This article argues that Lung Yingtai’s intellectual essays can stimulate the learning of civic education through their topics of discussion and methods of expression. Her book Lung Yingtai’s Notes on Hong Kong reveals to us a public intellectual who has the courage to speak her mind and participates in public affairs through writing imbued with knowledge and conscience. She believes that responsible citizens should have a deep feeling for humanity and respect for culture, history, and nature. They should be aware of the world around them and care for others with justice and empathy in their hearts. According to Lung, what responsible citizens strive for is a civilized society of democracy, freedom, order, and equality. Lung writes with vigour, emotion, and reason, and uses metaphors, stories, parallel sentences, and rhetorical questions to great effect. Her essays can be used as teaching materials for both literature and civic education because they can encourage young people to think critically, feel deeply, and act sensibly, which are the major functions of education. Moreover, Lung’s lucidly written essays can help to improve the literacy of young citizens, who can learn from Lung how to understand the ideas of others and transform their own into vivid language. In this way, their civic voices may bring the hope of a bettering society.