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Sunday, December 9, 1973
HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION
Challenge To Private Non-Profit-Making Schools
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Private non-profit-making schools in Hong Kong offer in some
respects the greatest challenge to any group of educators aiming at
providing high quality education at a price that the generality of
parents can afford, the Assistant Director of Education (Examinations),
Mr. D.B.M. Board said this afternoon.
He was speaking at the Dedication Ceremony of the Wing Kwong
College, Lung Cheung Road, Kowloon.
This secondary school, built with the aid of a Government
interest-free loan, is run by the Pentecostal Holiness Church.
Mr. Board said overseas visitors may find the local educational
Boone deplorable, even chaotic; but there are certain important merits
in our approach to the up-bringing of our children which should not be
overlooked.
"In particular, the existence of two large private sectors,
profit-making and non-profit-making, ensures that the wishes of the general
public, in terms of curriculum and language-medium of instruction, are
plain for all to see.
"This is