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Was secular education adopted in hostility to Denominational Schools ?
Year. 1866.---The Central School was no longer exclusively confined to the Chinese 1867.-Christian and secular education, says Mr. Stewart, must for the present be accepted as two distinct fields of operation in Hongkong, the Missionuries will have their choice, the Government its choice.
At the Central School H. E. Sir Richard MacDonnell says: he would be glad to see the Govern- ment School made sufficiently attractive to draw in the children of Portuguese and Hindoos. (Sir Richard MacDonnell in the precedent year at St. Saviour's College, after having highly praised the Roman Catholic Schools, said that when he first arrived he learned that European children were not received at the Central School. He took immediate steps to abrogate such a rule.) 1872.-Sir Ricbard MacDonnell is glad to see at the Central School some Japanese, Portuguese and boys
of other nationalities besides Chinese....
Sir Arthur Kennedy said that if A Meeting took place at the City Hall, 30 persons attended it.
He had no earthly sympathy with a school should be opened, it ought to be a secular one. sectarianism, Mr. Stewart supported secular education, Mr. Francis religious education. On being asked by Mr. Francis how he taught history Mr. Stewart answered he wanted only to defend himself.
The translation of English books into Chinese is to render the teaching in Chinese School sufficiently
undenominational to fairly come under the term secalar......
In the grant-in-aid system are prescribed four hours of continued secular education. 1875.-Morrison Scholarship to the Central School. Dr. Eitel and J. Lamont, Trustees, objected to the exclusion of Christian instruction from the course prescribed, it was finally agreed that in view of the present purely secular character of the School, the religious part of the course should be kept in abeyance until such time as the regulations admitted of its being made a part of the system.
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Correspondence in the China Mail about Morrison Scholarships. "The mousy given for Protestant teaching has been hurriedly applied to pagan teaching to avoid the imminent risk of a legal decision in favour of S. Paul's College.".
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The Editor of the Chinz Mail has no hope that undenominational instruction will lead to any result
such as the education of Catholic children......
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Correspondence in the China Mail, “how suicidal must be the educational policy, which in the vain hope of securing the approbation of the Romanists treats Christianity as if it were of less importance than Arithmetic or Geography."......
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Meeting of the Legistative Council, a Member opposos the grant towards rebuilding St. Joseph's Church, because he understood that the Priests of the Catholic religion here were opposed to the unsectariau education provided for children in the Colony.
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A correspondent in the Hongkong Times confutes the assertions made by the Member at the Legis lative Council. The grant proposed has nothing to do with the education question. Tho Priosts here do what the Roman Catholic Church prescribes and what overy secular and coro- mercial corporation claims to........
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1876.--Sir Arthur Kennedy at the Central School: The only thing he should be sorry to see there would
be that the School should be dosorted by Europeans,
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A correspondent in the Hongkong Times asks the reason why they are so troubled for a few hoys turning their back on that School, seeking elsewhere that which is denied there viz: a religious education.
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