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Mr. Wilford
Sir L. Monson
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Miss Deas
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Primary Education in Hong Kong
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1th
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At the Heads of Departments meeting yesterday Mr.Royle enquired about this matter and I undertook to send forward an extract on the subject from the Governor's speech to the
Legislative Council on 1 October. This is attached.
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2. During the subsequent debate Mrs. Ellen Li spoke about "A crash programme for universal post-primary education". the course of a long speech she said that "when we look at these facets together in their right perspective, we can come to but one conclusion, that is children between 6 and 14
should all be in school and young people above 14 should all
be gainfully employed, be it in education or in work, leaving only a very few bad eggs to foul up our society." Mr. P.C.Woo
said that he found it very difficult to be persuaded that "the parents of the poorer section of our population are
reludant to send their children to school if given free primary and secondary education." Mr. Wilson T. S. Wang said - "On
primary education, I warmly support the policy as outlined by
Your Excellency to clear all obstacles which may bar any
parents from sending their children to primary school, and at
the same time to introduce a bill whereby action can be taken
against irresponsible parents. Very few parents will then have any valid reason for not sending their children to school when fees are waived and the need to make their children work for the augmentation of the family's income or for the care of its younger members, when these are eliminated by the provision of public assistance."
3. In reply, Mr. Canning, the Director of Education, said that he very much hoped "that a formal proposal to do away with the existing fee in the generality of government and aided primary schools will be placed before Members very soon". He also welcomed the arrangements proposed by the Governor for
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