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INFORMATION

FINE RODE HOVERNMENT INFORMATION

SERVICES BULLETIN

Tuesday, July 25, 1972

THE NAME OF THE GAME THINKING NOT MEMORISATION

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A continual expansion plan during the next few years will bring

the government's Educational Television (ETV) service to more than half

a million children and 20,000 teachers.

The Acting Deputy Director of Education (Professional), Mr. Colvyn.

Haye, said today that the service had been such a great success in its

first year of operation, that the number of viewers will be doubled to

over 200,000 this year.

This expansion will continue until 500,000 children and 20,000

teachers accept television as a matter of course in their education.

Mr. Hayo, speaking at a luncheon of the Hong Kong Association of

the Pharmaceutical Industry, said a "quiet revolution" was taking place

in Hong Kong's primary school classrooms where television was being used

to "vitalise education".

*Teachers and children are discovering that learning can be

fun and that thinking, not Señorisation, Is the name of the game."

Mr. Haye said that television san breathe "quality" into an

education system which has of necessity been concerned with "quantity".

/He