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Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong expressed his deep gratitude to Zhonghua Secondary School during their 100th Year Anniversary Celebration Gala Dinner where he was the guest-of-honour.
At a video shown at Zhonghua Secondary School's 100th anniversary, the Prime Minister's eldest son, Lee Yi Peng spoke about how he benefitted from his education at the school: "I'd been used to a different school culture from the Zhonghua culture. It took me some time to adjust to the school but I would say that I'm very happy that I've had some caring friends who helped me.
"I would also like to give credit to a number of teachers who really made me feel at home and who are still very special to me til this day. "
Yi Peng has Asperger's syndrome and is an albino. He had to overcome his shyness and his half blindness. He was enrolled in the school from 1997 to 2000, after many schools refused to take him in.
Zhonghua's then-principal Mrs Chua Yen Ching, who was described by Lee Kuan Yew as a compassionate person, agreed to enrol him.
"I can speak with confidence that the school looks after its students well because my son came to this school. And I'm very deeply grateful for all that the principal and the teachers did for him, and what they made him into."
Speaking to 1,300 alumni at Zhonghua Secondary School's 100th anniversary dinner, Prime Minister Lee stressed the government's commitment to raising the quality of education in Singapore.
He said: "We will continue to improve our education system - to raise the quality of every school, whether neighbourhood schools, vocational institutes, or schools for students with special needs.
"We will create many more pathways to success, not just a single, narrow road to the top. And we will give every Singaporean child the opportunity to succeed and the means to achieve his potential and fulfil his goals.
"To do this, we need more than a good government and the government's work. We need a much broader involvement - parents, alumni, the community, all coming together to support our schools.
"After Singapore became independent in 1965, the government made education one of our top national priorities. We did this to promote nation-building, especially for a young and multi-ethnic country. We did this to grow our economy, as people were our only resource and we had to invest in them.
"We did this to give every Singaporean the opportunity to achieve his potential, as an embodiment of a meritocratic society where we let 100 flowers bloom."
if this was Wong Zee Fatt son, would they accord a similar service?. No need explanation.
