民計
前學
於理或有未嘗 男得四之三女得四之一似此 塾男女童比較其數亦如疇昔 年去歲實是十增其一但將各 家管轄各塾女童之數較黹前 增至四百三十一名故畧計國
七十九名又查聖會議學前年 得女童三百四十三名去年則 所立不願教門者或各聖會所傳楊天主耶穌二教者無非教人以克已愛人正心修身之道故各塾所關爲國爲民同 三十五名去年頓減僅得一百 小子讀書摹字殊非成全教化之意以此教法不足使人爲民倘欲使國與民並受其益必須使肄業 童各正其心 三百名其間有或書或夜學習英文者約三百名但惜其教英文之法猶有未盡善者天主教書塾未入國家察理者學
查國家義學前年得女童二百 八百四十名又有華人儒教書塾或有學童一千三百名而屬國家察理者共計學童約有三千四百六十名竊思徒教 論及女學較諧兒童似更虧欠 本港各塾教條若何實爲最要按本港除各育嬰堂所有書塾内之小子外有未入國家察理之天主教書塾約有學童 恥以爲香港華人趨下流於不英不華交雜之民而使政刑各有不繁優之事上文所言華人儒教書塾學童一千 天文地理格物致知之道與夫外邦風俗富代規模齊驅幷教如斯固可使在港產育說英語之民且不應有如今日所 人語言者未嘗二什得】故與其教習華文究不如使多人解言英語在港教習英文之爲愈且也若教英文便可兼用 是一般珍貴但念使闔港興盛助國家治理如此蕃地者則說華人語言者十居九五百歐洲人與各署官憲求其解華 各修其身而後乃可但做監院深信上文所陳各塾果增此與國與民蓋各書塾無論華人所遵奉儒教者或國家
4. As regards the education of the girls which is even more neglected in Hongkong than the education of boys the number of girls in Government Schools fell from 235 in 1878 to 179 in 1879, but as the number of girls in Grant-in-aid Schools increased at the same time from 343 in 1878 to 431 in 1879, there has really been an advance made in 1879 amounting to 10 per cent. over the total number of girls in schools under Government supervision in the previous year. The proportion of girls to boys in those schools collectively is still about 1 to 4, which is a very unsatisfactory state of things.
5. The nature of the instruction afforded in the schools of the Colony is a matter of the utmost importance. Not counting the infants in the schools of the Foundling Houses of the Colony, there were about 840 children in Roman Catholic Schools not subject to Government supervision, there were further about 1,300 children in independent native Confucian Schools, and 3,460 were in schools under Government supervision. Now whilst considering that mere teaching of reading and writing and so forth is not education, and does not in itself tend to produce better citizens, but that the kind of instruction which would benefit the State and Public Society must have a tendency to form a high moral character in the scholars, I still believe that every one of those schools above mentioned contributes to a certain degree such real benefit to Public Society and to the State. For in all those schools, whether they be purely native and therefore Confucian, or purely Government Schools and therefore secular, or Grant-in-aid Schools and as such Christian Schools, all the children in these schools are being imbued with the principles of love and self-sacrifice, with the spirit of a pure and elevating system of morality. So far all those schools are on the whole of equal value to the Government and to the community. But what is of specially great importance to the prosperity of the Colony and to the administration of the Government in a Colony like this, where over 95 per cent. of the population speak Chinese only and scarcely 5 per cent. of the European residents and officials speak or understand anything of Chinese, is an extensive promotion of a knowledge of English. The principal advantage of English teaching in this Colony, compared with Chinese, is this that the teaching is then combined with the enhanced educational influences of natural science and modern civilisation, and that it furnishes the means of creating here an Anglo-Chinese community in place of that hybrid form of social life, with pidgin English speech, towards which the Chinese community in Hongkong must otherwise continue to drift to the great embarrassment of the Executive and Judicial departments of the Government. Out of those 1,300 scholars in independent native schools (including night schools) about 300 are taught English in a very imperfect fashion. Of the 840 scholars in Roman Catholic Schools, not under Government supervision, I assume 400 to receive
民計
前學
於理或有未赏 男得四之三女得四之一似此 塾男女童比較其數亦如疇昔 年去歲實是十增其一但將各 家管轄各塾女童之數較黹前 增至四百三十一名故畧計國
七十九名又查聖會議學前年 得女童三百四十三名去年則 所立不願教門者或各聖會所傳楊天主耶穌二教者無非教人以克已愛人正心修身之道故各塾所關爲國爲民同 三十五名去年頓減僅得一百 小子讀書摹字殊非成全教化之意以此教法不足使人爲民倘欲使國與民並受其益必須使肄業 童各正其心 三百名其間有或書或夜學習英文者約三百名但惜其教英文之法猶有未盡善者天主教書塾未入國家察理者學
查國家義學前年得女童二百 八百四十名又有華人儒教書塾或有學童一千三百名而屬國家察理者共計學童約有三千四百六十名竊思徒教 論及女學較諧兒童似更虧欠 本港各塾教條若何實爲最要按本港除各育嬰堂所有書塾内之小子外有未入國家察理之天主教書塾約有學童 恥以爲香港華人趨下流於不英不華交雜之民而使政刑各有不繁優之事上文所言華人儒教書塾學童一千 天文地理格物致知之道與夫外邦風俗富代規模齊驅幷教如斯固可使在港產育說英語之民且不應有如今日所 人語言者未嘗二什得】故與其教習華文究不如使多人解言英語在港教習英文之爲愈且也若教英文便可兼用 是一般珍貴但念使闔港興盛助國家治理如此蕃地者則說華人語言者十居九五百歐洲人與各署官憲求其解華 各修其身而後乃可但做監院深信上文所陳各塾果增此與國與民蓋各書塾無論華人所遵奉儒教者或國家
4. As regards the education of the girls which is even more neglected in Hongkong than the education of boys the number of girls in Govern- Juent Schools feil firom 235 in 1878 to 179 in 1879, but as the nuinber of girls in Grant-in-aid
Schools increased at the same time from 343 in 1878 to 431 in 1879, there hits really been an advance made in 1879 amounting to 10 per cent.
over the total number of girls in schools under
Government supervision in the previous year. The proportion of girls to boys in those schools
collectively is still about 1 to 4, which is a very unsatisfactory state of things.
5. The nature of the instruction afforded in
the schools of the Colony is a matter of the ut-
most importance. Not counting the infants in
the schools of the Foundling Houses of the Co-
lony, there were about 840 children in Roman
Catholic Schools not subject to Government
supervision, there were further about 1,300 chil-
dren in independent native Confucian Schools, and 3,460 were in schools under Government super-
vision. Now whilst considering that mere teach-
ing of reading and writing and so forth is not education, and does not in itself tend to produce
better citizens, but that the kind of instruction
which would benefit the State and Public Society must have a tendency to form a high moral cha racter in the scholars, I still believe that every one of those schools above mentioned contributes
to a certain degree such real benefit to Public Society and to the State. For in all those schools, whether they be purely native and therefore Confucian, or purely Government Schools and therefore secular, or Grant-in-aid Schools and as
such Christian Schools, all the children in these schools are being imbued with the principles of love and self-sacrifice, with the spirit of a pure
and elevating system of morality. So far all those schools are on the whole of equal value to the Government and to the community. But what
is of specially great importance to the prosperity of the Colony and to the administration of the Government in a Colony like this, where over 95 per cent. of the population speak Chinese only and scarcely 5 per cent. of the European residents and officials speak or understand anything of Chinese, is an extensive promotion of a know- ledge of English. The principal advantage of English teaching in this Colony, compared with Chinese, is this that the teaching is then com- bined with the enhanced educational influences of natural science and modern civilisation, and that it furnishes the means of creating here an Anglo-Chinese community in place of that hybrid form of social life, with pidgin English specch, towards which the Chinese community in Hongkong must otherwise continue to drift to the great embarrassment of the Executive and Judicial departments of the Government. Out of those 1.300 scholars in independent native schools
(including night schools) about 300 are taught English in a very imperfect tashion. Of the $40 scholars in Roman Catholic Schools, not under Government supervision. I assume 400 to receive
民計
前學
於理或有未赏 男得四之三女得四之一似此 塾男女童比較其數亦如疇昔 年去歲實是十增其一但將各 家管轄各塾女童之數較黹前 增至四百三十一名故畧計國
七十九名又查聖會議學前年 得女童三百四十三名去年則 所立不願教門者或各聖會所傳楊天主耶穌二教者無非教人以克已愛人正心修身之道故各塾所關爲國爲民同 三十五名去年頓減僅得一百 小子讀書摹字殊非成全教化之意以此教法不足使人爲民倘欲使國與民並受其益必須使肄業 童各正其心 三百名其間有或書或夜學習英文者約三百名但惜其教英文之法猶有未盡善者天主教書塾未入國家察理者學
查國家義學前年得女童二百 八百四十名又有華人儒教書塾或有學童一千三百名而屬國家察理者共計學童約有三千四百六十名竊思徒教 論及女學較諧兒童似更虧欠 本港各塾教條若何實爲最要按本港除各育嬰堂所有書塾内之小子外有未入國家察理之天主教書塾約有學童 恥以爲香港華人趨下流於不英不華交雜之民而使政刑各有不繁優之事上文所言華人儒教書塾學童一千 天文地理格物致知之道與夫外邦風俗富代規模齊驅幷教如斯固可使在港產育說英語之民且不應有如今日所 人語言者未嘗二什得】故與其教習華文究不如使多人解言英語在港教習英文之爲愈且也若教英文便可兼用 是一般珍貴但念使闔港興盛助國家治理如此蕃地者則說華人語言者十居九五百歐洲人與各署官憲求其解華 各修其身而後乃可但做監院深信上文所陳各塾果增此與國與民蓋各書塾無論華人所遵奉儒教者或國家
4. As regards the education of the girls which is even more neglected in Hongkong than the education of boys the number of girls in Govern- Juent Schools feil firom 235 in 1878 to 179 in 1879, but as the nuinber of girls in Grant-in-aid
Schools increased at the same time from 343 in 1878 to 431 in 1879, there hits really been an advance made in 1879 amounting to 10 per cent.
over the total number of girls in schools under
Government supervision in the previous year. The proportion of girls to boys in those schools
collectively is still about 1 to 4, which is a very unsatisfactory state of things.
5. The nature of the instruction afforded in
the schools of the Colony is a matter of the ut-
most importance. Not counting the infants in
the schools of the Foundling Houses of the Co-
lony, there were about 840 children in Roman
Catholic Schools not subject to Government
supervision, there were further about 1,300 chil-
dren in independent native Confucian Schools, and 3,460 were in schools under Government super-
vision. Now whilst considering that mere teach-
ing of reading and writing and so forth is not education, and does not in itself tend to produce
better citizens, but that the kind of instruction
which would benefit the State and Public Society must have a tendency to form a high moral cha racter in the scholars, I still believe that every one of those schools above mentioned contributes
to a certain degree such real benefit to Public Society and to the State. For in all those schools, whether they be purely native and therefore Confucian, or purely Government Schools and therefore secular, or Grant-in-aid Schools and as
such Christian Schools, all the children in these schools are being imbued with the principles of love and self-sacrifice, with the spirit of a pure
and elevating system of morality. So far all those schools are on the whole of equal value to the Government and to the community. But what
is of specially great importance to the prosperity of the Colony and to the administration of the Government in a Colony like this, where over 95 per cent. of the population speak Chinese only and scarcely 5 per cent. of the European residents and officials speak or understand anything of Chinese, is an extensive promotion of a know- ledge of English. The principal advantage of English teaching in this Colony, compared with Chinese, is this that the teaching is then com- bined with the enhanced educational influences of natural science and modern civilisation, and that it furnishes the means of creating here an Anglo-Chinese community in place of that hybrid form of social life, with pidgin English specch, towards which the Chinese community in Hongkong must otherwise continue to drift to the great embarrassment of the Executive and Judicial departments of the Government. Out of those 1.300 scholars in independent native schools
(including night schools) about 300 are taught English in a very imperfect tashion. Of the $40 scholars in Roman Catholic Schools, not under Government supervision. I assume 400 to receive
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