Bureau must act to protect young minds

SCMP Letters to the Editor - (Feb 14, 2007)

I fully support Professor Kwok Sun, David Dudgeon, Dr William Mak and geologist Jason Ali in their call to urge the Education Bureau to issue stringent rules to prohibit teaching of psuedoscience such as Creationism or Intelligent Design in any schools.

The comments by some of the schoolteachers/headmasters in the story reflects a worrying trend, that religious freedom is being abused to corrupt the minds of our students, and that our officials in the Education Bureau are woefully negligent and oblivious of how proper science teaching will be eroded if these schools are unchecked.

The Education Bureau must act responsibly to protect our young minds from being misled.

VIRGINIA YUE, Tsuen Wan