CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3] — Page 396

would be able to collect into his own classes

the

& pupils

Studies

whose progress and interest in their gave promise of their making real

attainments.

: In the third place, many Young Chinese,

well educated in Schools in China, and-

Connected with Chinese

families

fermos

and

---

in the Colony, would be found

to enter his English classes.

In the

be given

6 fourth place. An

impulse would

to the Chinese Education carried on

in the concentrated Schools. The teachers

under the immediate and daily observation

of their superintendent might be expected to be diligent and earnest to further the progress of their pupils. And an inflruence would go out from

their schools which would

tell upon those in the villages.

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There would be the outlay for the building which this plan supposes, but the permanent_ Expenditure for such a system would not be

very.

much larger than that of the prevent:

And fees should be charged from pupils attending the English classes, who did not enter

from the Government Schools. My

opinion

is that these could amount to no-

inconsiderable sum.

This plan makes the teaching of English a

more prominent part of the education in the Government schools than it has hitherto been, But I beg to submit to you that it ought to be so . It ought to be so in this Colony, where the administration of Justice the English language,

is conducted in

and according

to Enation