The “brainwashing” tag and the almost sinister overtone that has been attached to national education show just how badly Hong Kong needs a healthy dose of it.
This is particularly so for our young who know so little about China’s past and present, about its unspeakable sufferings and heartbreaking humiliations over the last 150 years, about how it manages to arrive at where it is today, and the price and sacrifices that the people and the country have paid along the road to national success.