CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10] — Page 130

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Memorandum on Education at Queen's College.

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1. The product we desire to see as the result

of an education at Queen's College is a young man equipped with a good knowledge of English and "Western learning", and with so much of the Chinese Written language as will enable him to write clearly and intelligently and to read plain prose, and to render Chinese into English and vice versa with some degree of ease and accuracy.

2. After consultation with the Bead and Assistant Masters (English and Chinese) we approve a scheme drawn up by Mr. Ralphs though we do not commit ourselves to an approval of all its details. Moreover our approval depends on the acceptance of certain

modifications and provisos, given in sections 4 and 5 below.

3. The scheme contemplates putting the 5

lowest divisions under 5 of the less experienced Chinese Masters with

a Normal Master in control of them. Five Fupil Teachers, now in sole charge of divisions of 50 - 70 scholars each, a disastrous arrangement,

will be relieved entirely of this duty, and will be attached to the

five divisions. They will give occasional lessons under supervision,

and spend the rest of their time either in assisting the divisional

Masters or in private study.

As five Fupil Teachers will thus have to be

withdrawn from the teaching staff, it is clear that their places must

be filled. This it is proposed to do by the creation of a Chinese side

to the school of five classes corresponding to the five classes of the Preparatory and Lower School i.e. to classes IV, V, VI, VII, VIII. Five

Vernacular Class Masters will be appointed.

The Normal Master will be in charge of the

five lowest divisions with their Masters and Pupil Teachers.

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