If you would turn to page 13 of the Home section of Saturdays news papers and you will be presented with a page filled with political issues pertaining to our homeland. Now, look on the left hand side of the page and you’ll see MM Lee picture encased in a rectangular box of orange. Great, now read that part that is labeled Educating A Country.

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Ok. Now that you’ve read the article, let me give me my views on this education policy that the government introduced.

As MM Lee has stated, the introduction of a second language in schools can be considered extreme as it may have caused riots. In order for this not to happen, they needed to give people an impression that they have a choice. I think that this is quite devious as it only revolves around 2 choices, and the choices are more or less the same. Yet people are satisfied with this arrangement. However, with the obvious biasness the market was giving to people who had English language as their first language, families are starting to shift their children to schools with English as their first language. This was a natural instinct that was being infused to people at that point in time where the Western powers were considered superior to others. After time, schools with mother tongue languages as their first language lost popularity and eventually closed down. A similar version of these schools would be SAP schools like Dunman High and Anglican High. Yet with globalization, countries are becoming more “equal”, and coupled with rising powerhouses China and India, Singapore should reconsider reintroducing schools with different first languages. This would facilitate better relations with countries such as China and India and not just the Western Powers.