Yesterday, while I was teaching a student Liberal Studies on the "ultimate request" of a female teacher at DGS last year, it asked, "Do you think the ultimate request should be done, justify your answer." As we should know, that teacher was asking for universal suffrage, which according to the Basic Law is one of the rights of HKSAR residents. What astonished was that, the answer could either be, yes and immediately or yes but gradually. Put thing otherwise, if you put "No" on your answer sheet, no matter what you have written, you are getting 0 mark.
I could not help but wonder, what makes writing No an absolute false answer. Could it be the case that one does not believe in the democratic system? Couldn't one, through redefining the concept on universal in articulating a view that one has the right to vote IFF they are mentally fit for voting? As I have been repeatedly suggesting, when one believes liberal studies is a way to be enlightened other than traditional means, one has been deceived by the HKEA. Liberal Studies "IS" like all the subjects in the public exam, in spite of using a sugarcoated cover, it still lacks the dialectical and critical spirit that academies request. I do sympathy local students because they have a choice and the choice must be the opinion of the HKEA.
*By using the same logic when liberal Studies questions if article 23 should be legislated, I believe the only answer is Yes immediately or gradually; however, I hope it is not question begging, but, how many liberal studies teacher is going to teach their students without the hypocrisy?
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