I refer to the 11 Jul 2014 Straits Times report “Govt committed to helping S’poreans master mother tongue”.
PM Lee claims that schools in the 1950s either taught in English or in Chinese but not both. That is not true. Mr Lee Kong Chian had already introduced bilingual education to the Chinese High School in 1949 and also proposed bilingual and trilingual education for the country in 1953 before PAP was founded:
• 1934 – 1955: Served as chairman of the management committee of Chinese High School. In 1949, he convinced the principal to introduce bilingual education.
• 1953: Proposed introducing bilingual and trilingual education, and equal treatment for schools of all language streams. His proposals were accepted by the colonial government and included in the White Paper on Education Policy that introduced a unified education system for Singapore.
[http://infopedia.nl.sg/articles/SIP_978_2006-06-16.html]
PM Lee has the cheek to say that it was government policies that safeguarded the Chinese language in Singapore when in the first place it was the PAP that many authors pointed to as the culprit that destroyed Chinese schools in Singapore.
More .... http://trulysingapore.wordpress.com...nt-responsible-for-falling-chinese-standards/
PM Lee claims that schools in the 1950s either taught in English or in Chinese but not both. That is not true. Mr Lee Kong Chian had already introduced bilingual education to the Chinese High School in 1949 and also proposed bilingual and trilingual education for the country in 1953 before PAP was founded:
• 1934 – 1955: Served as chairman of the management committee of Chinese High School. In 1949, he convinced the principal to introduce bilingual education.
• 1953: Proposed introducing bilingual and trilingual education, and equal treatment for schools of all language streams. His proposals were accepted by the colonial government and included in the White Paper on Education Policy that introduced a unified education system for Singapore.
[http://infopedia.nl.sg/articles/SIP_978_2006-06-16.html]
PM Lee has the cheek to say that it was government policies that safeguarded the Chinese language in Singapore when in the first place it was the PAP that many authors pointed to as the culprit that destroyed Chinese schools in Singapore.
More .... http://trulysingapore.wordpress.com...nt-responsible-for-falling-chinese-standards/
