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Tuesday, November 27, 1973

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES IMPORTANT

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SAYS SIR MURRAY

The Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose, has stressed the importance

of extra curricular activities and active student participation in the

community life of Hong Kong in the course of educating young people.

In a speech delivered on the Governor's behalf by the Director

of Education, Mr. J. Canning, at the annual speech day of the King

George V School, Sir Hurray noted that it was an essential

feature for a successful school to develop a thriving corporate

existence.

"Young minds are not developed, character moulded and healthy

attitudes to life implanted through academic studies alone. A good school

has to offer a much wider range of experience and challenge then can be

provided for within the four walls of a classroom."

This, he said, could only be done through the establishment of a

comprehensive range of what are normally termed extra-curricular activities.

Through these, young people could learn what it was to co-operate

with others, assume responsibilities, discover potentialities for leadership

and what it meant to accept commitment to activities and interests which

went beyond the satisfaction of merely personal wishes.

The Governor noted that these extra-curricular activities were

largely responsible for the creation of the life of a school. "It is also

through them that much mutual understanding and respect can be established

between pupils, teachers, and parents," he added.

/Sir Murray

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