Pui Ching Middle School (Hong Kong)
| Pui Ching Middle School 培正中學 | |
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20 Pui Ching Road , | |
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| School type | Aided Secondary, Co‑educational |
| Motto | 至善至正 |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Christian |
| Established | 1889 |
| School district | Kowloon City |
| Chairperson | HO Kin Chung 何建宗 |
| Principal | Nick Ho 何力高 |
| Teaching staff | 77 |
| Grades | Secondary 1–6 |
| Enrollment | 1100 |
| Classes | 36 |
| Language | Cantonese, English, Mandarin |
| Campus size | ~15,000 m² |
| Colour(s) | Red and Blue |
| Nobel laureates | 1 |
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| Traditional Chinese | 香港培正中學 | ||||||||
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Pui Ching Middle School (Chinese: 香港培正中學) is a Baptist secondary school in Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Founded in 1889, it currently has sister schools in Macau and Guangzhou.
Mission Statement[]
The school adopts "至善至正" as its motto. It aims to offer students a holistic education upon Christian principles and Confucianism "止於至善" from Great Learning (大學).
"Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the eyes of the LORD thy God." -- Deuteronomy 12:28
"Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he instruct sinners in the way." -- Psalm 25:8 King James Bible
History[]
The Hong Kong branch was established in 1933 in Ho Man Tin. Initially, only primary school education was offered; a junior high school division using Chinese as medium of instruction was established in 1938, a senior high division was established in 1940. The school was suspended during Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II. Students and staff went to Macau and mainland China. In 1945, the school moved back to a temporary site in Kowloon Tong and in 1946, the school moved back to Ho Man Tin. In 1950, the school was renamed from a Hong Kong branch of the Canton school to the present name. In 1952, a new extension on the land donated by Hong Kong Government was built and completed in September 1953. The premises are located at which was named after the school.
Notable alumni[]
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- Daniel Chee Tsui, ��琦, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, 1998.
- Shing-Tung Yau, 丘成桐, mathematician, awarded the Fields Medal in 1982. Calabi–Yau manifold was named after him. Awarded Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2010.
- Alfred Y. Cho, 卓以和, father of molecular beam epitaxy and quantum cascade lasers. former Vice President of Semiconductor Research at Bell Labs, Awarded US National Medal of Science in 1993 and US National Medal of Technology in 2007. Inducted into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2009.
- Yum-Tong Siu, 蕭蔭堂, mathematician, William Elwood Byerly Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University
- Shiu-Yuen Cheng, 鄭紹遠, former Dean of Science of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, now Chair Professor of Mathematics at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Sun Kwok, 郭新, founder of Interactive Wind Model in Planetary Nebula, Dean of Science of University of Hong Kong
- Chia-Wei Woo, 吳家瑋, founding President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- King-Fai Chung, 鍾景輝, first dean, the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts. BBS
- Paul Tsai-Pao Wong, 王载宝, founding director of Graduate Program in Counselling Psychology at Trinity Western University and president of the International Network on Personal Meaning
- Daniel Tse Chi-wai, 謝志偉, former President of Hong Kong Baptist University
- Ng Ching-fai, 吳清渾, former President of Hong Kong Baptist University
- John Hung, 洪