EDUCATION DEPARTMENT REPORT.
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INTRODUCTION.
The Commissioners wish to acknowledge the assistanos
given to them in their consideration of these most difficult
problems of education by the Acting Director of Education, who
spared no effort to lay before the Commissioners evidence
which might facilitate their task.
They would also record
their appreciation of the aid given to them by the Vice-
Chancellor of the University, Sir William Hornell, Kt., both
in evidence and in the submission of memoranda.
Owing to the apparent lack of a settied Government.
policy in past years, the Commissioners have approached this
controversial subject with diffidence, but feel that if any
effective retrenchment is to be obtained they must necessarily
submit recommendations of an economic natura for re-
organization.
They consider that the lack of a settled policy
is in measure due to the Government permitting this important
Department to be administered by Acting Directora, who
possibly have felt their responsibility to be limited, owing
to the un'ertainty of their tenure of office.
3.
THE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION
The Commissioners hold strongly the view that the
Director of Education should be chosen pre-eminently for his
administrative ability and for his knowledge of Chinese, and
not because his length of service in the Department as Bead or
Assistant Master in the schools gives him the position
through seniority. The Director ought to be one having
considerable standing in the eyes of the public, the Councils,
and the Government. He should be above all schools, not of
It is not to be expected that a master who has spent
perhaps fifteen years in a common-room will, if promoted to
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