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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1978
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT HELPS YOUNG PEOPLE
DEVELOP SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS
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SCHOOLS IN HONG KONG HAVE RESPONDED WARMLY TO RECENT CAMPAIGNS INVOLVING COMMUNITY SERVICE AND THIS ENCOURAGES THE HOPE THAT WHEN THE STUDENTS GROW UP THEY WILL BE MUCH MORE SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS, MR. HO NGA-MING, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION (PROFESSIONAL) SAID TODAY.
SPEAKING AT THE SPEECH DAY OF RAIMONDI COLLEGE, HE CITED AS EXAMPLES THE PART STUDENTS PLAYED IN THE KEEP HONG KONG CLEAN, KEEP OUR BEACHES CLEAN, FIGHT VIOLENT CRIME AND KEEP HONG KONG DRUG FREE CAMPAIGNS.
+THE GREAT VALUE OF THESE COMMUNITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES. BESIDES THEIR IMPORTANCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE YOUNG, IS THAT THEY MAKE OUR ADOLESCENTS MORE AWARE OF THE IR COMMUNITY AND ITS PROBLEMS, + MR. HO SAID.
THROUGH THESE CAMPAIGNS, HE ADDED, THE GOVERNMENT INCULCATED IN CITIZENS A GREATER SENSE OF BELONGING TO THE COMMUNITY AND A WILL INGNESS TO BECOME INVOLVED IN ITS PROBLEMS.
MR. HO ALSO SPOKE ON TWO GENERAL PRINCIPLES WHICH HE CONSIDERED WERE FUNDAMENTAL TO SECONDARY EDUCATION.
THE FIRST WAS THAT A SECONDARY SCHOOL MUST REALISE ITS FIRST DUTY WAS TO THE PUPILS AS INDIVIDUALS, AND HELP THEM TO SATISFY THE IR NEEDS, TO FIND OUT AND DEVELOP THEIR ABILITIES.
FURTHER, THE SCHOOL SHOULD REDUCE THE QUANTITY OF CRAL TEACHING AND ENCOURAGE THE PUPILS TO LEARN THROUGH DOING AND THE EXERCISE OF THEIR OWN INITIATIVE, MR. HO SAID.
THE SECOND IMPORTANT PRINCIPLE TO BEAR IN MIND WAS THAT EDUCATION IS A CONTINUOUS PROCESS, HE SAID, ADDING THAT SCHOOLS MUST KEEP IN CLOSE TOUCH WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD SO THAT PUPILS WOULD GRADUATE FROM SCHOOL WITH A GENUINE INTEREST IN AND AWARENESS OF WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND THEM.
MR. HO SAID ONE OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS SECOND PRINCIPLE WAS WHAT WAS OFTEN TERMED +EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP. +
+ IT IS THE DUTY OF THE SCHOOL TO TRAIN GOOD CITIZENS WHO SHOULD BE NOT ONLY WELL INFORMED BUT ALSO ACCURATELY INFORMED AS REGARDS CURRENT AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS, WHO SHOULD TAKE PRIDE IN BELONGING TO THE COMMUNITY CF WHICH THEY ARE MEMBERS, AND WHO, ABOVE ALL, SHOULD HAVE A KEE. SENSE OF CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY, + E. 2.
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