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A Message for CY Leung

# 2012-06-28 17:57:00, ulaca
Not from me, but from Karl Popper's seminal work The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume II: The High Tide of Prophecy: Hegel, Marx, and the Aftermath. 'While it is fairly clear that the politician should limit himself to fighting against evils, instead of fighting for "positive" or "higher" values, such as happiness, etc., the teacher in principle is in a different position. Although he should not impose his scale of "higher" values upon his pupils he certainly should try to stimulate his interest in these values. Thus there is something like a romantic or aesthetic element in education, such as should not enter politics. But though this is true in principle, it is hardly applicable to our educational system. For it presupposes a relationship of friendship between teacher and pupil, a relation which each party must be free to end. The very number of pupils makes all this impossible in our schools (and indeed the choice of schools is severely restricted). Accordingly, attempts to impo...