CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4] — Page 402

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but it is not easily eradicated, as it is of the commonest occurrence in writing of the more

ignorant Quiere, The passage from thee King could only be fairly rendereds into English by two boys,

because the rest knew nothing of the context, without which it is

ancirkelligible.

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The Rexaminers praise the discipline, but intimate that the masters in the Lower and Preparatory Classes do not teach, nor the boy barn anything. If such laxity and disho= nesty were prevalent, à want of dis- cipline would speedily manifest itself, whereas it stood the crucial test of butcher and classer of boys being left - alone with strangers,

not be ventured upon in England.

The Rxaminers praise Reading,

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rs, which could

Colloquial, Composition and Gramansar

in Classes I and IIA, but condemn these subjects utterly in the Third

Class

Class and Lower School, assignnig, as

is reason, the inability of Chinese to teach English. Is it conceivable, if pre vious training were really as worthless

represented, that boys in the higher

clawes could do so creditub.

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creditably? 400 The importance of a pestosti.

make of Chinese ability to teach En= that I will bring

great,

glish is so evidence from the Examiners our sta tistics to rebut their condemnation of native teachers. Its

& mansion is

special made of Mr Jameson's Plase, IIA, I will take this as a standard of comparison; the other Classes mentioned being clusively taught by chinese . The figure refer to the number of boys who ob= tained more than 60 marks for these subjects

Reading

Conversations

Composition Grammar

IA 17A 17 IFA 23 boys

12 IIB 12 boys

12 13 13

10 II A

10

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