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It has been put to the Committee that the School,
under Sister Leung, was a model of liberal and advanced
methods of teaching. However, we have not been able to find
much evidence of this. Routine visits by the Education
Department's Advisory Inspectorate staff since 1973 had not indicated any unusual feature in the way lessons were conducted. Moreover, both Sister Leung and those teachers who later opposed the new Principal, Miss Hilda Kwan, informed
that there was nothing particularly new in their teaching
methods.
discipline and we understand that, in the senior classes at least, considerable attention was given to examinations. However, we were also told that there were instances of prescribed syllabi being only partially covered.
12.
There was indeed a rather heavy emphasis on
Like Sister Leung, the teachers who shared her views were relatively inexperienced and there were indications that they were approaching the realisation of their ideas through
experimentation. Determined to inculcate a sense of social consciousness, social justice and a spirit of inquiry, including the questioning of authority, amongst the students even in the most junior class, they unfortunately did not pay adequate attention to the need to have such attitudes developed side by side with the necessary intellectual framework based on
knowledge and understanding.
13.
It seemed to us that, during the early years of the
School, Sister Leung had a very close working relationship
with most of the teachers and their enthusiasm and dedication
had generated a very tight group spirit which was also passed on to the student population. Given such circumstances, it was not surprising that the teachers, by and large, had a greater influence on the way the School was operated than
in the case of many other schools. Choice of new.teachers, for example, was significantly influenced by some of the existing
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