"Juveniles are like the rising sun, on whom our hope is placed." This is one of the most familiar aphorisms of the former Chairman of China, Mao. Nevertheless, it turns out to be a provoking sarcasm nowadays whenever we read newspapers - teenage crimes have reached a severely mounting state in Hong Kong. How are we going to suit the remedy to the case?.
First of all, it is imperative that we discover the grounds of the circumstance. Shoplifting, robberies, gang fighting are the common juvenile crimes whereas homicides as well as rapes are the serious ones. Dreadful as is a society of concealed upcoming crises and outrageous as will be the end of Hong Kong still, barely has the government taken minute consideration for an effective solution - the resultant deterioration is inevitable. .
Nonetheless, it is unproblematic to integrate the crimes and to draw a conclusion that what present teenagers lack are the proper values of live, a foundation of dignity, certainty in moral judgment and a sense of responsibility. As a result, compulsory moral education ought to be materialized in the entire education network, which is to indicate that students from kindergartens to universities must receive a full-scale ethical curriculum. .
Education should not take place only in schools, but also in our families, to which we can willingly fling the windows of our hearts open. As a Chinese proverb points out, "Education through action is more important than that through words." A father out of his own skull cannot convince his son of abstaining from alcohol. .
Moreover, students are more preoccupied with the knowledge from mass media than that from schools. It is yet partly due to the influence of the mass media that youngsters developed distorted beliefs, goals as well as attitudes towards life. For instance, vulgar jokes, violence, eroticism and pursuit of vengeance are widespread through indecent movies, serials and even advertisements.
