Tang Chi-shing and his wife Wong Yi-wan are model lifelong learners.

Both graduates of a private post-secondary institution in Hong Kong, the Tangs are literature lovers. They met each other through Fung Gak, a literary publication of the 1970s. In 1993, they began their lifelong learning journey by signing up for the OUHK degree programme in Chinese Humanities and completed their studies in 1996. With the qualification, both had better career development. Chi-shing, who had been teaching in a private school, became a Graduate Master in a government-subsidized secondary school. Yi-wan, who originally worked at a social service organization, was able to enter the University of Hong Kong to study for a Certificate of Education and obtain a teaching qualification. She is now a secondary school teacher.

Both had continued their studies at the OUHK after their first degrees. Chi-shing got the Master of Education in 1999, and Yi-wan will be awarded the Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Chinese Humanities and the Master of Education in December 2003.
 
 

In 2002, they were admitted to the Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou to study for research degrees. To them, higher qualifications and career advancement are not the main reasons for study, but the search for a higher state of mind.

Before Chi-Shing began his PhD study, he was teaching Chinese communication and Putonghua at local tertiary institutions and earned a good income. However, he didn't want to spend his whole life working, as most Hong Kong people do, without having time to ponder on the meaning of life. To spare more time for his research, he reduced his workload by changing to part-time teaching, including being a tutor at the OUHK.

To Yi-wan, knowledge is wealth. It allows her to see things from different perspectives and develop a positive attitude that helps her cope with the pressures of daily life. She feels that studies have given her and her husband many more opportunities for sharing and discussion, and have enhanced their mutual understanding. Their son, aged 20, shares their passion for learning, and is now reading government and public administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
 
 
 
2002-2003 OUHK Annual report