Professor Wang Gungwu, former vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong, has said that to expect every Hong Kong schoolchild to achieve a high level of proficiency in all these varieties of language is not practicable. "If five to ten percent can gain a good mastery of the written forms of both Chinese and English, we will be doing pretty well," he wrote in an article in the Ming Pao Monthly.
前香港大學校長王賡武教授就在明報月刊上表示，要每個香港學生都精通「兩文三語」並不可能。「百分之五到十的學生，中英文兼優就不錯了」，他說。