Tuesday, November 27, 1973
EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES IMPORTANT
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SAYS SIR MURRAY
The Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose, has stressed the importance
of extra curricular activities and active student participation in the
community life of Hong Kong in the course of educating young people.
In a speech delivered on the Governor's behalf by the Director
of Education, Mr. J. Canning, at the annual speech day of the King
George V School, Sir Hurray noted that it was an essential
feature for a successful school to develop a thriving corporate
existence.
"Young minds are not developed, character moulded and healthy
attitudes to life implanted through academic studies alone. A good school
has to offer a much wider range of experience and challenge then can be
provided for within the four walls of a classroom."
This, he said, could only be done through the establishment of a
comprehensive range of what are normally termed extra-curricular activities.
Through these, young people could learn what it was to co-operate
with others, assume responsibilities, discover potentialities for leadership
and what it meant to accept commitment to activities and interests which
went beyond the satisfaction of merely personal wishes.
The Governor noted that these extra-curricular activities were
largely responsible for the creation of the life of a school. "It is also
through them that much mutual understanding and respect can be established
between pupils, teachers, and parents," he added.
/Sir Murray
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