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necessary not only to repeat the Chinese equivalent of an
English phrase, but to write it on the blackboard for the boys
to copy. This is necessarily a slow process, and as a conse-
quence but few pages can be explained in a week. If the Reading
were confined to the amount explained, it would soon be memori-
sed, and cease to be a Reading lesson at all. For this reason
my predecessor (Dr. Stewart) and I caused the boys to read
several pages beyond the matter explained, a practice which is
in harmony with the requirement of those Reading Books for each
standard in England.
13.
Geography. The objection of Mr. Grant 5.A.
Pembroke, Cambridge, was not so much to the questions set in
I/E as to those that were not set. Geography is divided into
various heads, Physical, Descriptive, Commercial, Mathematical,
Political and Historical. The great bulk of teaching is usually
on the first four, though the last two should not be ignored.
To have no questions whatever set on the first four heads nul-
lifies the test set. Question 2 can only be viewed es a jest;
A large proportion of Hongkong Police being British (mostly Scotch) and Chinese, therefore not hailing from India at all.
14.
Masters, in sore incomprehensible
manner, appear to be blamed because their scholars were ac- quainted with the different forms of Government in various European Countries, and with the tributaries (one, historic) of the important River Thames. They are also blared because the boys could not describe the meadow land, that lies on the banks of the Thames, as of most English Rivers. Pictures of "brick farm houses, wagons sic, and country lanes' may be useful for imparting General Intelligence but can hardly come under the head of even Descriptive Geography. In the compilation of this paragraph (p.5) care seems to have been taken to begin and end
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