Letters

Flawed comparison

I refer to the letter 'Spoiled students' (November 16), which takes a puzzling stance on education cuts.

The correspondent is agreeable to cuts in university funding because he thinks it is all right to have no subsidies in education. 'In our day, our parents had to pay in full for our education,' he said. How ridiculous. Remember that the economy was not knowledge-based and most people could be hired even though they had only a primary education. It is understandable that the government did not subsidise education.

The situation has changed. The government can no longer afford to neglect education, and must invest in it.

DAISY WONG, Sheung Shui

Right denied