It is often claimed that the education style in Hong Kong focus too much on memorising, which limited the development of student's creativity and imagination. This recite style of education however do have its advantages compare to other education system in terms of the quality of its production - student.
Compare to students from other countries, Hong Kong student usually shows their ability in answering questions. Hong Kong student was trained to answer questions in a direct way, to fill in main points only. This is always a great advantage for Hong Kong people to do things effectively.
Secondly, student in Hong Kong started to learn both English and Chinese from 3 years-old. A good bilingual ability gives Hong Kong students stronger competitiveness with in the world, especially under the rapid growth of the chinese economy.
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回覆刪除Of course HK education has its own merits. And indeed the quality of HK student is quite high when comparing to other countries.
回覆刪除But i pointed out the flaws of the system on my blog as i think they are the things that restrict the development of the HK children, so we have to face and improve them as soon as possible in order to provide the best education.
I can see that HK education system is improving and i never deny the goods of the system.
Maybe i am a bit pessimistic so i always see things in a negative way.
But we should find out our shortcomings and correct them, so to make our education a better one for the sake of the future of HK, right? :)
Yes, I think i can agree with you very much, Curtis - I myself am quite critical of the system, simply, and most probably due to how much I've wasted my life in it.
回覆刪除But whatever, what does the system matter compared to what we students actually need? The individual person needs to seek his/er education and opportunity. This is what I believe at least. Marks and Degree qualifications are still just pieces of paper in the end.
I totally agree about HK students are good at both chinese and english. We really start learning english very earily, thus we(hk students) at least know the basic. Actually, I am very proud of having this arrangement in the system.
回覆刪除However, I think it's a very bad system for the students to go to the CHINESE secondary school.
回覆刪除It's because they really can't speak good English in their daily life and it's really hard for them to catch up the subject in universities which all subjects are taugth by English.
Agree with helen, don't like secondary school using chinese as the teaching medium.
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