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</TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- headline one : end --></TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- Author --></TD></TR><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Zakir Hussain, Political Correspondent
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->SRI Temasek is the official residence of the Prime Minister and when Mr Lee Kuan Yew assumed the post 50 years ago, he and his wife took their three young children there to play.
The bungalow in the Istana is on high ground, and the ball their sons and daughter were playing with rolled down the slope.
'The butler ran 50 or 60 yards to pick up the ball and bring it back,' recalled the Minister Mentor last night.
'My wife and I watched that and said, 'No, no, if we stay here for five years, my children will grow up believing that life is like that, that somebody will always pick up balls for them,' he said. 'So we stayed at home (in Oxley Road) and I think that's been good for them.'
Mr Lee related this anecdote at a university forum, to show how he and Mrs Lee made sure their children grew up self-reliant.
However, his grandchildren were growing up much more comfortably, MM said. 'That is the problem we face today' - many parents understand what it is to be poor, but their children do not, he added.
Mr Lee was speaking at the annual Kent Ridge Ministerial Forum, organised by the National University of Singapore Students' Political Association and attended by 1,200 students and academics.
Among them was fourth-year science undergraduate Jang Jia Hui, who wanted to know what the Minister Mentor felt were the most important values and attitudes youth should have for Singapore to continue to thrive and prosper.
Mr Lee replied: 'You should have the same values and attitudes that your father and your grandfather had.'
When Ms Jang disclosed that her father was Singapore-born while her grandfather came from elsewhere, MM Lee said: 'Your grandfather probably worked harder than your father, because he came here as a migrant, and as you can see, our new migrants push very hard to succeed in a foreign land.
'And it was that spirit that got us here. Had we not had people with that attitude, 'We'll make it, do or die', we wouldn't have today's Singapore.'
He added: 'You cease to make the effort, you cease to be like this.'
Relating another incident, Mr Lee talked about flying over New Zealandand how the rural scene would probably be the same in 100 years' time.
'And I thought to myself: What will happen to Singapore in a hundred years? I don't know. Can we get successive generations to understand that we have built this edifice?'
Mr Lee then spoke at length on the dangers of voting in 'a dud lot' to run the country. 'Even though you work hard, you work hard to no purpose,' he said.
That is why Singapore needs a people with drive, and a leadership that anticipates the future. 'Then we can sit down and talk about what will happen in 50 years. Otherwise, we'll just be scratching a living. So, please don't forget that,' said Mr Lee, referring to the forum's theme, 'What will the next 50 years have in store for Singapore?'
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</TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- headline one : end --></TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- Author --></TD></TR><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Zakir Hussain, Political Correspondent
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->SRI Temasek is the official residence of the Prime Minister and when Mr Lee Kuan Yew assumed the post 50 years ago, he and his wife took their three young children there to play.
The bungalow in the Istana is on high ground, and the ball their sons and daughter were playing with rolled down the slope.
'The butler ran 50 or 60 yards to pick up the ball and bring it back,' recalled the Minister Mentor last night.
'My wife and I watched that and said, 'No, no, if we stay here for five years, my children will grow up believing that life is like that, that somebody will always pick up balls for them,' he said. 'So we stayed at home (in Oxley Road) and I think that's been good for them.'
Mr Lee related this anecdote at a university forum, to show how he and Mrs Lee made sure their children grew up self-reliant.
However, his grandchildren were growing up much more comfortably, MM said. 'That is the problem we face today' - many parents understand what it is to be poor, but their children do not, he added.
Mr Lee was speaking at the annual Kent Ridge Ministerial Forum, organised by the National University of Singapore Students' Political Association and attended by 1,200 students and academics.
Among them was fourth-year science undergraduate Jang Jia Hui, who wanted to know what the Minister Mentor felt were the most important values and attitudes youth should have for Singapore to continue to thrive and prosper.
Mr Lee replied: 'You should have the same values and attitudes that your father and your grandfather had.'
When Ms Jang disclosed that her father was Singapore-born while her grandfather came from elsewhere, MM Lee said: 'Your grandfather probably worked harder than your father, because he came here as a migrant, and as you can see, our new migrants push very hard to succeed in a foreign land.
'And it was that spirit that got us here. Had we not had people with that attitude, 'We'll make it, do or die', we wouldn't have today's Singapore.'
He added: 'You cease to make the effort, you cease to be like this.'
Relating another incident, Mr Lee talked about flying over New Zealandand how the rural scene would probably be the same in 100 years' time.
'And I thought to myself: What will happen to Singapore in a hundred years? I don't know. Can we get successive generations to understand that we have built this edifice?'
Mr Lee then spoke at length on the dangers of voting in 'a dud lot' to run the country. 'Even though you work hard, you work hard to no purpose,' he said.
That is why Singapore needs a people with drive, and a leadership that anticipates the future. 'Then we can sit down and talk about what will happen in 50 years. Otherwise, we'll just be scratching a living. So, please don't forget that,' said Mr Lee, referring to the forum's theme, 'What will the next 50 years have in store for Singapore?'
[email protected]
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