a mastery of which is pre-supposed in the school books used in this college, virtually sealed mysteries to these Chinese boys. An attempt has lately been made to introduce an Anglo-Chinese conversational phrase book - compiled by one of the masters. The idea deserves the highest praise, but vocabulary phrases are here put together in a haphazard sort of way, there being no attempt made to lead the scholars inductively, as Hamilton, Prendergast or even Ollendorff do, from particular instances to general rules, so as to enable the scholar to gather for himself the rules (of accidence or syntax) from concrete examples.
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(3) Again, the new world of speech and thought into which Chinese boys are plunged in this School is not sufficiently linked with that Chinese old-world life from which these boys emerge - passing from a three years' course of purely Chinese schooling into this English college.
(4) Owing to the total and incomprehensible absence of object-lessons, the Chinese boys are throughout the School taught to read and write English before they are taught to speak English, to learn words before they learn the things denoted by those words.
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