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MEMORANDUM with reference to the action taken within

the Education Department in respect of :-

(1)

(2)

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Chinese Syllabus in "English" schools.

Vernacular Middle School.

The study of Kwok Yu.

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(1).

In December 1930 the Director of Education invited

six Chinese gentlemen under the chairmanship of the Senior

Inspector of Vernacular Schools to examine the existing

Chinese syllabus in "English" schools with a view to the

revision thereof.

too heavy.

The Committee found that the existing syllabus was

A new syllabus was drawn up affecting each of the

eight years from the beginning of the study of English to the

Matriculation stage.

Classes in "English" schools are numbered 8 to 1,

the latter being the last year of school life. In classes

6,5 and 4 Mencius is read and in Class 3 selections from the

first part of the Analects.

Thus in the school syllabus generally only a portion

instead of the whole of the Four Books is taken. Chinese

Geography has been omitted, the syllabus of Chinese History

has been reduced and the aim of the whole of the revised course

is to give students a more practical knowledge of the written language so that ability to read and write Chinese becomes the

standard for the Matriculation.

The revised syllabus came into force on January 1st

1932, and that for the final year has been accepted by the

University of Hong Kong for the (ordinary) Matriculation

examination, in which an essay from the first volume of the

Confucian Analects is alternative to an essay on a general

subject.

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