Q In which areas do Hong Kong students need to improve?
Education should not only equip someone with special and professional knowledge or skills, but also with a willingness to learn and think.
Unfortunately there are only two main categories of students nowadays under present educational concerns, namely good and poor performers.
Our exam yardstick is very conservative and superficial by considering only academic performance. Students' morality, aesthetic perceptions and civil awareness are all ignored. Students are not really educated or enlightened, although they can perform very well in certificate exams.
When we ask them about basic human and social values such as human rights, freedom, democracy and fraternity, they are often left speechless.
The underlying reason is that they don't think, and even if they try to start, they don't know how.