Regina Ip blames Hong Kong education system for industrial accidents, Mirror concert incident and making youngsters egocentric
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Hong Kong’s education system made young people more egocentric, according to the city’s top government adviser who blamed it for recent industrial accidents and an incident that left a dancer critically injured at a concert by boy band Mirror.
“We know we have gone through a lot of winding roads or even wrong paths in the past when we see so many young people are misled to break the law and oppose the country during the disturbances in 2019,” Ip said.
She said the senior secondary school curriculum, introduced in 2009, had produced a group of young people “who criticised in the absence of careful thinking”, which was “a pity”.
The previous education system had made people more “egocentric” she said, pointing to recent industrial accidents and the incident in which a giant screen fell and left a dancer critically injured at Cantopop boy band Mirror’s concert which was likely to have been caused by negligence.
