Before the 1997 handover, Education Commission member Cheng Jieming once said that Hong Kong people's sense of unease about the return to Chinese rule was not due to concern over whether there were British elements in Hong Kong's education system, but over "what methods would be proposed for eliminating those elements."
回歸前，香港「教育統籌委員會」委員程介明曾經表示，香港人對回歸的不安，不在於香港教育中是否有英國因素，而在「人們提出去掉英國因素的方法是什麼」。