CO129-531-9 Hong Kong University- proposal to found faculty of Chinese studies 17-10-1930 - 10-6-1931 — Page 53

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OF HONG KONG.

Tel. No. 28056.

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My plea as regards the University's School of Chinese

Studies is that if Chinese Classics are properly taught on the

basis of a properly selected course, then it ought to be possible

for a boy or a girl who has in inclination in that direction, to

take Chinese Classics as one of the subjects for a University degree.

The students of our present Chinese School, can not pass the

Matriculation; they are learning practically nothing else but Chinese

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dore Classics, taught them by Han Lings whold Chimese is of the highest s Awarded

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under the old regime, but who appear to be unemployable except in

Hong Kong. These students, if any of them ever pass through the

four years' course, which appears very doubtful, will get a diploma.

What are they going to do on the strength of that diploma?

The

Hong Kong Education Department will not even have them as Chinese

teachers in their schools. The standard of English taught in the

School of Chinese Studies (it is supposed to be a joint course of

Chinese Classics and of English) is so low that the Professor of

English came to me two or three days ago and said that he was going

to make it quite clear in the Senate at its next meeting, that the

English which was being taught to these students, was of a grade