“[Students who study abroad] will get international higher education experiences and good connections, which will be of benefit to our own country one day. Millions of Japanese and Chinese students have left their home countries to pursue higher education abroad. Today Japan and China are developing thanks to the combined strengths of their local graduates and those educated in the foreign countries.”

“Pregnant women must be weighed, immunised and checked for diseases as soon as they know that they are pregnant. After giving birth, these records will form part of the medical history of mother and the child, which is very important to doctors so they can give the correct treatment when needed.”

“Some parents are busy with their job and claim that they are finding money for their children. In reality, the children want and need their parents’ time and attention. If children feel loved by their parents, they will also feel safe and be confident in themselves.”

“The purposes of our English language courses are to let the students have more opportunities to use their knowledge of English and also encourage them to speak the language without being worried of making mistakes or errors,”

“Most of the students in summer schools are from middle class families. Parents who support their children’s education want their kids to attend summer classes to improve their English, even if they don’t want to pay for a whole year at an international school”

“The EQ of children can be studied from their infancy. This is useful because, in the long term, we can see what kind of character traits exhibited in children equate to later success in life,”

“Children can’t get the benefits of visual art properly in this way. The aim of teaching visual art is to give children an outlet away from studying more academic subjects and to let them express themselves – not to put extra pressure on them,”

“Preschools provide the children not only with knowledge and creative thinking skills but also positive social skills. This is important because children need to be able to socialise with their peers and teachers when they start primary school,”

“I used to often exhibit violent behaviour and treated my own family very harshly during the first six years of my marriage. But later I realised how disgusting and damaging this can be and for the past 15 years I have been much more careful and never violent to my family,”

“We don’t have a full enrolment and I’m quite sure this is because many people don’t know about us. If this is the case, it is a great loss for [other blind] children,”

“Everyone had to go to the government schools when I was a kid. But these days more than ever children need to be proficient in English so I’d like to send him to an international school as well as to a government school,”