That's a really good discussion... My personal experience from a so call "famous girl school", very familiar stories, familiar feelings. familiar experiences...the kind of values the conveyed from the school education and teachers are very "elite" values..
From my past education experience with these "elite" schools, I will never have my kids go to girl or boy school starting from primary schools. Secondary schools may consider some schools with more liberal values...definitely not the school I came from...
The elite values are part of the results of British colonialism and Christian values... without critical reflections to appreciate other culture and to appreciate diversities
Someday I was awakened of my "vanity" due to new experiences over these "stupid and vanity" values, then you realized what an "education" you have been going through!! Then you realized what is a good education and what kind of education you can avoid for your kids to avoid possible future "disaster" or "mental health problems".
Personal experience may bring some bias, still is part of the reality...
What she writes does not appear to serve the objective or anyhow logically reach the conclusion that "寫這篇文章，是希望香港人不要盲目貪慕名牌。所謂名校的教育理念，你作為家長是否認同？更重要的，是你希望學校教曉你的子女什麼？", even though such an objective/conclusion can never be wrong.
There is no contradiction between a competitive style of schooling and the values and perspective that the write considers important. Her school remains to have been a positive influence on her, having made her fight and struggle and excel. Didn't she get tough in the process? And the schooling did not deprive her of all the other opportunities to develop the values and perspective that she has now as a news reporter.
We can't argue over values. Just as the writer can despise classmates who cared only about girlie things, not few people in society would despise the unprofessional (if not disgraceful) industry of news reporting in Hong Kong (can't call it journalism indeed) whose workers care only about deadlines than facts or social justice. (Actually the quality of that article looks quite a piece of self evidence.) The game of value imposition never ends.
Despite her poor Chinese, the author did express the mentality of people who graduated from elite schools. With the implementation of mother-tongue language and allowing only about 100 EMI schools some years ago, together with most traditional elite schools changing to DSS, I find that parent's wish to "push" their kids to these schools become even stronger. Most are proud of their kids being accepted into one of those. I find that they will consider it as part of their belongings, along with their LV, Benz, and showing it around. These do affect the kids' value. Under these circumstances, what kind of person the kids will be?
I cannot agree with you more! Right attitude and clear mind!
These days, I find that many people, esp. those parents who cannot secure a place in their favoured schools, tend to 妖魔化 some elite schools and overgeneralise their personal opinion to all DSS schools. If that is really the case, I feel pity on them and sincerely hope that their biased mind will not adversely affect their kids.
原帖由 puzzledmama 於 10-12-7 15:12 發表
I cannot agree with you more! Right attitude and clear mind!
These days, I find that many people, esp. those parents who cannot secure a place in their favoured schools, tend to 妖魔化 some elite scho ...
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