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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1988
"WHILE I PERSONALLY RESPECT THE IDEALS OF THE FOUNDING
1 DO UNIVERSITY,
NOT
CONSIDER
APPROPRIATE
MEMBERS то MINORITY
IT OF THE CHINESE SACRIFICE A UNIFIED EDUCATIONAL POLICY FOR THE BENEFIT OF A GROUP, HE SAID.
"
"WHEN
EDUCATIONAL
INSTITUTIONS
EXPENDITURE, THEY
SHOULD
PERHAPS
GIVE
SOME
CONSIDERATION
ARE FUNDED BY PUBLIC TO THE
GENERAL INTERESTS OF SOCIETY."
DISPUTING ARGUMENTS THAT HONG KONG
SHOULD
ADOPT THE 6
+ 4
MR
SYSTEM WHICH HAD PROVED SUCCESSFUL IN THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA,
WORKED THAT
WELL IN OTHER COUNTRIES LAU EMPHASISED THAT A SYSTEM MIGHT NOT BE THE ONE MOST SUITABLE FOR HONG KONG.
HONG KONG'S EDUCATION SYSTEM HAS INADEQUACIES
HONG KONG IS OPERATING
AN
EDUCATION INADEQUATE
SYSTEM,
THE
HON JAMES TIEN TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
SPEAKING IN THE
DEBATE
ON
THE EDUCATION
COMMISSION EDUCATION WENT ON FOR LIFE NO. 3, MR TIEN SAID THAT BY ITSELF MATTER OF QUALITY AND OF PERSONAL ENRICHMENT.
REPORT AS A
"IT IS NOT THE NUMBER OF YEARS, BUT WHAT
HE ADDED. CLASSROOM THAT COUNTS,
YOU ACHIEVE IN THE
HONG KONG WAS AN INTERNATIONAL CITY AND THOSE
BRAINS THEIR HAD A RIGHT TO BE ESTEEMED AS MUCH COMMERCIAL ENERGY.
FOR
WHO LIVED HERE AS FOR THEIR
CITING A PART
OF
REPORT THE
WHICH
J
STUDENTS WERE TOO SPECIALISED, AND AS A RESULT
FIELD AND LACK MATURITY, OWN THEIR WORLD BEYOND IMAGINATION', MR TIEN SAID AN EDUCATIONAL WHICH PRODUCED PEOPLE
WITHOUT IMAGINATION WAS A STRONG INDICTMENT.
HONG KONG LITTLE OF THE INITIATIVE SYSTEM
TERTIARY LEVEL AND INITIATIVE WITHOUT MATURITY, WITHOUT
THAT STATED
KNOW
AND
AT
HE SAID THE REASON WHY SO MANY WENT ABROAD FOR STUDY WAS THAT ONLY A FRACTION OF THEM OF GAINING HIGHER EDUCATION IN HONG KONG
OF
KONG'S HONG
YOUNG HAD ANY HOPE
PEOPLE
―
- SOMEWHERE BETWEEN
TWO AND
FOUR PER CENT.
/ON THE