Differing views on the best kind of education for our children

I echo Wong Ka-yan's comments ('Our education system has to be competitive', November 6).

Students must learn to shoulder pressure in school. I have observed lessons in different schools. Many secondary school teachers prepared extensive PowerPoint slides and notes for students.

The slide presentations were all excellent and required minimum writing on students' part. Other teachers rewarded students with sweets when answers to yes/no questions were given. Teachers hesitated to discipline students. Tests were set at a level lower than they should have been for fear that students would score poorly and this might lower their self-esteem. True, a harmonious classroom was created, but learning was impaired.

We are training the pillars of the future society, one that we will grow old in, the same one our children will be raised in. What expectations should we be having for this society? As your correspondent pointed out, 'Keeping children cocooned and apart from the real world is pointless.'

Anson Yang, vice-principal, SKH Li Fook Hing Secondary School, Chai Wan

I think your correspondent Wong Ka-yan ('Our education system has to be competitive', November 6) and, indeed, many parents have misconceptions about competitiveness and education.