35. So much for what has been done. Table VI points to a large field still uncultivated. The number of children in the Colony who get no education is roughly estimated at 11,000. What can e done for these it is very hard to say. If schools were already built to accommodate the whole of bem, a very small percentage would attend them. Disinclination is one great drawback; poverty * perhaps
a greater. Compulsory education would uproot the evil; but is compulsory education ble here? I confess myself unable to give an answer. even thousand children were compelled to go to school, food and clothing would have to be sup One thing is quite certain, that if these to them. In many cases, lodging would have to be provided for them also. A large propor plied
of the children live in boats, which are here to-day and somewhere else to-morrow. About one alf of them, too, are girls, for whom education is considered not a superfluity merely, but a mistake. 36. The first question, therefore, which calls for an answer is not-Shall we liave compulsory lucution? but-low are these two enemies of eluention, poverty and prejudice, to be overcome? When that has been satisfactorily answered, the rest is easy; but, until that has been so answered, it is hopeless to attempt to educate. That our criminal classes are largely recruited from the ranks of the ignorant and idle is beyond a doubt. The bont boys on the Praya commence their career with pricking rice bags, follow that up with picking pockets, and end their days as pirates.
sirability of education is but too evident; but how it is to be necomplished is a difficulty which All remains.
I have the honour to be,
The
The Honourable J. Gaupiser AUSTIN.
Colonial Secretary,
St.
$8.
1. Menderu,
& Apeii Chat,
1 lowrington,
Sir.
Your most obedient Servant,
FREDERICK STEWART, Inspector of Guerrument Schools.
TABLE I.
Xusner of Sestorans, fanght in the Government Schools during 1871, and Expense of ruch Schnol.
***
4 Central Seliool,
Hok Cu, 1. Kong Ilom.
Little Hongkong, + Ma-na Ch'ung §. Ma-t'nu Ts'ün,
H. Mong Kok,
| Pok-Til Lam,
E Shan-ki Wang
I shek Shán,
K Stanley,
E-LATUAN
MAYANDOTATAVUREN PAIONON
K Tal Wong Kung,
Tang-lung Chau, (Hak-ka),
Tang-lung Chau. (l'un-ti),
W. To-kwa Wún, (Ilak-ka),
4. To-kwa Wán, ([Iok-10)..........................................
Weluster's Crescent,
2. West End,
West Point, (Ink-ka),"
West Point, (Puu-ti),
4. Wong-nai Cli*ung
1. Yau-ina Ti,
WILAY
+
Bors.
Gruis.
TOTAL.
EXPENSE
$
C.
2289-==3588285962839882282
1
26
124.00
52
I+U
65,00
22
75
874.00
367
10,719.82
56
ST
593.00
16
16
(1.60
15
62.00
23
63.00
17
63.00
1
54
G6.00
받았
62.00
12
12
40.00
34
120.50
17
1.50
43
324.00
264.00
14
123.00
33
148.00
20
63.00
19
1
20
80.60
87
354,00
33
256,00
62
251.00
77
251.00
02
129.00
1
75
63.00
1,201
91
1,292
14,715.82
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