CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8] — Page 37

by being printed in Italics.

مین

I turther enclose a printed.

copy of the Scheme hitherto in force,

in which all.

• proposed omissions are

marked in blue pencil

and all

proposed alterations are indicated in

red ink).

4.

of

The necessity for

ecessity for a revision

this scheme which was first intro-

duced in 1873, lice in the fact that

during

the ten

years

which have elapsed since the last revision of the scheme

approved of 18th of June 1883) the

was

school's

of

the

many respects

the

Colony

scope of

have

outgrown

the Scheme

in

of ten years ago, that consequently

year by year a gradually increasing

demand) aktor)

in the case

for the addition (as

of the Code in force in England) of a seventh standard

for all classes of schools, and that in Ke purely Chinese schools the addition

of

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+

as an

of arithmetic subject became also a

mand.

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ophoral class

a pressing de..

The aims I put before my-

scheme were (a) to

self in

drashing

a revision of the

embody in it the

alterations

already

made in the pro-

the pro-

appro-

visions of the Scheme with the

the

val

of

Secretary of State, (b) to add a seventh standard for all ~ schools and to introduce arithmetic in the Chinese schools, (c) to rectify various minor defects and to introduce

minor improveme sunday tails, (a) to re

values

classes

ments un de-

re adjust the monetary, of the standards in our hoo

Chinese schools in propor.

of

tir to the value of the education

English schools, (c)

provided in our

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encourage

the chidy.

the

chidy and enlarge

scope of the special subjects of a

secondary education allowed by the

existing

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