The private Millennium Secondary School in Napa launched a string of events called “Loving the Country and Loving Macau Week” yesterday to demonstrate how the school has added the concept of patriotism to its education system, said its director, Fok Chi Chiu, in a speech at the event’s opening ceremony.
Fok pointed out that the school is hosting a series of activities aligned with the “Loving the Country and Loving Macau” theme, including Chinese calligraphy, traditional clothing and traditional Chinese painting workshops, as well as a play about local workers in the 20th century and lessons about patriotism.
According to Fok, the school has been advocating the values of Chinese culture in order for its students to take pride in their nation’s history and culture. Fok also said that compared to other schools which place STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) as their schools’ primary education focus, the Millennium Secondary School considers its teaching principle as CAP, which he defined as developing students’ creativity, arts and patriotism.
Besides holding activities on the school premises, Fok told reporters as part of the weeklong programme students would also visit the Handover Gifts Museum of Macau and the “Loving the Country, Loving Macau Education Base for Young People” to learn about patriotism and national security.
According to Fok, the CAP education policy does not only focus on patriotism, but it also develops the “creativity, critical thinking, civic literacy, cooperative ability, self-development and information literacy of the students”, and he described the six categories as the “new six arts”.
Fok underlined that the purpose of the CAP approach is to cultivate different talents for civil society.
School Director Fok Chi Chiu (centre) teaches students Chinese traditional painting yesterday morning at a Millennium Secondary School workshop.
Photo: William Chan
