Mr. Lowcock is a real educator.
I remember one particular instance that made him stood out from any other Headmasters i could imagine.
I was the Head Prefect that year, and he told me of two candidates from other schools, and who were trying to apply to Lower 6 after the School Certificate exams, their original schools didn’t have form 6.
The two candidates, one had 7 A’s and the other 2 A’s plus a few credits. He chose to admit the latter, the reason being that the former would definitely had no problem in securing a place for himself in Lower 6 in another other schools, whereas the latter might have some difficulties in the so-called good school, but the latter definitely deserved a place in Lower 6 to prepare him for A Levels and university.
That really impressed me. Here was a man, who was interested in the education of young men, to bring out and enable young men’s potentials to bloom to their fullest, To him, the reputation of a school was built on that, not on some artificial number of Distinctions that a school could collect in the public exams.
He also taught me that a good teacher was not one who could teach you how to pass exams, but the one who made you feel passionate about the subject and thereby will continue to learn it by yourself – he taught me physics, and to this day, I am interested in physics and as a result of cosmology, of sub-atomic particles and so on, even though I am not a physicist. I continue to read of the development of physics by following it in popular scientific magazines.
He epitomized what a teacher and an educator should be.
Ronald Ng (Class 1962)
