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be sufficiently broad to be directly useful to the student,
throughout the changing circumstances with which he will meet
during his practical training, in works or drawing office. Again,
if the boy is expected, as he undoubtedly will be, to qualify at
an early age for his first step on the ladder of responsibility,
it is necessary that his preliminary training should give him
some breadth of outlook, in addition to inaleating that accuracy
of thought, observation, and manual accomplishment required by his
particular trade. The imparting of this wider mental training is,
unfortunately, apt to imperil its own success, as there is the
ever present danger that the boy so equipped may feel that his
prospects would be better in the "black coated" professions. It is
in this connection that the influence of the employer should be
felt; his direct interest lies in attracting better brains to
industry; and to accomplish this he must show the individual that
competence and hard work will not be without reward. The intimation to the students, say in the third year of their course, (in 1935) .
of the existence of a scheme such as is outlined in paragraph 109
(Government Report) should be amply sufficient to prevent an undue
drift away from industry.
A study of local conditions showed that for every purpose a
knowledge of English is greatly prized as a financial asset. This
holds even in the shipyards, where preferment has, in the past,
been dependent on a man's knowledge of English as mɑɑh as on his
technical ability.
In view of the competition for places in the Anglo Chinese
schools, selection of pupils is made by examination. This has one
important advantage viz., that pupils on entrance are all more or
less at the same stage of cducation and soon form a homogeneous
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