Personality

You may say what I said was the same as the traditional approach of teaching according to aptitude (因材施教) by Confucius, and I was making a big fuss on a slightly silly but entirely benevolent statement of the Council.

Well, you are probably right in the first half, but, as to the latter consideration, it actually involves a deeper water.

You see, the call to achieve everyone being all-rounded (and, therefore, inevitably, the same) means putting an end to personality. Each and every individual would see the same, speak the same, and "think" the same - leading to the inevitable road of serfdom and dictatorship. (I consider the statement in our Council's booklet, therefore, a horrifying Freudian slip.)

To put it simply, in a world with freedom, we must accept everyone being different and each should have a reasonable opportunity to cultivate and develop what they are good at.

PS. I put the word "think" in quotation marks and deliberately downgraded its definition to any neuronal activity within the skull. By its very nature, all genuine thinking - in the conventional meaning - has the potential of coming up with something different.