A reflection on the Adream Foundation 2026 Public Forum
Hong Kong, M+ Museum, 11 May 2026.
That afternoon, we sat in the audience and listened as our friends from the Adream Foundation traced the road they have walked for eighteen years across China — from one Dream Centre to many, reaching all 31 provincial regions and supporting more than 3.1 million students and teachers.
We left with something heavy on our minds. On one side, the dizzying progress of our era — AI, algorithms, technological dividends arriving faster every year. On the other, the corners we have not yet truly lit — in China, there are still children for whom the chance to read and learn remains out of reach. Progress has never been evenly distributed. That, in the end, is why philanthropy exists.
What we believe — they have built
For Peak II Foundation, the most weighted moment of the forum was seeing the very ideas we stand for taking real, living shape in Adream’s work.
We believe that change travels through human relationships. When one person is equipped with skills, confidence, and opportunity, they become a force that lifts everyone around them. We call this the multiplier effect. Adream has carried this conviction further than almost any organisation we know:
A Dream Centre equips one teacher,
one teacher lights up an entire classroom,
one classroom reshapes a rural community.
This is what we mean by investing in people who help people — and an organisation in China has been doing exactly that, across mountains and rivers, for eighteen years.
In the rush of AI, they chose to slow down — on purpose
What moved us most was their posture toward AI.
While much of the world chases novelty and rushes to “embrace AI,” Adream stood up and articulated three ethical principles to guide their work:
One — Safe and controllable; human-centred above all.
Two — AI assists, but never replaces; the essence of education stays human.
Three — Pragmatic and inclusive; never chasing technology for its own sake.
Three plain sentences — but in this moment of history, a rare clarity. They do not deny what AI can do. They simply draw a clean, unmistakable line: let technology take the repetitive; let the heart of education remain with people.
Locking algorithms out is not the answer. Worshipping them is not the answer either. The grown-up posture, the one we hope to see more of in our sector, is to let technology do what technology does best — so that teachers can give back what only they can give.
“Compassionate” and “Pursuing Sincerity” — redefining what education is for
Last year, Adream refreshed their educational philosophy. When we heard it, we almost wanted to stand up and applaud.
“Compassionate” — to have love — is not a soft, sentimental phrase. Love is a capacity to give.
Their goal is to help every child cultivate three relationships:
- With the self — self-acceptance, and a healthy inner life;
- With others — seeing other people, learning to collaborate;
- With the world — perceiving the world around them, and meeting it with gratitude.
When a child can listen as well as they speak, when they can be glad for themselves and equally glad for someone else, when they can sit with their own thoughts — they carry, into any current the world may throw at them, the strength to keep growing as a human being.
And “Pursuing Sincerity” — to seek truth — answers the scarcest skill of our age. This era does not lack information. What it lacks is the ability to discern what is true. Adream wants to teach children three things:
- To find what is essential inside an avalanche of information;
- To hold on to independent thinking when many voices clamour at once;
- To stand before any tool — including AI — as its maker, not its follower.
We sat with that for a long time. Because what we heard was not only a framework for children’s education — it was a framework for how all of us might remain fully human in the age of AI.
A belief that grows heavier, in the best way
Peak II Foundation is rooted in Hong Kong, but our concern has never been limited by geography. Dignity, integrity, and the kindness with which people treat one another are not local ideals — they are human ones.
Every individual empowered becomes part of a wider ripple — toward a stronger Hong Kong, a more equitable China, and a more compassionate, connected world.
Eighteen years of Adream’s steady work have made this conviction heavier — in the best possible way. What they do is what we believe: in a time that risks letting technology scatter us, they pull education back to what it has always been about — human-centred, full of love, and honest in the pursuit of truth.
It is an honour to walk alongside such fellow travellers.
Peak II Foundation will continue to anchor our work in this same belief — investing in people who help people, so that the force of good can ripple outward, through every pair of hands it empowers.
— Peak II Foundation
Empower Education, Elevate the Future
在AI浪潮裡，守住教育的本來面目
真愛夢想2026公益交流會後記
香港，M+博物館，2026年5月11日。
那一天的下午，我們坐在台下，聽真愛夢想的夥伴們講述十八年來他們在中國大地上走過的路——從一所所「夢想中心」，到全國31個省級區域、310萬名師生。
走出會場時，心裡沉甸甸的。一邊是這個時代令人目眩的進步——AI、演算法、科技紅利，一年比一年來得更快；另一邊，是我們仍未真正照亮的角落——在中國，依然有孩子連讀書的機會也談不上。進步從來不是均勻分布的。這正是公益存在的理由。
我們相信的，他們做到了
對崇嶺基金會而言，這一場交流會，最有重量的，是看見我們所支持的理念，在真愛夢想的實踐裡，真正落了地。
我們相信，改變是透過人與人之間的關係流動的。一個被賦能的人，會成為托舉身邊每一個人的力量——我們稱之為「乘數效應」。真愛夢想把這份信念，做到了一個我們罕見看到的尺度：
一所「夢想中心」賦能一位老師，
一位老師點亮一整間課室，
一間課室重塑一個鄉村社區。
這是我們所說的「投資於能幫助別人的人」——在中國的山海之間，被一所基金會做了十八年。
在AI浪潮裡，他們選擇按下慢一拍
最讓我們動容的，是他們對AI的態度。
當整個世界都在追逐技術噱頭、急著「擁抱AI」的時候，真愛夢想反而鄭重提出了三條AI倫理原則：
一、安全可控，以人為本。
二、AI輔助而非替代，堅守教育本質。
三、務實普惠，不追技術噱頭。
三句話讀來樸素，卻是一份在這個時代難得的清醒。它沒有否定AI的力量，但它劃出了一條清楚的界線——技術可以接手重複的事務，但教育的核心，永遠屬於人。
把演算法擋在門外不是答案，把演算法奉若神明也不是。真正成熟的姿態，是讓技術做技術該做的事，把教育的溫度，留給老師。
「有愛」與「求真」——重新定義教育的本來面目
去年，真愛夢想升級了他們的教育理念。我們聽到時，幾乎想站起來鼓掌。
「有愛」不是一句溫柔的話。愛，是一種給予的能力。
他們希望幫助孩子學會經營三種關係：
- 和自己的關係——悅納自己，保持心理健康；
- 和他人的關係——看見別人，學會協作；
- 和世界的關係——感知萬物，心懷感恩。
當一個孩子能自我覺察，能好好說話，也能好好傾聽；能為自己高興，也能為別人高興——他就有了在技術洪流裡依然鮮活生長的力氣。
而「求真」，則回應了這個時代最稀缺的能力。這個時代不缺少資訊，真正稀缺的，是分辨真相的能力。 真愛夢想要教孩子三件事：
- 在冗餘資訊裡抓住本質；
- 在眾聲喧嘩裡守住獨立思考；
- 在工具面前，不做聽話的隨從。
我們聽完，沉默了很久。因為這不只是一份兒童教育的綱領——這是一份對所有人都成立的、在AI時代如何做人的綱領。
一份越來越重的相信
崇嶺基金會根植於香港，但我們從未把眼光局限於一城一地。我們相信，尊嚴、誠信、彼此相待的善意，從來不是地方理想，而是人類共同的理想。
每一個被賦能的人，都會成為更廣的漣漪的一部分——讓香港更強，讓中國更公平，讓我們共同生活的世界，更有溫度。
真愛夢想十八年走過的路，讓我們對這份信念更加篤定。他們所做的，正是我們所相信的——在一個容易被技術衝散的時代，把教育拉回它本來的樣子：以人為本、有愛、求真。
我們很榮幸，能與這樣一群同路人並肩同行。
未來，崇嶺基金會也會繼續以這份信念為錨——投資於能幫助別人的人，讓善的力量，在更多人手中漣漪般擴散下去。
— 崇嶺基金會
培力教育・提升未來
