WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1977
+NOW IT IS MUCH EASIER TO FIT APPLICANTS MORE SENSIBLY INTO THE VARIOUS TYPES OF PUBLIC HOUSING, WITHIN THE IR PERSONAL MEANS, HE SAID.
MR. LIGHTBODY PAID TRIBUTE TO THE WORK DONE BY MEMBERS OF THE HOUSING AUTHORITY.
HE POINTED OUT THAT THE POLICIES APPLIED BY THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT WERE POLICIES DEBATED AND SETTLED IN THE HOUSING AUTHORITY WHICH HAS 13 UNOFFICIAL AND EIGHT OFFICIAL MEMBERS.
TOPLEY OPENS $5.7 MILLION SECONDARY SCHOOL
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THE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION, MR. KENNETH TOPLEY THIS AFTERNOON OPENED THE $5.7 MILLION MADAM LAU KAM LUNG SECONDARY SCHOOL AT LAM TEI, -TUEN MUN.
THE SCHOOL, WHICH IS FULLY SUBSIDISED BY THE GOVERNMENT, IS OPERATED BY THE MIU FAT MONASTERY. AT PRESENT THE 24-CLASSROOM SCHOOL HAS 794 PUPILS.
+ITS COMPLETION, MR. TOPLEY SAID, IS GEARED TO THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY OF EXPANDING SECONDARY EDUCATION AND IT WILL PLAY AN IMPORTANT PART IN THE LOCAL EDUCATIONAL SCENE.+
THE DIRECTOR PRAISED THE SPONSORS FOR THEIR KEEN INTEREST IN EDUCATION.
MR. TOPLEY THEN MADE SOME COMMENTS ON TWO ELEMENTS WHICH WERE ESSENTIAL TO A GOOD EDUCATION.
+THEY ARE FORMATION OF CHARACTER AND TRAINING IN HABITS OF CLEAR THOUGHT AND CLEAR EXPRESSION OF THOUGHT IN THE PUPIL'S OWN LANGUAGE. I CALL THEM ELEMENTS BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT SUBJECTS IN THE USUAL SENSE OF THAT WORD. THEY ARE NOT LIMITED TO SET HOURS OR SET PLACES AND THEY PERVADE THE LIFE OF THE SCHOOL, HE SAID.
IT WAS PART OF THE FUNCTION OF A SCHOOL TO SET BEFORE ITS PUPILS IDEALS OF CHARACTER AND CONDUCT AND TO PROVIDE THROUGH
ITS OWN MANIFOLD ACTIVITIES MEANS OF REALISING THEIR ASPIRATIONS.
MR. TOPLEY SAID EVERY TEACHER HAD A CONTRIBUTION TO MAKE IN TRAINING PUPILS IN HABITS OF CLEAR THOUGHT AND CLEAR EXPRESSION OF THOUGHT IN THE PUPILS' OWN LANGUAGE, BOTH SPOKEN AND WRITTEN, BASED ON THE LOGICAL ARRANGEMENT OF IDEAS.
HE STRESSED THAT THE PUPIL'S USE OF THEIR FIRST LANGUAGE SHOULD, AS FAR AS POSSIBLE, BE THE CONCERN OF EVERY TEACHER, NO MATTER WHAT HIS SPECIALIST SUBJECT.+
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