Problems of Hong Kong education system

This time I would like to talk about the education system in Hong Kong.As we all know, Hong Kong is one of the cities having the highest educational level in the world. In this small city, there are 3 universities which get in the first 50 universities ranking in the world. There are also 6 universities getting in the first 50 universities ranking in Asia. It seems that Hong Kong have a well education system in the world. However, as a Hong Kong student, I saw many problems in the Hong Kong education system.

The first problem is that the education system focus too much on the academic result and public examination. Since capacities of the universities is too small, there are only about 30% of students can get in universities. It is even harder to get in the top 3 universities in Hong Kong - The University of Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. Students and their parents put all their efforts on the public examination in order to get a better result to gain a place at University. Therefore, students only have little time to learn other things rather than the knowledge from text book such as social skills and sports. They get nothing but knowledge from text book. They do not know how to get contact with others. This gives a bad effect on their growth and is harmful to students' future and their career.

Focusing too much on the academic result also gives another problem. It makes the learning at primary and secondary school too boring. For the sake of getting a great result, students only need to remember the words from text book and learn the techniques for answering the examination papers. It makes the learning process boring. Students are not likely to be interested in learning and not learn other things by themselves. This lets them hard to learn working skills and accommodate the working environment and the society in the future. In addition, the learning process like this would let them lose critically thinking since they only try to familiarize the content of the text book.

Compared with Japan, the situation of education system is the same as Hong Kong. Although Japan have much more university places than Hong Kong, Japanese students need to put all their efforts on the public examination to get in the top universities in Japan. They even need to study at tutorial school for 5 to 6 hours after school. It is much similar as Hong Kong. This kind of living style make them hard to learn from schools and see the world from different views. It totally destorys students' lives.

I hope that Hong Kong and Japan Government can do more to improve their education systems to give a better quality of life to students. However, I believe that the most important is that parents and employers should change their minds. They should not only focus too much on academic result but also other skills and ability such as hobbies and sports. Only changing their minds can get aid with the problems of Hong Kong and Japan education system.