How much my parents spent on me on schooling (so far)

recently, it said it required 5millions HKD for a child to properly study in HK education system. it is all bull shit. if we put this as investment, that mean most HK parents are not a efficacious investor, who spend a lot of money in cheap stock.

i asked my parents about how mush they spent on me:

kindergarten 3 years:  my mom forgot the exact number, but she said not more then 10k a years
Primary school 6 years:  free, only on textbook, from 1000 HKD a year to 2000 HKD a year.
Secondary School 7 years:  free from 1st year to 3rd years. then 500 HKD a month. text book is around 2000 a year.
University 3 years:   Free from grand from government, (~ 120k, living cost borrow from government. )
Graduate school (M. Phil) 2.5 years: 105k
Graduate school (Ph.D) 3 years : 0
Extracurricular activities:
          Swimming (age 6 to 9): many be 3000 HKD in total
          Martial Art (1 years): few hundred, say 500 HKD
          Judo (1 year ): ~ 500HKD
          Tutorial (english, 0.5 year) : ~ 2000 HKD in total
          Graduation trip (to Europe for 1.5 month ) : ~ 50k

Total : 238k < 240k HKD

compare to the "rich" educations ~ 5000k, my parent only spent about 5%.

in my opinion, if thinking children education is an investment, thus, parent spend so much is bad investor.

the important of education is critical thinking, think analytically. not remember a lot of facts, rules. i mean, of course finally we have to know such thing and remember them,  but it is not the goal.

in chinese, about 2500 years before, there is a famous book, called "way of learning" or "the university" (大學), in there, already wrote a famous quote

       comparing with criticizing and analysing is the way of knowing. 致知在格物