According to the EDB,
Moral, Civic and National Education is an essential element of whole-person education which aims at fostering students' positive values and attitudes through the school curriculum and the provision of diversified learning experiences. It also develops students' ability to analyse and judge issues relating to personal, family, social, national and global issues at different developmental stages, and enhances their willingness to make commitment and contribution.
My personal belief is that whereas this MNE may as well be a
rather political scheme of introducing the ruling government in a more pleasant
manner to students in Hong Kong, this is actually a "good thing".
The past decade of Hong Kong has been in a media-guided
turmoil - citizens had generally been led into a exercise of voicing out all
sorts of negative emotions. Children these days learn from the media that
anything they have the freedom of speech - they can voice out anything that is
unfair (or they so opined). What is wrong with this, one may ask?
The problem is that they don't quite understand the
situation before they even speak.
If somebody go on to ask the secondary and university
students of Hong Kong on whether they support democracy, chances are they are
going to get quite a majority support. What is missing in this question is
whether they KNOW what is democracy. You hear Raymond saying Aristotle in the
morning, Immanuel Kant in the nighttime in a day, and Confucius in another day.
How many of their books have these secondary and tertiary students read to form
their opinion of supporting democracy? My experience with secondary and
tertiary students has been extremely poorly informed in political ideologies -
not to mention the philosophical background of them.
If anything, this MNE will likely stimulate the learning of
students on this subject and our society will benefit from it. Knowledge is
power!
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