'Complaining is easy, but taking actions is not.'
If you care about our university,
our education,
our city, and
our future,
you should probably stay here and read.
In this super-long slideshow, I share two things:
my rough thoughts on education in Hong Kong and
how education-students are trained in my university.
I'm nobody, but a crazy student in CUHK who think I can change the world with education.
20. ‘Mass Education was the product
Industrial Revolution, to produce
standardized workforce for industrial
economy. It is a linear process. Sadly,
we can still see this model today.’
-Sir Ken Robinson
21. ‘School’s industrial, scaled-up, measurable structure
means that fear must be used to keep the masses in
line. There’s no other way to get hundreds or thousands
of kids to comply, to process that many bodies, en
masse, without simultaneous coordination.’
-Seth Godin
28. ‘Nowadays, what people call learning
is forced on you, and everyone is
forced to learn the same thing on the
same day at the same speed in class,
and everyone is different.’
-Isaac Asimov
44. ‘Education is the key to
unlock the golden door of
freedom.’
-George Washington Carver
45. It is all about theories, but not applications
46. ‘Knowing is not enough,
we must apply.
Willing is not enough,
we must do.’
-Bruce Lee
47. ‘An ounce of action
is worth a ton of theory.’
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. Education in Hong Kong can simply by summarized as
‘One-off Fate-Defining Examination’
49. ‘Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by
its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life
believing that it is stupid.’
-Albert Einstein
50. It uses students to as the chesses
for international competitions
51. ‘Parents, principals, the authorities treat students
to be the chesses to win the game of examinations.
If they lose, they are failures.
Even if they win in that game, they can’t escape
from being abandoned after schooling.’
-The author
52. ‘Students are the slaves of examinations while
examinations are the cards of politics.’
-The author
77. ‘Changing the educational problems is
not your duties. Yours is just to teach well
in schools, and get a good stable pay.’
-One of My Teachers
‘Who are we? Just teachers.
Don’t sacrifice your stability for
any uncertain risk.’
-One of My Peers
79. ‘If the problems should not be solved by
education students, then who should?’
‘Given university students are
(supposedly) the future of our city, if we
do not take the responsibility to solve
the big problems, who will?’
80. We care how well we teach more than
how well students grow
81. ‘Who are we actually serving?
Professors? Principals? Panels?
Parents? (4Ps) Marks? Salary?
Or…someone we forget,
students?’
82. We are rarely exposed to the latest
education development
83. ‘…adaptive learning?’
‘Google has an education apps?’
‘We can use Pinterest for teaching?
Sorry, I don’t have any account.’
‘Knewton is now free for everyone?
Wait…what, not who, is Knewton?’
85. ‘We know our education-professors always
attend different conferences, but these
chances just do not belong to us.’
‘We saw a lot of innovative schools from the
news, but we are never mentioned about
them.’
‘Even an individual student is interested in a paid,
but meaningful, education workshop, the faculty isn’t
willing to sponsor him.’
87. ‘We don’t feel any progression from
our old high-school teachers. The
examinations-training machines.’
‘We don’t have a very confidence-
boosting skill, technique
or pedagogy.’
89. ‘Who is John Dewey? Oh. He is one of the
greatest educators in our generation.’
‘Don’t ask me the purpose of education
all the time. I have no clue, but
preparing students for examinations.’
91. ‘Finland’s education is good. We know.
But we just know nothing about it.’
‘Taiwan has experimental schools? Are
there only laboratories?’
‘Why has Malala done for education?’
93. ‘We are not encouraged to discuss
about education with our counterparts
in different universities.’
‘No similarly passionate educators
could serve as our mentors to guide us
into a desired path in education.’
94. We always doubt our educational values
‘Who are we?
Just a speck of dust within the galaxy?
Woe is me,
if we're not careful turns into reality’
(Lost Stars)
-Adam Levine
95. ‘Even if we know the system is flawed, we still
have no choice but to fall into this trap, again.
Maybe those who care about education in
Hong Kong can only be the soulless cogs in a
flawed machine. ’
‘Despite my any aspirations in
education, I don’t know how to
make them real.’
97. “The whole educational and professional training
system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out
people who are too independent, and who think for
themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive,
and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the
institutions.”
-Noam Chomsky