CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12] — Page 595

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a-mouth

2

$ 3

a week, which is to a Chinaman

twelve times what is charged proportionately Englishman for the education of his child in Music, French, Drawing, Latin, M. at to High Board School ) is sufficiently high a fees; Dr. Eitel pro- poses to raise this fee, saying the poover Chinese must be satisfied witte an elementary education. My view is that, as in Hongkong there are no en- dowed Schools for the encouragement of learning among the poorer classes, it behoves the Govern ments to provide liberally for the higher education, of the Chinese, without whom Houghing would be "valueless. On the question of the extension, of edu - cation, the Head Master has consistently for years with the encouragements of your Lordship's pred- ecessor made every arrangements for an advance, in 1888 Gazette p. 405 Dr. Eitel wc.- pressed a hope that the lipper Classes College should in time be affiliated to an English University, he now, Gazette 1892 p.968 recom. minds that Victoria College should confine itself to Elementary Education, and have becondary Education to private enterprise. Surely College

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can thrive if it's Educational policy is to

wery

be tossed about like a shuttlecock

two or three

years. It would be easy to destroy the fabric of

education that has risen under

my

hands on

if

To foundation laid by Dr. Stewart, but even the mistake were admitted in a year or two, the cause of education by the breaking of continuity would have suffered to severely that five years, under the most favourable circumstances would be the shortest period in which we could recover our present position. Thus allowing for five

years

years steady progress that should have bens made, we find that by unnecessary interference with the existing system, practically years

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the Coll career would have been lost for ever. Milo Dr. Vitit cries "Cut it down, why commberecto it the ground?" I would, with the gardiner interested in the growth of th tee, intreat your Lordship to "let it alone this year,

also, till I shall dig about it and dung it, and

it, and if it bear fruit well, and

if not then after that, thou shalt cut it down".

I have the honour to be

Your Lordship's

Most Obedient fervant,

potation Mijat Head Martin.

12 December 1892.