Small Class Teaching

In Hong Kong, small class teaching has been a popular topic for a few years; people think that small class teaching can improve the quality of teaching. Government try hard to carry out this new concept, government wants to change the maximum number of students in a secondary school class from 40 to 36; but is it work?

Small class teaching is free, the parents don’t need to pay for it, and It may also make students improve. If students study in a smaller class, they can be more concentrate; because the teachers can supervise them more easily. Teachers can take care of the results of students, beside, the efficiency of learning and teaching will be improved. Small class teaching can reduce the pressures of teachers, and the works of teachers. It can increase the communications between teachers and students, students have more opportunities to participate in class activities. Students have chances to express their ideas and opinions; it may help to improve students’ results of study.

Every issue can be see from different perspectives, there are advantages for small class teaching; but there are also some disadvantages. Small class teaching costs a lot, and there are some failure examples of small class teaching. In a few states of America, people need to pay more taxes for small class teaching; but unfortunately it doesn’t make a big improvement, like in California. It may cause a financial burden of government; the government may reduce the expenditure of other category, such as welfare.

A survey of education in England point out that a successful teaching mode should be co-operate with attention of parents, good attitude of learning of students and suitable teaching method of teachers. In Hong Kong, teachers don’t have any courses that train them to be small class teachers, so that they may not be affective on teaching in small class. Then the expenditure of small class teaching will be wasted.

What did I learn today?

Today, in the computer lesson, I learnt touch typing; I thought it was difficult, because I couldn't look at the keyboard when I was typing. Although it was difficult, I would practise and try my best to do it for my exam marks. It could also make my typing faster, and this was what I've dreamed of for a long time.

I don't learn those inventor qualities in my school, society and family; they just ask me to do well in exam and study harder. I think the society is not trying to make us to be scientists or inventors, they want us to be money factory; whatever we do must be related to the economy of Hong Kong. The government wants us to make Hong Kong more famous and richer, they always think of profit. I watched a TV program that have interviewed a jewellery designer, the jewellery agreed that the government wanted to invest the government's money to Hong Kong's tourism or something else. Government don't want to invest money in science or jewel business. I think that's why we don't learn those inventor qualities in Hong Kong.

What are five basic qualities that a good inventor might have?

I think the five basic qualities that a good inventor might have is creative, efforts, observing, interested in inventing and also have a person who appreciate him.

A good inventor might be creative because a inventor need to create invention. One of the synonyms of invent is create; that's mean when you invent something, you create something, so a inventor must be creative.

Also, a good inventor require efforts; for example, Thomas Edison who invented light bulb, he tried more that 2,000 times for different material. So, if a inventor cannot persis in trying, what he will get is only failure.

Then observing, a good inventor need to observe every experiment result carefully, if not, he may fail to invent better things and lose the chance to learn new knowledge. Beside, the inventor always observe in daily life of ideas to invent new things.

And interested in inventing, if he don't interested in inventing, he won't be hard working and keep on trying. Interests always motivate people to do things and not to quit; also he has passion of inventing.

At last, a good inventor must have a person who appreciate him; a inventor needs money to produce his products, so a rich man can help him to do this. Furthermore, everyone needs somebody who have common interest with themselves.

Which revolution does Hong Kong need?
I think Hong Kong don't need any revolution, because Hong Kong is not strong enough to be independent. Hong Kong don't have perfect policies, and Hong Kong don't have any power to defeat China. China have a mighty army, but we don't have any army in Hong Kong. Although Hong Kong's economy is well-developed, it's still not stable. Hong Kong people used to be ruled by China, they can't accept a big change of the society. I think the main reason is about Hong Kong government, they made many advertisements hypnotized citizens that all of us are chinese; and China is our country. In these years, people's sensibility of belonging to China have increased. So that, I think we don't need and we can't have revolution in Hong Kong.