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50.
Each year something like 4,000 students emerge from all the communist
schools of the Colony having undergone perhaps ar average of eight years intensive
indoctrination on the evils of the society in which they will have to live. Of
this group only about 250 (on 1971 figures) from the Middle Schools will have a
Certificate of Education, which is the minimum paper qualification for any white-
collar job. A negligible number have any prospect whatever of receiving a higher
education.
51.
The best of them will probably return to the fold as teachers in the
schools which they have just left. Communist banks, trading organizations, film
and publishing circles look to these schools for new blood. All reports suggest,
however, that they find many of these graduates so poorly educated as to be unsuit-
able for all but the most menial tasks: they have often been a downright embarrass-
Most of the remainder will take whatever work they can get and will soon
find out that their school background does little to commend them to most employers (
labour in the Colony.
ment.
52.
Most communist schools run alumni associations which keep track of
graduates and attempt to keep them involved in one sort of communist activity or
another.
RELATIONS WITH NON-COMMUNIST SCHOOLS
53.
Little is know.. about relations between the closely knit communist
cducational community and other education sectors. It has been sometimes assumed
that communists would seek to penetrate non-communist educational establishments
and indeed there is evidence of a body charged with just that task (paragraph 11)
but evidence of its activities is lacking. In the field of primary and secondary
education, at least, the communists have been able to open their own new schools
without attempting the penetration and take-over of neutral schools, although,
on one occasion they did buy up an existing school in Shaukiwan.
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