CO129-553-12 Education- report of Mr Burney's visit 28-3-1935 - 7-8-1936 — Page 31

2, Richmond Terrace Whitehall, S.1

7th May, 1936.

my dear Burney,

I wonder whether you saw when you were in Hong

Kong the enclosed history? As it:18√probable that I

shell be out of England when the Hong Kong government's

views on your report are considered by the Committee I

am drawing your attention to the book because it seems

to me to indicate forcibly some of the defects that you

noted in the present school certificate couree in Hong

Kong. Something will obviously have to be done to

insist on your plead for simplification receiving

attention, whatever the Hong Kong Education Department

may say.

In conversation with Hendyside I gathered that

he could see no faults in the book or in the certifieate

course for which it is intended. When I referred to

the difficulty of the language und of much of the subject

matter ne said that no attempt had been made to simplify

either because school certificate candidates usually

stayed in the schools till the age of 19 or 20.

When

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