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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETLIE,

於男塾年

OTH MAT,

家增得

1000.

男得四之三女得四之一似此 塾男女童比較其數亦如疇昔

年百

家管轄各塾女童之數較諧前

三百名其間有或書或夜學習英文者約三百名但惜其教英文之法, 年去歲實是十澮其一但將各 天文地理格物致知之道與夫外那風俗幂代規模齊驅幷教如斯固可使在港產育說英語之民且不愿有如今日所 得女童三百四十三名去年則 所立不教門者或各聖會所傳楊天主耶穌二教者無非教人以克已愛人正心修身之道故各墊所關爲國爲民同 增至四百三十一名故畧計國 是一般珍貴但念使闔港興盛助國家治理如此藩地者則說華人語言者十居九五而歐洲人與各灣官憲求其解就 七十九名又查聖會義學前年 各修其身而後乃可但搬監院深信上交所陳各塾果增此與國與民蓋各書塾無論華人所遵奉儒教者或國家 三十五名去年頓減僅得一百 小子讀書摹字殊非成全教化之意以此教法不足使人爲民倘欲使國與展骓受其益必須使肄業蓄童各正其心 查國家義學前年得女童二百 八百四十名又有華人儒教書塾或有學童一千三百名而屬國家察理者共計學童約有三千四百六十名竊思徒教 恥以爲香港華人趨下流於不英不華交雜之民而使政刑各署有不勝繁擾之事上文所言華人儒教書塾學童一千

論及女學較諸兒童似更虧欠 本港各塾教條若何實爲最要按本港除各育嬰堂所有書塾内之小子外有未入國家察理之天主教書塾約有學童 人語言者未嘗二什得一故與其教習文究不如便多人解言英語在港教習英文之爲愈且也若教英文便可兼用 教書塾未八國家察理者學

人是所

1. As regards the education of the girls which

ven more neglected in Hongkong than the reation of boys the number of girls in Govern-

ht Schools fell from 235 in 1878 to 179 in 79, but as the number of girls in Grant-in-aid

ols increased at the same time from 343 in 78 to 431 in 1879, there has really been an cance made in 1879 amounting to 10 per cent.

er the total number of girls in schools under

vernment supervision in the previous year. proportion of girls to boys in those schools

Hetively is still about 1 to 4, which is a very satisfactory state of things.

3. The nature of the instruction afforded in a sehools of the Colony is a matter of the ut- int importance. Not conting the infants in schools of the Foundling Houses of the Co- av. there were about 840 children in Roman

holic Schools not subject to Government

qrvision, there were further about 1,300 chil- ren in independent native Confucian Schools, and fed) were in schools under Government super- Sion. Now whilst considering that inere teach- g of reading and writing and so forth is not heation, and does not in itself tend to produce tter citizens, but that the kind of instruction

hich would benefit the State and Public Society

ast havera tendeney to form a high moral chi- ater in the seholars, I still believe that every ue of those schools above mentioned contributes

- a certain degree such real benefit to Public

s wiety and to the State. For in all those schools,

all ther they be purely native and therefore

Vafncian, or purely Governnient Schools ind Zerefore secular, or Grant-in-aid Schools and as

ah Christian Schools, all the children in these -bols are being imbued with the principles of

ce and self-sacrifice, with the spirit of a pure

ad elevating system of morality. So far all those hools are on the whole of equal value to the Government and to the community. But what specially great importance to the prosperity

the Colony and to the administration of the vernment in a Colony like this, where over 95

recut. of the population speak Chinese only

! scarecly 5 per cent. of the European residents' officials speak or understand anything of ase, is an extensive promotion of a know- of English. The principal advantage of lish teaching in this Colony, compared with hese is this that the teaching is then com- with the enhanced educational influences

atural science and modern civilisation, and it funishes the means of greating here

1. Aarlo-Chinese community in place of that

rl form of social life, with pidgin English

-h. towards which the Chinese community in

gkong must otherwise continue to driff to at embarrassment of the Executive and departments of the Government. Out of 1.300 scholars in independent native schools lng night schools) about 300 are taught

in a very imperfect fashion. Of the 840 rein Roman Catholic Schools, not under Comment supervision, I assume 400 to receive

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