CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12] — Page 124

written character #5 ma Instead of camecting the given

sound or word with

the corresponding representation of the thing it dendes, the "Chinese school bay deficunt in imagination but rich in written forms connects

sound or word

connects any first with

the corresponding written character and by that means

the

only with Now as English thing itself. writing does not, like Chinese- dirictly call forth mind-pictures, there comes in once more, the necessity of teaching Chinese boys, who are to learn English, first of all by

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of object)

lessons to speak, and then only when they have learned to

be

speak more or less, they may also taught to read and write. (9). With

regard to the

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and have alience with

in abstract

mingoe

a. time -

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elaborative faculties of compariso

a

as shot discrimination, judgment and abstract reasoning the mind of the

of the Chinese school bey is equally deficient. " To distinguished between fairy story and sober history otherwise than that the one is amusing.

using and the other dry is quite impossible

him. Ste cannot, without special, education, discriminate between truth and

for

as di

falschood differences in morality though he will be quick enough to discern the difference in fact and usefuluess String in practical

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emummon sense,

he is incapable of abstract reasming. The Chinese School by absolutely requires to be shum that a thing is of practical

service and to be

taught