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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1929.

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EDUCATION IN COLONY

Utility Of Public Examinations

"THE CREDIT SYSTEM "

to

Children will,

for

a body and a soul. To neglect the education of the soul is ito fall in the primary and essential end of all education. How many careers, though suc- cessful from a wordly point of view, have been rank failures, and how many have, in their longing to. reach the pinnacle of material suc ceas, lost sight of the one thing that really matters because the educa- tion which should have been was With the examinations which ment. It is a way, but is it the not given. take place this month in the schools only way? It is certainly a work-wilfully, but because the call upon It was neglected, not of the Colony, it may be anlding method when, let us say, a num-time to prepare for examinations Canys the "Rock") that, alber are competing for a position or swamped the realization, if not the though the pupils are not immedia scholarship, but of what practical thought, of the necessity of it. FANLING HUNT & RACE CLUB.ately dismissed, the school year in use is the system in school life as

Spiritual Helps Hong Kong comes to an end. The an adjuster of competitive claims?: We are at the end of the school THE following Dates have been succeeding weeks up to Christmas There are no competitive claline.year and soon will be at the begin-

are rather a time of post-mortems There is this further disadvantage ning of another. YOUNG GIRL needs employment as Steeple Chase. Meetings at Kwan/And of dolee far niente, of anxiety that the examiner does not know (once again, be entrusted to teachers and of expectations put the re- the candidates. He has probably to be educated and made fit to take sults are published. Many caustic never met them, He examines their place in remarks anent the papers will be papers not boys nor girls, and be-marches on the highway of life.. To the army that made by all concerned. That is cause of that. tests very often do do that work properly it is not only natural. for one cannot please what they should not do. They give enough

The great fact, how a lazy, good-for-nothing, brilliant examinations and for material auc-

prepare them everybody. ever, is that for all it is the end youngster, 'who is the quintessence cess, they must be armed with the of the school year and for many of sang-froid, a high place which spiritual helps the end of school life.

he, an his diligence and conduct which the teacher, taking the place necessary, helps Opinions as to the utility of during the year, does not deserve, of parents who but too often neglect public examinations are very vari- and leave the steady plodder, not so their duty, is bound in conscience ed. Some would abolish them alto- brilliant, who is tired out at the to provide. Our ideal should be gether, some have actually abolish-end of a year's genuine work. in and I am now speaking as a teacher ed them, and, in their place, have the lurch. The results of the to teachers to send out the pupils introduced what they call "The examinations should not depend entrusted to our care as well train- Credit System."

solely on the brilliance of the in-ed morally and mentally, and, I may In "The Credit System" the pro-dividual, but they do and in the add, physically, as we can motion of a pupil from one class present systems it cannot be other them, and only by the earnestness to another University does not de- done during the year. Oh, but the and not by the results of examina- to and from school or col-wise. No account is made of work of our endeavour to reach that ideal rend on the result of an examinareaults are a good criterion of that. tions should our success at the end tion at the end of the scholastic Are they? Experience shows that of the school year be judged. year. It depends on the whole course of the year's work, on the reports of mastera and inspectors. on the general conduct of the aspirant during the previous school The school or college gives the certificates of promotion from class to class and the Leaving or Passing Out Certificate from the college to the University. It is a system which seems to give the can didate a far better chance than does the hazard of an annual teat. It takes into account not merely the ability of the boy or girl to answer questions, but covers the diligence and moral conduct of the child as well.

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many who are head and shoulders: over the others during the year are hopeless in exams because of stage fright. Nervousness has meant the failure of many a deserving candi- date. That is true of competitivo tests in the true sense of that term. It is still more true of examinations in which schoolboys and schoolgirls are the victims. A quiet talk with prospective candidates would do: more to bring to light real talent than all the examinations ever in- vented, and the reason is that a friendly talk does not terrify and examinations do. That method of testing school children is not quite 50 Impossible BA It Defenders of Examinations looks, for the year is long, and On the other hand we find many

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Accuracy in Answering

In examinations generally very little consideration seems

to be given to anything but the accuracy of the answering. It is, perhaps, difficult to have it otherwise on ac count of the huge number of candl

dates presenting themselves in the In the first place it may be very various centres the world over. But seriously questioned, whether boys again little things might be attend- and girls are, in general, such en- ed to without an undue increase of thusiastic workers and such con- labour. Here again the imperson- sistently enthusiastic workers be-ality of the teat is the obstacle. cause of examinations. It seems The personal element of contact almost a truism to assert that they with the examinees is absent. Some look upon them as an awful bore, candidates are extremely neat and as something which must be faced olderly, others are not. After all whether they like it or not, as is said and done the faculty or something which forms.a most dis- habit of neatness and order is as agreeable feature of school life. big an asset in the life of a child That is doubly true if the teata are-and of a man, for that matter- held at a time which necessitates as is its being able to spell longi

Definite study instead of play during the tudinarianism correctly.

| holidays, Is it not rather the marks should be set aside for neat-: nature of the average-and we may neas and the candidates should say healthy boy or girl not to tire know that beforehand. In mathema- themselves unduly until the last tical papers there may be a Porld lap? Then they certainly do be- of difference in the methods used come enthusiastic workers, if a by two contestants to arrive at thei feverish endeavour to master incorrect salution. Yet if both have one month what would normally all their problems correct both get require Bix can be called full marks. It is the well-ordered enthusiasm. Enthusiastic searchers mind that is going to make the effl- after knowledge. Ob na cient citizen of the future. It may Enthusiastic crammers of the mini-not be as well stocked with erudi- mum amount of matter requisite totion as the mind of some brilliant. get them on the pass Hist. How but alovenly student, but it will do long will the matter ao acquired more practical good. And yet these last? It will last just as long as factors are rarely given due credit; it is needed, perhaps not quite so in an examination. An examination; long as that. Examinations do not should be a test of the year's work make enthusiastic workers-for en-in all its phases not merely of the thusiasm postulates that the work accuracy of answera to questions. is loved-but they do encourage

On Leaving School eramming, and cramming is not Many of the pupils of the schools good. It is a hectic development and colleges of Hong Kong are go- of the memory, not of the mind. Ing in for their final test. With The result is not altogether the that examination their school life fault of the teacher, it is not al-ends and they pass from their together the fault of the child, it teachers' care to fend for them- is rather the outcome of the system selves. They may have done excep- coupled with human nature as it is. tionally well in their school course.

Age of Competition

They may have taken first place Again we are told that examina- time and time again in the public tions are necessary In this age of examinations. Are they thereby competition, in order to distribute made perfect citizens, really pre- the prizes with justice, There Ispared to face the battle of life? something of truth in 'that state- Examinations may show that mentally they are fit to hold their own against all comers. That is not enough. have got the moral training to How many of them

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