(a)
views of parents, students, teachers, educators, school manage- ments and the organizations
concerned. Getting any kind of a consensus on any basis short of the best of everything is very difficult
But
Again, the Department can vary
curricula, broaden the base of
education, etc., ete, in Government schools and tries to do so.
it cannot enforce its ideas on
other schools. Since, for example, parents and students want a 'grammar school' education, they
stay away from Government schools
which try to provide something else and go to the non-Government schoolg
which pander to them and blame
the Government for it.
A.. Speak's
3. Some of his criticisms (e.g. about the examination for entry into secondary schools and the gap between the primary school leaving age and the minimum age of employment) would undoubtedly be accepted as valid by the educational authorities in Hong Kong; are matters to which they have been and are giving attention at the present times
these
4. As is so often the case with
Mr Sprahi educationalists, a number of hie suggested solutions to Hong Kong's education problems are counsels of perfection ignoring the administrative problems involved and, more important still, the majority views of the
community itself on the type of educational
system that it wants. He suggests, for example, that "the proper course of action would be to make all schools charge an economic fee, and to utilise public funds to subsidise,
wholly or in part, individual children rather
than the schools themselves". It is indeed
open to argument whether this would be the proper course, but Mr. Speak must know that when such a policy was propounded in Hong Kong it was strongly opposed by public opinion and not pursued. The policy is to keep fees
Mr. Speak mention's the
and
-fated policy of trying to make the pomiary courfe run from 7-14 years of age ine read of
6-12
Songs that it was introduced "against the advice of many educators"; it entrats coned equally well be sand that it was introduced with the advice of many educators. He say also that most of the recommendations of
North / Sampoor
report remain unimplemented of the
unimplemented parts
Largely are on the impacts
to
Those, which educators
A and teachers have Aricted; those parts which attempted to show how m
meremy
comed the sowed were
strenuously officred.
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