教会教育家那夏理与真光书院

Christian Educationist H. N. Noyes and True Light Seminary

美国长老会传教士那夏理女士于1872年在广州创办的真光书院,是广东乃至华南地区第一所女子教会学校。其在真光书院里引入了当时西方先进的教育理念、教学方法以及教育内容,为广东培养了一批受过近代新式教育的女性,广东第一批女医生、女教师和女护士即出自该校。尤其是真光的毕业生中做教师的较多,遍布广东的城乡,推动了女子教育的发展。

Neoteric female-education in China has begun with the school created by missionaries who came to China. Harriet Newell Noyes, the missionary of the Presbyterian Board of Mission in the United States, created True Light Seminary in 1872, four years after she came to China.She devoted the rest of her life to the cause of female education in Guangdong and contributed a lot to the development of female-education in Guangdong. She first introduced advanced educational system, educational standpoint and content of education of the west at that time into the school and cultivated a great number of women under the influence of modern education, including the first groups of women doctors, women teachers and women nurses.