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Have you ever wondered why a large number of schools in Hong Kong are run by churches? For instance, the building of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Archives, which housed St. Paul’s College formerly, was built over 170 years ago in the Tudor Revival Style. Do you know what memories can be found in this architectural building as one of the earliest Western education spaces in Hong Kong? Interestingly, in the beginning, the school only boasted one teacher and nine students in total. We can also trace the origin of the school’s motto "To love our neighbors as ourselves” to the time of World War II, when the headmaster even served as a major and fought alongside the students.
Queen's College has an even more dramatic history which is marked by episodes of wars, relocations and renaming from The Government Central School to Victoria College. Established by the Scottish missionary Rev. Dr. James Legge as the first central government school, the entire school building was destroyed during the war and later relocated to its current address in Causeway Bay as “Queen’s College”. Through the two ancient British cannons dating from the 19th century in the campus, we seem to be able to glimpse at the past and present of this Western educational architecture.
Click on the link below to enjoy this video produced by Jockey Club “How Memory Sticks” Arts Education Programme”: “Series on the Memory of Educational Space: Memory of Western Educational Spaces in Hong Kong” (in Cantonese):
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香港為何有那麼多教會學校？前身為聖保羅書院的聖公會檔案館，是香港早期的西式教育空間，建築屬於都鐸復興式風格，並且有170多年的歷史。大家知否這個建築物，懷有怎樣的記憶？原來，這間學校最初只有1名老師以及9名學生；戰爭時，校長曾經出任少校，與學生一起抗戰！校訓「愛人如己」便是在這樣的背景下誕生的！
皇仁書院的前世更為曲折，曾經是由傳教士理雅各創辦的首間官立學校、歷經戰亂與搬遷、校名由中央書院過渡至維多利亞書院。戰爭時，整座校舍都被炸毁了，再搬至現今座落於銅鑼灣的現址，名為：「皇仁書院」。校園內的2座19世紀鑄造的英國古炮，幽幽訴說着這座西式教育建築的前世今生。
即到以下連結細心欣賞「賽馬會『看得見的記憶』藝術教育計劃」製作的短片──「教育空間記憶系列：香港西式教育空間的記憶」：
更多詳情，可瀏覽「賽馬會『看得見的記憶』藝術教育計劃」：
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