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with

a cor

covering

letter of his

to Her

own,

Majesty's Principal Score tary of State for the Colonies.

I have how the honour to forward the statement suggested by His Excellery.

We consider the Central

School unconitable for Curpean boys

large mumber of Chiume

because

the

of boys, youths

and even men who

attend it. There

at are

present about

400 pupils in the School and when the

We w

Building is opened, the mumbers

will be langely increared. The classes

are nece

necessarily very large and individual attention is simply impossible.

2.

that

It goes without saying the method required in teaching Chinese pupils English must be entirely — different from that required in teaching English to a slap of English boys, The following extract from " Extil's Report

for

>

134

for 1887 will show the importance of teaching English boys, at the initial stages, separately from Chinese : It is noteworthy," he says" "that Eriglish reading, Dictation and Composition are.

the

eubject

in which the Central School would naturally be expected to be, and to my knowledge is, deficient, as compared with other School in the Colony, such as the Diocesan School, St. Joseph's College,

e

the Hong Kong Public School, to the vast majority of the borgs of the Betual School are Chinese boys who do not speak English nor

hear English spoken out of

School, and as the Central School gives

a valuable portion of its time to Chinese teaching, the natural

natural consequence

το

that the results obtained in the Central

School in speaking and underolacing English and in the above named three on

bjects

are somewhat below the resul to obtained in other Schools," A

young English boy placed in such a

school