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Chapter 4

Standards in Primary Education

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4.1

The Government attaches great importance to standards in

primary education. It was stated in the 1978 White Paper on the

Development of Senior Secondary and Tertiary Education that the principal

function of schools was to help children to acquire:

(1)

a lively interest in the world around

them and an ability to think for

themselves and make decisions;

(ii)

a sense of moral and social values,

(iii)

including respect for others and their

views and beliefs;

competence in the basic skills of

(iv)

(v)

(vi)

literacy and numeracy;

an appreciation of the world's cultural

heritage, in particular that of their

own community;

a realisation of Hong Kong's place in

the world and its inter-dependence on

other parts of the world;

a basis of mathematical, scientific and

technical knowledge and skills to prepare

them for the fast-changing, highly

technological society in which they will

live and work;

(vii) a knowledge, through a school-based

guidance system, of the career opportunities

available to them.

Of these aims, (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) are particularly important at

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