477
nual Roll and No examined is a norm ab condition, vide par. Z. of my Annual Report
where the tables show that two thirds is a
a good mustic for examination, one third having always
milted away in the course of the,
year. (3) "I confine...
Head Master passes
"over in silence". Dr. Vitit there alludes "to
Less
successful".
"The teaching of the specifically Englide onlyecto
In par. 6.
of my Report I queak of the results in Dictation, Composition, Grammar & Phakespeare as creditable or he- according to the impression they pro-
I object sturfore to an in
cellent
duced on me.
sinuation that I felt ashamed to allude to, or incapable of criticising, the results of Englide subjects. Of these papers have been preserved I would lay them before any prejudiced authority on education, without -
the least hesitation.
us-
(4) With regard to English teaching by Chinese (p.967) I should only be too delighted and proud, for these Chinne Assistants to give lessons for a few minutes in the presence of His Excellency,
As
Jam
pure he would be
ourprised at then ability in imparting Exglist
instruction.
again ite true
(5) stop and track the ABC over. in the highest classes . This is
3 quite in a certain sense, but not in the literal
as
one. It applies Chicyly to pronunciation, flat. and dearp consonants are interchanged, appetite for ibblide & vice versâ ; these mistakes are hard to eradicate, being
lived in
nothing of
but
also made commonly by Chinese who have England for 5 or 6 years, Toray continental Europeans. Towel and Diphetong sounds are also a trouble to our boys as to all foreigners. I think therefore undue stress is laid on this point, and considerable misapprehension as to
by
this unquard -
facts is
likely
ed statement.
3
to be caused
(6) Anonymous libellous epigrams . When a
an
is caned or receives
2 boy in England imposition, to soothes his verced spirit by scribbling
on a wall" Powel maister be vule". In China, under the same
An
circumstances a boy avenger himself by
6 big
writing
of a banknote " Mr. X's
on the back of
grandmother is a __". The chit-books
in-
Da
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