Moral & National Education in HK

Moral and National Education in HK

I think Moral Education is more important than National Education.  In my opinion, Moral Education is the basic education for everyone and national affairs involve judgement.  In other words, moral education is the foundation of national education.  The latter is being considered to be supplementary.

Confucian Analects, which is the Chinese traditional knowledge for over 2000 years, before the birth of Jesus Christ, has its great influence on Chinese people.  In the Chinese history, Confucian analects had been spread to The Kings and people of China.  They followed the rules of ‘respect to parents, brotherhood, loyalty, trust’.  They are basically accepted by Chinese people as the excellent moral teachings.  Many follow these moral instructions wholeheartedly and fulfill their goals.

In Hong Kong, many schools carry out the moral education.  It includes conduct, intelligence, social life education, physical education, appreciate to beauty.  Upon investigation, I discover that many students like to have a moral and national education curriculum in parallel lines.  They said that they should know more about Chinese History, especially contemporary Chinese History.

However, some students like to focus more on Morality Education than National Education.  In their opinion, National Education is being encouraged, provided that teachers should teach the curriculum in the right way, not brainwashing the students, let the latter know the truth of the history.  They should lead the students to have a positive attitude to master the National Education.

China is rising in the world nowadays.  National Education includes brotherhood among countries worldwide, national unity, knowing more about our mother country, taxation, foreign policy, codes of practice, culture, marriage, economics, people’s sense of belonging to their own country ...etc.  National education increases our general knowledge which is considered to be useful to us in this modern world.

Moral and National Education is a definite trend for students in HK nowadays because of HK's handover to China.  Having good morality can lead our country to develop well, orderly and prosperously, which has much truth in History.

Mary