I think it is necessary to avoid the description of the cultivation of political naivety as a measure of 'enslavement education.' The term overstates the cases ... In short, the legislative council has no mandate to represent Hong Kong people ... Commentators who did not face this issue head on became apologists for the colonial reigme, finding for it justification that Hong Kong people were not interested in politics. Events of the 1980s and 90s prove quite decidedly that such an argument is groundless. (p.6)

- David Faure, Colonialism and the Hong Kong Mentality (2003).