203
to
OLL
Western system of Education amongst.
- the Chinese and inspire
the minds
of
the
literati and Official classes of China with a
sentiment
have never
of respect for England which they
yet felt. The Central School might then after division into two sections, an Elementary
English
and a Higher Grade School, well be
regarded
as a
preparatory
instituction and if
supplemented by a proper instituction for the training of native schoolmasters,
an
educational staff might be gradually created capable of permanently affecting for good the whole body of Chinese residents. It may
be -taken for granted that chinese as a rule will not learn English until they
to make something by it. Those who
way
are in constant contact with
see their
foreigners
}
understand its value and would pay accordingly.
Therefore it has
always
seemed to me that the
fees are unnecessarily low, and in fact that the Government gives away
that
no retum. I have com
for
which it gets |
compared the results
of
Anglo Chinese Schools connected with Missions;
here and elsewhere, with those of the Central.
School, as manifested in the case
of pupils
of either kind of school, and I do not think
it is
prejudice
which makes me
undoubtedly
give the proference to the former. There is generally speaking an absence of that flippancy and conceit which has painfully struck me in those pupils of the Central School with whom I have had anything to do; whilst there has been at the same time a much higher
estimate
011
their part of the true ends of
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.