LKY is a lawyer ahead of his time. How many lawyers do u see in the 50s?
Here's a comparison of just the educational background:
Lee Kuan Yew
Education[edit]
In 1931, Lee Kuan Yew studied at
Telok Kurau English School in Singapore. He described his schoolmates at Telok Kurau as generally poor and not very bright. He then attended
Raffles Institution in 1935, where he had difficulties keeping up because he met the top 150 students from all over Singapore. Lee joined the
Scouts for three years, played
cricket,
tennis, and
chess, and
debated for the school. He obtained several scholarships, and came top in the School Certificate examinations in 1940, gaining the John Anderson scholarship to attend
Raffles College(now
National University of Singapore). Lee's future wife,
Kwa Geok Choo, was his classmate and the only girl at Raffles Institution at that time. Kwa, who was a brilliant student herself, was the only one to beat his scores in the English and economics subjects.
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Lee's university education was delayed by
World War II and the
Japanese occupation of Singapore from 1942 to 1945. After the war, Lee went on to study in England. He briefly attended
London School of Economics as enrolment at the University of Cambridge had already closed. He related that London overwhelmed him and he sought the more pleasant surroundings of Cambridge, where he read law at
Fitzwilliam College. A fellow Raffles College student introduced him to the Censor of Fitzwilliam House, W. S. Thatcher, who admitted him for the 1947 Lent term. He matriculated in January 1947.
Lee graduated First Class in both parts of the Tripos with an exceptional Starred-First for Part II Law in 1949; this placed him at the very top of his cohort, and he was awarded the Fitzwilliam's Whitlock Prize. He was placed above two contemporaries who later became Professors of Law in Cambridge, including
Elihu Lauterpacht.
[34] Lee was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1950. In 1969, he was elected an honorary fellow of Fitzwilliam College and was the most senior of the College's Honorary Fellows for many years. In 1971, Lee gave the Foundation Lecture – "East and West: the twain have met".
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I am not fucking joking.... I went to Wiki to lookup Heng Swee Kiat's educational background. It didn't even warrant a paragraph. I can only find snippets of it by the side of his profile.
Heng Swee Keat