In the early years, most children received simple education in the village. In 1900, when the Tsing Kun Study Hall (靜觀家塾) was built in Li Uk, it began to provide a more complete traditional curriculum for the children and the villagers in the neighborhood. Over time, the curriculum was changed to modern education programs. The Nam Chung Public School (南涌公立學校), which was built after the war, provided more admissions until it was demolished in the 1980s.
Children born during the war, that is, the current generation who are in their eighties and nineties, generally had to wait until after the age of ten to have a year or a few years of education. Most of the children who could go to school were boys, and even if girls had the chance to go to school, it was not for a long time. The post-war generation, born in the 1950s, attended a new modern style of school, and the social climate was different from that of the past. However, both generations of children were obliged to help their families with all sorts of household chores, including assisting with farm work, feeding chickens, driving cattle, harvesting hay, etc.
