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Ma Ho Fu
Ma Ho Fu
Retired primary school teacher
Sex: Female Birthyear: 1925 Age at Interview: 85 Education: Teachers' Training Occupation: Teacher Theme: Education Female students who had a perm hair style was not recommended by the sisters to study secondary s...When Ma Ho Fu studied in Hong Kong Tack Ching Girl’s Secondary School, once she and a female schoolmate met with Mother Ida. But Mother Ida did not like her schoolmate to wear curly hair. Therefore she did not recommend her to any school. Ma Ho Fu thought that Mother Ida was a traditional person.
Title Female students who had a perm hair style was not recommended by the sisters to study secondary school Date 25/03/2010 Subject Education Duration 1m26s Language Cantonese Material Type Audio Collection Oral History Archives Repository Hong Kong Memory Project Note to Copyright Copyright owned by Hong Kong Memory Project Accession No. TW-MHF-HLT-006 Miss Ho Chung Chung, Principal of True Light Primary School, was selective in choosing the right candidates. A member of school board had introduced a female teacher to Miss Ho, but Miss Ho rejected her because this lady wore curled hair which Miss Ho found it unfit with the school norms. Ma Ho Fu had always worn straight hair, and only once had her hair permed when she was advised by the principal of St Joan of Arc School (Primary Section).
Title Female teachers had a perm hair style according to the policy of different schools Date 25/03/2010 Subject Education Duration 1m35s Language Cantonese Material Type Audio Collection Oral History Archives Repository Hong Kong Memory Project Note to Copyright Copyright owned by Hong Kong Memory Project Accession No. TW-MHF-HLT-007 Maryland College rented a house on Bowen Road in the Mid-Levels as school campus. Maryland College was a private catholic school. It was not under the parish’s supervision. The campus in the house was very crowded. There were 2 independent classrooms on each floor, one for each grade. The teachers later pooled their money and bought the house. When the school stopped running, the teachers redeemed their shares back.
Title The teachers pooled their money and bought the marland College house-turn-campus Date 25/03/2010 Subject Education Duration 38s Language Cantonese Material Type Audio Collection Oral History Archives Repository Hong Kong Memory Project Note to Copyright Copyright owned by Hong Kong Memory Project Accession No. TW-MHF-HLT-011 Tack Ching Girl's Secondary School had 8 to 10 teachers. There was one teacher, who believed in Communism, always promoted communist ideology to the students. The students called it "pink injection”and they did not want to be too close with this teacher. This teacher left the school after one year.
Title The teachers did "The injection of Red" to the students in order to educate them with communism Date 25/03/2010 Subject Education Duration 25s Language Cantonese Material Type Audio Collection Oral History Archives Repository Hong Kong Memory Project Note to Copyright Copyright owned by Hong Kong Memory Project Accession No. TW-MHF-HLT-013 The male science teacher of Tack Ching Girl’s Secondary School was a fat man and spoke with accent. He sometimes wore white gown to do science experiments. He was always made fun of by the students; however, he had such a good temper that he did not punish the students.
Title The chemistry techer was picked by the students Date 25/03/2010 Subject Education Duration 45s Language Cantonese Material Type Audio Collection Oral History Archives Repository Hong Kong Memory Project Note to Copyright Copyright owned by Hong Kong Memory Project Accession No. TW-MHF-HLT-014 The music teacher of Tack Ching Girl’s Secondary School, Teacher Mui, once took the class to Butterfly Valley for a school trip, however, Ma Ho Fu left early to rush home to her godmother of baptism at home. She thought of a way to inform her teacher of her leaving the group: she left a memo on a tree trunk. Unfortunately, no one discovered that memo. Teacher Mui was scared and tried to look for the missing student.
Title It was a joke to leave a memo on the stem of a tree for leaving during the school trip Date 25/03/2010 Subject Education Duration 1m32s Language Cantonese Material Type Audio Collection Oral History Archives Repository Hong Kong Memory Project Note to Copyright Copyright owned by Hong Kong Memory Project Accession No. TW-MHF-HLT-016 When Ma Ho Fu taught in True Light Primary School of Hong Kong, she had helped a P2 student to overcome his peeing problem. Ma taught him to have breakfast and go to toilet before attending school.
Title Strong memory of handling the students urinary incontinence condition in classroom Date 25/03/2010 Subject Education Duration 2m28s Language Cantonese Material Type Audio Collection Oral History Archives Repository Hong Kong Memory Project Note to Copyright Copyright owned by Hong Kong Memory Project Accession No. TW-MHF-HLT-019 When Ma Ho Fu taught inTrue Light Primary School, one of the students from a poor family was reluctant to open the lunch box his parents prepared for him. Ma Ho Fu later encouraged this student to apply for admission into the St. Joan of Arc Secondary School where poor students were allowed to pay half of the school fee. Ma Ho Fu also assisted him to apply for a scholarship from the Wah Kiu Yat Po until his unemployed father found job again. In the meantime Ma Ho Fu also offered free tutorials to the student so that he could keep up his school performance. Ma Ho Fu maintained good relationship with this student. When he grew up, he had helped Ma Ho Fu a lot in return for her kindness.
Title Teach the poor students to build teacher-student relationship Date 25/03/2010 Subject Education Duration 4m15s Language Cantonese Material Type Audio Collection Oral History Archives Repository Hong Kong Memory Project Note to Copyright Copyright owned by Hong Kong Memory Project Accession No. TW-MHF-HLT-020 After teachers teaching higher grades understood the difficulties of teaching in lower grade they...At True Light Primary School, Ma Ho Fu had always been a teacher of junior classes from Primary 1 to Primary 3. She had once taught senior students for a brief period. It was because some teachers thought that the workload of teachers of senior grades was heavy. So one of the teachers suggested swapping classes between the two groups of teachers. For less than a month, teachers of junior classes taught senior students and vice versa, until the teacher who made this suggestion changed his mind. The principal told the teachers that experienced teachers were more suitable to teach junior students.
Title After teachers teaching higher grades understood the difficulties of teaching in lower grade they wised to switch back to the original arrangement Date 25/03/2010 Subject Education Duration 1m14s Language Cantonese Material Type Audio Collection Oral History Archives Repository Hong Kong Memory Project Note to Copyright Copyright owned by Hong Kong Memory Project Accession No. TW-MHF-HLT-021