Learning

CHARITY

Mentors teach pupils skills to love learning

18 Jan 2013

Form Six pupil Fanny Cheung Wan-lam hated learning English from her kindergarten days.

Secret to writing well lies in learning to think and feel

24 Dec 2012

Why can't Hong Kong students write well in English? I've been asked this question so many times that I've long given up trying to come up with an answer and have learnt instead to look at the...

Between The Lines: Language Acquisition

25 Nov 2012

Once in a while, I meet someone who turns my long-held beliefs on their head. Dr Stephen Krashen is one of these people.

The science of knowledge helps parents teach children

25 Nov 2012

It has been a privilege to facilitate the learning of exceptional young people in my teaching career. I have taught students who have achieved perfect scores for AP (advance placement) and...

Passion for learning can sustain our children into old age

23 Nov 2012

In reasonably affluent societies, life expectancy is now increasing at around half an hour per day. This is based on a reasonable extrapolation of trends around medical research linked to...

Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Super ministries may not be the right answer for mainland China

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

George Chen

A house is not a home until it becomes affordable

When his homework just doesn't add up

My son is in Year 6 and often gets confused with his maths homework. I don't know how to help him. I was never good at maths at school and my son is not confident either. The methods he is taught...

How to toughen children up

Six-year-old Markus Tsui knows the consequences when he throws a tantrum, or is rude to others: he will have to sit in a corner, opposite a wall pinned with a list of all his recent infractions....

Battle for ethnic minority children

When American author Robert Fulghum wrote, "All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten", he was not far off the mark. The positive benefits of early education are well documented.

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Stop boring our children at school

When the great Canadian short story writer Alice Munro was asked what makes her happy, she gave this simple reply: "It's being interested." By this definition, many of our students, bored silly in...

Logic gap

On a recent trip overseas, I was hiking up to a glacial lake with my wife when I asked her how to say the word 'tarn' in Cantonese.

Private tuition has its place, but only after careful consideration

A reader recently told me about her neighbour's daughter, who is in grade six at an international school.