Lee kill you

[TeeKee]

You marry a non-graduate, then you are going to worry if your son or daughter is going to make it to the university.”

- Lee Kuan Yew speaking at Human Capital Summit, 24 October 2008

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/385201/1/.html

rubbish statement, you neber heard of taxi drivers with primary schools education, their sons and daugthers graduated from NUS? There's even a storekeeper son who graduated from Cambridge?

Lee Kuan Yew

Born: 16-Sep-1923
Birthplace: Singapore

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Asian
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Head of State

Nationality: Singapore
Executive summary: Prime Minister of Singapore, 1959-90

Father: Lee Chin Koon (storekeeper)
Mother: Chua Jim Neo
Brother: Dennis
Brother: Freddy
Brother: Suan Yew
Sister: Monica
Wife: Kwa Geok Choo (m. 30-Sep-1950, two sons, one daughter)
Son: Lee Hsien Loong (Prime Minister of Singapore, b. 10-Feb-1952)
Son: Lee Hsien Yang (President of SingTel, b. 1957)
Daughter: Lee Wei Ling (administrator)

High School: Raffles Institution, Singapore
University: Raffles College (now the National University of Singapore)
University: Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University
University: London School of Economics

Singaporean Minister Minister Mentor (2004-)
Singaporean Minister Senior Minister (1990-2004)
Prime Minister of Singapore 3-Jun-1959 to 28-Nov-1990
JP Morgan Chase International Council

Author of books:
The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew (1998, memoir)
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story (2000, memoir)

 

[Balancemind]

i seriously doubt LaoLee parents were Uni grads...

The little that we know is that the pa pa was a watch salesman at B P De Silva and the ma ma was a housewife who only became a bit well known when she published a cook book after her family has control of this little red dot. Old man has forgot the humble roots of his:p

 

[myjohnson]

I had the pleasure of a long chat with a taxi driver even when I had reached my destination. We talked about raising kids and he showed me a name card and family photo of his son. At that time a few years back, the name card read Brigadier General, Mindef. I could not recall the name or face. LKY had let him slipped through his fingers.

 

[khunking]

Spot on. Dad was a non-grad who used to hang out a lot at Joo Chiat pre-vietnam invasion.

i seriously doubt LaoLee parents were Uni grads...