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PUPIL TEACHERS.

1. What do you understand by (a) The History of Education; (b) Elementary Schools? 2. In what particulars does the English system of education differ from the Chinese?

3. What is Discipline? Upon what does it chiefly depend ?

4. Give materials for a lesson (of an hour) in Geography, choosing your own subject, and specifying

whether the lesson is first, elementary or otherwise.

5. Write a short essay (not more than one page) upon-

either "Teaching embraces both culture and instruction.”

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"All education must be first moral, secondly intellectual."

"The teaching of words and things must go together hand in hand.”

6. What useful hints have you received, or observed, for yourself, to improve your lessons in (a) Read-

ing, and (b) Arithmetic?

7. What do you mean by "Explanation Lessons as given in Queen's College?

8. What are the principal means of gaining and holding the attention of a class?

9. What are your chief difficulties in teaching?

COMPOSITION, Class I.

(You are asked to write on one subject only.)

1. Write an account of the Sports and Pastimes (Chinese and non-Chinese) to be seen in Hongkong.

2. Describe the Peak Tramway.

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3. Write an Essay on the Benefits of Foreign Trade.

Class II.

The Smith that made a Hiss.

There was once upon a time a poor bungling man who called himself a smith, but who know nothing of his craft. He took a good piece of iron and set to work to make a horse-shoe. He made the iron red-hot, and he haminered and hammered away, all to no purpose. It would not turn into a shoe! So he changed his mind and said—“Oh, never mind! It will make a very good nail."

He put it into the fire again and made it red-hot. And again he hammered away, but it would not turn into a Well, never mind!" said he, "if it won't make a nail it will make a very good hiss!" So again put it into the fire, and when it was red-hot he plunged it into a vessel of water where it made a loud hiss! And this was all he had been able to do after several hours hard work!

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We must learn to work definitely, with a purpose, and without waste, either of power or material.

Class III

The Painter and his Picture.

One day when Sir James Thornhill was painting the inside of the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, he paused in his work and stepped back to the edge of the platform to look at what he had done. Intent upon his work, he had completely forgotten where he was, and in another moment would have fallen backwards from the platform and been dashed to pieces on the pavement below. But a friend who was with him, perceiving his danger, caught up a brush, and, filling it with colour, made a large blotch upon the picture. The artist sprang forward to protect his work, and his life was saved, though at the expense of his picture.

It is well for us that some of our plans are overthrown and spoiled. God often shows His wisdom and mercy in thwarting human designs.

Class IV.

The Dispute on the Shadow of the Ass.

A traveller once journeyed, riding on a hired ass, along a road exposed to the full heat of a burn- ing sun. Not finding so much as a bush under which to take shelter, the thought struck him that it would not be a bad plan to dismount and seat himself in the shadow of the ass. The owner of the donkey, who had accompanied him, objected to this arrangement, declaring that when he hired out the animal to him the shadow was not included in the bargain. A fierce dispute arose between the owner of the ass and its rider, and at last from words they came to blows which finally resulted in an action

at law.

It is a mistake to dispute about trifles. Quarrels about little things may lead to serious conse-

quences.