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qualifications of AMICE and the rest.
But before there can be hope of such a process
it will clearly be necessary to examine the elementary
basis; and here Hong Kong can provide a small exemplar
which might well be worth the careful study or hina's
educational advisers. The Junior Technical chool does
not aim at turning out mere engineering apprentices.
Under its exceptionally gifted headmaster it provides
a good general education, partly literary, but with
a pronounced ias towards extreme mathematical accuracy.
In the matter of education generally it is unlikely
that China can be greatly influenced by the practical
experience of Hong Kong in view of the sharp discrimination
between those schools for Chinese boys and girls in wheth
the medium of instruction is Anglish and the "vernacular"
schools with teaching in Chinese. In the former there
were some local assistants, but the backbone of the
system, both in the Government's "provided" schools
and in the independent schools (largely missionary)
which drew a Grant-in-Aid from the Government, was
provided by graduates from the United Kingdom with
special educational qualificatione; and these can
hardly be of interest in the present context, still
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