However, despite the title being "The person I respect the most", what is highly unusual is that it leaves no free choice of subject as pupils were actually asked to "choose" our Dear Leader, CY Leung, as the subject. Even without looking at Leung's biographical details, one will probably think of many other suitable role models to write admiring essays about. To me, such an assignment smacks of thought police, and has echoes of the Cultural Revolution in China, when school children were brainwashed by having to deify Mao Zedong, sing his praises and glorify his acts as achievements. I have seen comments on the internet questioning why it wasn't made explicit, and I suspect that the name wasn't written into the assignment to create plausible deniability of the intended subject.
According to Passion Times – journal of the radical political group Civic Passion, Tai Po Old Market Public School is the establishment in question, and the sad thing is that there are also reports that teachers in other establishments may also have been setting this assignment. Similarly in the named Tai Po school, students' were apparently asked to write an essay in English about their future profession or vocation; they were offered two "choices" – working for the police or for the ICAC. Again, such limitation of choice to law enforcement over other common or worthy professions – let's face it, most HK parents brainwash their own children to want to become medical doctors; mentions of the police in Hong Kong these days are often met with profanity – is curious and can only be explained by political motives.Let's just remind ourselves about the furore and the protests over national and moral education in 2012. Since the Umbrella revolution, the Communist Party has become more and more paranoid about liberalism in Hong Kong. There are pro-Beijing scholars and political leaders in the PRC who have called for more efforts to make Hong Kong youth more "patriotic". We have recently seen the launch of PLA-style cadets, and I'm confident we shall be seeing more, not fewer, instances of "education" and propagandisation targeted at our youth in the months and years to come.
In any event, inspired by the assignment, I have put pen to paper about the merits of Dear Leader. Please take the contents in the ironic context in which they were intended.
我最尊敬的人
我最尊敬的人係我的師兄梁振英。原因其實有太多：
首先，佢從我的母校拿到了碩士畢業已經唔簡單。政治舞台上一個無名小卒，2012年只憑住689人投票給佢，一鳴驚人。全香港都認識佢名，甚至五六歲的孩 子都知道689不只是簡單一個數字。佢宜家可以強權管治超過700萬人，為所欲為。佢導致數十萬人上街呼喚佢名;佢使全市售罄黃色雨傘，一把都買唔到。
甚至可以自己加自己已經豐厚的薪水幾開放心！邊個唔想？
另外，佢公司其他股東全部都衰衰晒，佢果然仲可以赚翻五千萬蚊，一毫子税都唔使比又唔使交代市民。
梁振英有此多非凡的成就，當然值得尊敬，值得崇拜！
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I will now recap in English:
The person I respect the most people is my "school brother" CY Leung. There are just too many reasons:
Firstly, it is no simple achievement to obtain a masters degree from my alma mater. Then, from being a nobody in the political arena, but by obtaining the support of just 689 people in 2012, he became an overnight sensation. Now the whole of Hong Kong knows his name, and even a five-year-old child knows that 689 is not an ordinary number. Now he can lord over more than 700 million people, doing whatever he wants. He brought hundreds of thousands of people onto the streets, calling out his name; yellow umbrella sales went through the roof because of him, now they are completely unavailable in shops in Hong Kong.
He even increased his own already lucrative salary. Pure joy! Wouldn't you like to be able to do that too?
In addition, all other shareholders of the company he once owned are left with zilch, he still managed to extract a cool 4 million pounds sterling (about HK$ fifty million), and doesn't have to pay a cent in tax and doesn't need to be publicly accountable for it.
Through his extraordinary achievements, CY Leung is certainly worthy of respect, worthy of admiration!