HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
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· 2nd October 1969.
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(e) The educational authorities may well thoroughly revise school curricula for the purpose of close co-ordination, elimination of non-essentials and adoption of most practical pursuits. Thus youth will have the necessary training and skill for different jobs. Then, too, moral character must be cultivated. Voluntary social centres connected with youth guidance must see to it that cultivation of moral uplift is essential in steering youngsters to proceed on the right direction.
(f) Youth are deficient in social training in relation with the community. Enrolled to secondary or technical schools, they are occupied with their lessons and are aloof from society. When they face the world in job hunting, they are at a loss on what to do. How to remedy the situation falls on the lot of the educational authorities.
(g) Social ailments in different levels of the community are having our attention. Abundant in vitality and energy, youth are prone to have a superficial understanding of life and fall easy prey to temptation. It behooves government organs con- cerned to take common efforts to eliminate social ailments and dark spots by ameliorating social conditions. Grown- ups should set an example and guide youth away from their aberration.
(h) When Government proclaim Ordinances and orders, they are to be strictly enforced by the law courts. Such government action to be supplemented by education and guidance would render young men and women aware of crime and punishment. They will be warned of the danger and foster their better nature to lead a life of respectability. For those youth who unwittingly fall on the wayside they must be pulled back to the right course. It would be futile to prescribe reform and to compel obedience.
From the foregoing observations a complete picture of youth and their conditions may be envisaged and also the major problems con- fronting society. These problems concerning education, home affairs, social environment, capital-labour, marriage, relations between friends, books and periodical reading, and amusements-all have effect on youth and require adjustments and solutions. They have much to do with government, schools, religious bodies, social welfare centres, Kai Fong Welfare Associations and other setups connected with social welfare. They should work in concert to attain common ends.
MR P. C. Woo:-Sir, in a complex community as Hong Kong with its over-whelming developments since the Second World War one cannot dispute that the political, social and economical activities of Hong Kong
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