Lee Kwok-sung says plainly that it has nothing to do either with instilling a sense of ethnic identity or with cultural transmission: the Hong Kong government's reason for promoting mother-tongue instruction "is simply to allow children to study more effectively."
教育署首席主任李國生開宗明義指出，跟民族認同、文化傳承都無關係，香港政府推動母語教育，「只是為了讓學生更有效的學習。」