1842年,《南京条约》签定后,西方传教士首先进入了作为五口通商的福州、厦门两地。他们在建立教堂从事布道的同时,即着手设立学校。教会办学首先是以学校集合异教男女幼童,教以基督教义,冀其将来成为信徒或布道徒;其次,籍教会学校传授西方文化与科学知识,培养西方国家在中国的代理人。教会初期在福建开设的学校类似学塾,属于小学程度。如美归正会1845年在厦门寮仔后办义塾;1853年,JustusDoolittle(汉名卢公明)在福州创办一所男子寄宿学校,即后来的格致书院。教 In 1842, after the signing of the “Treaty of Nanjing,” Western missionaries first entered Fuzhou and Xiamen, which are the five ports of commerce. While setting up their churches to do sermons, they set about establishing schools. In the first place, the school runs schools to gather pagan boys and girls, teach Christianity, and hopefully become believers or evangelists in the future. Second, Churches teach Western culture and science to educate Western agents in China. In the early days of the church, a school in Fukien was similar to a private supplementary school, belonging to the elementary school level. Such as the United States will be back in 1845 in Xiamen after the Aberdeen private supplementary school; in 1853, JustusDoolittle (Han Ming Lu Gongming) founded a man boarding school in Fuzhou, that is, after the generous college. teach