甚難收得耳敵監院初署理時在此等義學 稍類中國內地村落之館另有十餘問國家輔翼者初國家與 人約堂教修金各支一半惟鄉人一半實則該掌教向有子弟來 書院外之義學均乃專教華文者致在彼徒之多寡師之優劣則 灣仔兩義學學童必漸增多且宜多請教師以資教化也其餘大
然均未教足一年故此未能言其優劣但按保監院位見西營盤
千八百七十七年則領銀三千七百五十二元
發於聖會議學於一千八百七十六年有十二 八百七十六年則領銀一千七百零七大元一 十七名而該義學所領國家獎賞之項在一千 年時則有四百五十九名去年時則有五百五 十六年時則有三百九十名一千八百七十七 十七間其中學童歲杪來應考者一千八百七 圓一千八百七十七年有十四間而去年則有
稍足
徵重
教百
取列者亦年年增多 法者多增數間三因該義學學童來應考者及 甄別之法甚嚴肅亦甚公平雖有章 因前歲初增獎賞之歎二因該義學入甄別之 善嘖有繁似不甘服者然彼亦明知 仙兹三年間其數相去若是之遠未嘗無故一 有善故以該掌教等初嫌甄別之法未 九毫去年則領銀四千八百一十一元五三 有不識者但前監督學院如此寬容實 因考溫習之書數行加以此款幾何見 照前定章限錯若干字一款未免太寬 須依前監督學院所定程乃不違例 懊考察但甄之法敝監院未便自專 璧者良以學童被取若是之多固宜詳 知此稍宜撙節蓋瑜中有我未臻全 多此事足徵教法退年較勝而亦要 程亦能通! 整肅此其時矣
花之有較單
書錯
善有
噴善
未實累
者別故
But this high percentage of passes, although it certainly indicates a steady increase of efficiency, must be taken cum grano salis. The examina- tions from which these passes resulted were con- ducted in the most minute and painstaking manner, but I had to follow certain printed rules of my predecessor fixing the number of mistakes allowed in each subject. These rules are far too liberal as, in some subjects, they make a failure almost impossible in an ordinarily well taught school. My predecessor had very good reason for this excessive liberality, because the teachers had at first many prejudices against and were very. reluctant to submit to the Grant-in-aid ex- aminations. But now that the examinations under the Grant-in-aid scheme are well under- stood to be conducted strictly but fairly and on