School system ‘still best way to move up’
Dear Dr Ng, I refer to the 8 Mar 2011 Straits Times articles: - School system 'still best way to move up' - How high can Amos go? - MPs speak for kids from poorer families - The surgeon-turned-minister who grew up in a Queenstown flat - Ensuring the S'pore Dream is not an impossible one It is said that half of the students from...
MM: If you’re going in for personal glory, forget it
Dear MM Lee, I refer to the 12 Feb 2011 excerpts of your interview with the Straits Times. Your most important lesson for aspiring politicians is to forget about going for personal glory. For someone who didn't do it for personal glory, wouldn't you push glory away when they are being heaped upon you? Many call you the founding...
A Singapore lesson for US politics
Dear Mr Friedman, I refer to the 31 Jan 2011 Straits Times reprint of your New York Times article. You were reportedly struck by the linkage between the direction to which our science teacher is pushing her students and the direction to which our government is pushing the country. But our government hasn't always pushed in the...
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