106
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6TH APRIL, 1861.
In conclusion, while the Board of Education cannot rejoice in the Government Schools as being all which could be desired, it is some matter of satisfaction that they are more efficient than they formerly weru. It looks forward to a time when they will become not only a great benefit to this Colony, int exercise an important influence on the system of Education pursued in the schools of China itself.
On behalf of the Board,
Victoria, Hongkong, 13th February, 1801.
W. F. C. ROBINSON, Honorary Secretary.
RETURN OF THE NUMBER OF SCHOOLS.
NUMBER OF
PUBLIC OR TREE
SCHOLARS,
NAME OF THE PARISH, | SCHOOL, AND WHERE
AND IN WHAT COUNTY
OR DISTRICT.
SITUATED, AND WHETHER SUNDAY OR
WEEK-DAY,
NAME OF THE SCHOOLMASTER OR SCHOOLMISTEESS, AND SALARY.
Male.
Female.
Total.
Tai-ping-shan
West Point
Sheung-wan
Clung-wan
Webster's Bazaar
Bowrington
Worg-nei-chung
Tang-lung-chow
Show-ke-wan
Sai-wan
Shik-au
Tai-tam-tuk
Stanley
Heongkong
Aberdeen
Mahomedan Mosque
Tang-lung-chow
Girls Sch., Sheung-wan
West End
Chan-yun-kwong
salary £32 10
70
70
Li-king-chau
30 0
52
52
"
Ho-yuk-tsun
35 0
Wong-sz-ping
"
Cheung-ku-ying
**
Tsui-kwan-sik
33
Chan-tsam-fan
";
Leung-shik-hing
59
Tang-show-chun
29
Government Free Schools.
Wong-yun-ko
Chanhiu-lu
Yip-chong-kau
Chin-yau-tsau
11
Su-ping-un
17
Tam-tsok-pan
""
Yip-cheung-sin
"
Chow-ping-kwong
Leung-king-hai
Wong-tak-fong > Leung-tsz-shang
"
29
RBERRENNIUUNUMMUS
ก 97
97
35 0
0 109
109
25 0
31
33
25 } 0
67
72
25 0 0
31
31
32 10
0 103
25 0
0 45
20 0
21
30
0
32
17 10
11
25 Q
28
25 0
27 10
40
22 10
25 0
0
49
0
0
32
20 0 û
20
25 0
28
28
MODE OF INSTRUC
TION.
SuroRT-
ED BY
EXPENSE OF
EACH
SCHOOL.
A general Chinese Education with the New
Testameut.
Government.
£100
7 6
82 A
0
114 19
2
135
6 8
41
8
88 3 9
47 7 1 99 8 9 32 13
20 0 0
29 15 20
33 18 25 3
34 19
35
7 6
44 10 2
68 15.0
26 14 7 36 13
COON KO TO-✡*OON4 +2O2ONT
0
2
4
4
Show-ke-wan
* THE NEW SYSTEM REFERRED TO IN THE ABOVE REPORT,~PREPARED BY THE REVEREND DR. LEGGE.
To the Members of the
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
VICTORIA, 11th July, 1860.
GENTLEMEN,--The Inspector of the Government Schools having resigned his Situation, we shall probably be requested by His Excellency, the Governor, to recommend some other gentleman to fill the vacant office, and if a competent person shall not immediately be met with, a more careful supervision of the Schools will devolve upon ourselves. The present seems a favourable opportunity for me to solicit your attention to some thoughts concerning the management of the Schools, and the general promotion of education in this Colony under the auspices of the Government, which have been revolved by me for many years; and if you concur in the propriety and advisability of my views, I would beg that they may be laid before His Ex- cellency, with the favourable recommendation of the Board.
The appointment of a European Inspector was a great improvement on the system by which the Schools were previously conducted, and we owe much to Mr. Lobscheid for the increased efficiency of the old Schools under his management, and for the establishment of many new ones. Having been resident in the Colony (with the exception of temporary absences) since 1843, I have rejoiced to witness how attention to the important business of education has grown, in some roportionable de- gree, with its general growth and prosperity.
But grent results cannot be realized under the present system. There are about twenty Schools distributed over the island. The pupils are mostly children of the poor, whose attendance is irregular, and cannot be calculated upon for a series of years. The teachers are in general men of no particular qualifications for their work. The teachers of English are young men whose own knowledge of our language is only rudimentary. The Inspector does not teach himself, but his business is to see that the teachers do their duty, and to assist them by his counsel. We cannot expect that he will spend more than two or three hours in each School in the course of every month.
The plan which I would recommend instead of this is the following:-
First. That there be erected a building in Victoria, in which the Schools now maintained in Tae-ping-slan, the upper and central Bazaars, Webster's Crescent, and near the Mosque, shall be concentrated in different rooms.
Second. That in connection with this building there be provided a residence for a European Master, who shall form and conduct English Classes; and that only in the Schools concentrated there shall English be taught.
Third. That this European Master, aided by a Board of Education, constituted like the present, or modified as cir- cumstances may render desirable, exercise a Superintendence over the other Schools in Aberdeen and the villages over the Island.
This plan would retain all the advantages of the present system of inspection, and might be expected to produce real and definite results, which cannot now he looked for.
In the first place, the Government would have an officer, himself actively engaged in the work of education.
In the second place, the English education carried on under the Master's eye would be more efficient than it is now, and he would be able to collect into his own classes he pupils whose progress and interest in their studies gave promise of their making real attainments.
In the third place, many young Chinese, well-educated in Schools in China, and connected with Chinese firms and fami- lies in the Colony, would be found to enter his English classes.
In the fourth place, an impulse would be given to the Chinese education carried on in the concentrated Schools. The teachers under the immediate and daily observation of their superintendent might be expected to be diligent, and earnest to further the progress of their pupils. And an influence would go out from their Schools, which would tell upon those in the villages.
There would be the outlay for the building which this plan supposes, but the permanent expenditure for such a system would not be very much larger than that of the present. And fees should be charged from pupils attending the English classes, who did not enter from the Government Schools. My own opinion is that these would amount to no inconsiderable sum.
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