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intellectual darkness.
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The project is ambitious, but one which will claim the sympathy of all lovers of progress, whatever may be their nationality or their faith.
The school in Hongkong is fortunate in securing the service of Mr. Braidwood, (founder of the Craigengower Cricket Club) who has had a good deal of experience in the teaching of the youth of the Colony. He will be assisted by an English Assistant Master, four Anglo-Chinese teachers, and four Chinese teachers. The latter teach Chinese only. If therefore it is possible for a Chinese youth to secure at the same time both a good occidental and oriental education, he need not fear to fail because of the inefficiency of the teaching staff provided here. There are some who doubt whether this is possible. The acquirement of Chinese is such a drudgery and demands so much time that, were it done effectively the modern side must suffer. Of course the Chinese youth can learn "enough to get along with," and in Hongkong a little seems to go a long way, but this is equivalent to being uneducated in the estimation of advanced Chinese scholars. However, this difficulty will solve itself in time and it will be discovered what a student can and cannot accomplish. The main object of this "Chinese School Society" is to give a good English education, that the youth of China may free itself from the swaddling-bands of their own creation, and step into the freedom of modern intellectual life.
The school in Hongkong has caught on, and the report given by the Headmaster, though the school has been opened but a few weeks, will show that the Chinese are going to patronise it. He says: On the opening day, 116 pupils presented themselves, and when I took charge of the school on October 10, the number had risen to 155 and in November there were 194 pupils, or two more than the accommodation provided for. Additional seating for 32 scholars was at once provided. The school was then in the position to teach 230 boys and that is its capacity. The number actually in attendance is 234, and the Hon. Secretary assures me that he has received dozens of applications for admission. By utilising our interior space to the utmost, I think it is possible to provide for 30 or 40 additional pupils. You will see therefore, that the question of extension is one that will have to be considered in the near future.
Of course new brooms sweep clean. Still, there is no reason to think that the interest of the Chinese in this new opportunity that has been provided for them will be ephemeral. As they gradually begin to understand the advantages that are open to them, they will flock to the school in yet larger numbers.
The education in these schools is free. This will at first, perhaps, attract scholars from other educational institutions of the colony, but we must bear in mind the fact that each year the youths who are seeking an English education are rapidly increasing in number, and so is the number of those who are able and willing to pay for an education.
The establishment of this school has been bitterly opposed by Hung Ka-yu of Canton. He is the President of the college which Chang Chih-tung founded during his rule over the Two Kwangs. The famous Viceroy built this college at a great cost, and specially equipped it in order to encourage Chinese learning. Every facility is offered to Chinese youth to enter and drink deep from the wells of Chinese literature.
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921
intellectual darkness.
21.
The project is ambitious, but one which will claim the sympathy of all lovers of progress, whatever may be their nationality or their faith.
*The school in Hongkong is fortunate in securing the service of Mr. Braidwood, (founder of the Craigengower Cricket Club) who has had a good deal of experience in the teeching of the youth of the Colony. He will be assisted by en English Assistant Master, four Anglo-Chinese teachers, and four Chinese teachers. The latter teach Chinese only. If therefore it is possible for a Chinese youth to secure at the same time both a good occidental and oriental education, he need not fear to fail because of the inefficiency of the teaching staff provided here. There are some who doubt whe ther this is possible. The acquirement of Chinese is such a drudgery and demends so much time that, were it done effectively the modern side must suffer. of ecurse the Chinese youth cen learn "enough to get along with," and in Hongkong a little seems to go a long way, but this is equivalent to being uneducated in the estimation of advanced Chinese scholars. However, this difficulty will solve itself in time and it will be discovered what a student can and cannot accomplish. The main object of this "Chinese School Society" is to give a good English education, that the youth of China may free itself from the swaddling-bands of their own creation, and step into the freedom of modern intellectual life.
"The school in Hongkong has caught on, and the report given by the Headmaster, though the school has been opened but a few weeks, will show that the Chinese are going to patronise it. He says; On the opening day, 116 pupils presented themselves, and when I took charge of the school on October 10, the number had risen to 155 and in November there were 194 pupils, or two more than the accommodation provided for. Additional seating for 32 scholars was at once provided. The school was then in the position to teach 230 boys and that is its capacity. The number actually in attendance is 234, and the Hon. Secretary assures me that he has received dozens of applications for admission. By utilising our interior spece to the utmost, I think it is possible to provide for 30 or 40 additional pupils. You will see there- fore, that the question of extension is one that will have to be considered in the near future.
Of course new brooms sweep clean. Still, there is no reason to think that the interest of the Chinese in this new opportunity that has been provided for them will be ephemeral. As they gradually begin to understand the advantages that are open to them, they will flock to the school in yet lerger numbers.
"The education in these schools is free. This will at first, perhaps, attract scholars from other educational institutions of the colony, but we must bear in mind the fact that each year the youths who are seeking en English education are rapidly increasing in number, and so is the number of those who are able and willing to pay for an education.
"The establishment of this school has been bitterly Copposed by Hung Ka-yu of Canton. He is the President of the
college which Chang Chih-tung founded during his rule over the Two Kwangs. The famous Viceroy built this college at a great cost, and specially equipped it in order to encourage Chinese learning. Every facility is offered to Chinese youth to enter and drink deep from the wells of Chinese literature.
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