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public to make use of what is offered. But such a system, despite its advan- tage, is surely the poorer if it lacks the contribution that voluntary effort alone can give.
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unlimited means; they have no more money than taxation and private payment can reasonably be expected (Left) Plan of the ground to contribute. It would be a serious fallacy to assume that an unrestrict- ed birth-rate can always be absor- bed and provided for in the economy of his community without serious and permanent detriment to the quality of our social standards. This is a matter to which we should give serious attention. If population trends continue as at present we shall be faced with the dilemma of having to choose between satisfac- tory educational standards for part or diluted standards for the whole. Both would be dangerous and both would be unsatisfactory.
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"Alternatively, parents can plan their families as their economic cir- cumstances shall advise and their religious scruples allow. Only in that way are we likely to maintain of our and improve the quality schools, and at the same time as we press forward towards the goal of education for all.
influx of refugees from China, but mainly to an abnormally high birth- rate coupled with a declining rate of infant mortality. However much we may rejoice in the last of these "This building is a pattern of what factors--and it must be a matter of we would like to see for all the great satisfaction-we would be foo- Colony's children who are of primary lish to ignore the implication of such school age. Not just because it now a rapid rise in child population. possesses such excellent accommoda- Many of these children will be born tion, with all the facilities that into homes which cannot provide modern training requires, but also fully for the cost of their education, because it does not rely on these "Here, in Hongkong, we all - Gov-
and if they are to go to school at things alone. Its greatest value ernment and the voluntary organisa- all they will do so only with assis- springs from the spiritual foundation tions have more than enough to tance from Government or voluntary upon which its teaching is based. keep us occupied, and. as far as
sources. To attempt this load we That is something far more impor- education is concerned, the burden shall need to concert our energies tant, and this new building, lovely as which we shall jointly have to bear and resources to the full, and so it it is, would be meaningless without
will be more imperative than ever that we should all work together in the closest harmony and with the greatest efficiency.
in the future looks like being a Her- culean loan. It is estimated that the number of children reaching school age was 34,828 last year. By 1961 it is likely to be 68,000-an increase of nearly 100 per cent. on the 1953 figure. This is due in part to the voluntary
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Heep Yunn School was actually formed as such in 1937, but its roots go back very many years before that "But neither Government nor the time. Its origin lies in two other schools have access to schools-Fairlea and Victoria Home
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