‘We migrated to spare our kid further misery with Chinese’
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Originally posted by angel3070:
You mean no one said anything to Mr Lee?
Wednesday, 02 December 2009
Chee Soon Juan
For 40 years, Singaporeans were forced to practice something that was contrary to human nature and nobody said anything about it. I am, of course, referring to Mr Lee Kuan Yew's recent confession that his bilingual policy was wrong.
To be sure the surprise is not that Mr Lee was wrong, for the Minister Mentor has been spectacularly wrong on many occasions – the most embarrassing being his prediction that Singapore was entering a "golden period" just months before the economy crashed (see here).
What is surprising is that it has taken all this time for the Government to realise this error when there was clear evidence, both scientifically and politically, to demonstrate the inanity of Mr Lee's policy.
I had written in a book that I co-authored with my wife, Dr Huang Chihmei, that the English language is processed very differently by the brain compared to Chinese.
I pointed out that while English is based on the alphabet and read phonetically, the Chinese language consists of characters which are recognised pictorially. These languages are learnt through different neural systems, involving different regions of the brain.
(The book, entitled Effective Parenting for the Asian Family, was published in 1995 but its publisher Heinemann Asia inexplicably cut short its shelf-life and got rid of the remaining copies.)
I had also pointed out in letters to the Ministry of Education that was published in the Straits Times Forum in 1993 as well as in my book Dare To Change that such brain functions are still developing in students.
Streaming children according to their language ability when these neural systems have yet to mature is thus not a smart thing to do.
Nearly 20 years later, Mr Lee Kuan Yew cites his daughter's neurological knowledge and finally admits that things have gone wrong.
Two major concerns arise: First, how many lives have been negatively and unalterably affected by this policy? Many parents left Singapore because they feared that their children could not cope in school under this bilingual policy.
How many people had their educational advancement curtailed because they were not able to master both languages? In economic terms, how much talent have we missed out or lost through the brain drain?
Second why, through all these years, didn't any of the ministers point out to Mr Lee that he was wrong? For decades all the ministers seemed to be in perfect agreement.
Were there no ministers, ministers of state, permanent secretaries, etc at the Ministry of Education who detected the faulty policy?
This is the tragedy of Singapore. Mr Lee's personal experiences and ramblings often become diktat, and pass for policy-making processes. And when policy is made, no one dares to question it.
Are ministers paid so highly and intimidated so thoroughly that no one thinks of saying anything to Mr Lee when policies don't work? Is groupthink so prevalent within the cabinet?
Tragic as it is, the bilingual policy is not the most egregious as far as PAP policies are concerned. Of much greater consequence is Mr Lee's Stop-At-Two Policy and the Graduate Mothers Scheme. These were borne out of a mixture of the MM's hopelessly poor grasp of what constituted hereditary intelligence and his bigotry.
Women, especially those at the lower end of the economic and educational scales, were enticed and/or theatened into having their reproductive organs violated in order to stop them from procreating during the years when the Government was hellbent on keeping families small.
This helped to retard the national birthrate to the present extent that we, as a people, cannot replace ourselves.
Now Mr Lee insists that we need to import foreigners enmasse to make up for the shortfall, never mind the social and economic consequences. Again no debate, no discussion.
Again, all the ministers seem to be perfectly in sync with their Mentor. Either that or everyone's just waiting for Mr Lee's next confession.http://www.yoursdp.org/index.php/news/singapore/3139-you-mean-no-one-said-anything-to-mr-lee
Lee Kuan Yew commited so many mistakes and errors in policy but no one in PAP dared to criticise Lee Kuan Yew.
We the people have to suffer for it.
PAP bastards then come and criticise us when their rubbish policies are at fault.
Funny how, only when MM Lee said he make a mistake, then opposition realized his mistake.
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Originally posted by Herzog_Zwei:
Can you please quit sucking CSJ's little Dickie? Tommies have left the governance of Singapore to the government of Singapore, mind your own business and quit sticking your little Dickie in the business of the British.
what is a dickie?? anything to do with charles dickens? -
Originally posted by angel7030:
what is a dickie?? anything to do with charles dickens?
Probably it has something to do with the anti-ship torpedo you have in your mouth. -
Originally posted by Herzog_Zwei:
Probably it has something to do with the anti-ship torpedo you have in your mouth.
well, i got 2 big nuclear plants in my chest, as for torpedo, i guess you got one with two big salvos ya -
Originally posted by angel7030:
well, i got 2 big nuclear plants in my chest, as for torpedo, i guess you got one with two big salvos ya
Nope, but a nuclear sub may launch all its 12 torpedoes into your mouth. -
Originally posted by Herzog_Zwei:
Nope, but a nuclear sub may launch all its 12 torpedoes into your mouth.
you are right -
Originally posted by Herzog_Zwei:
Nope, but a nuclear sub may launch all its 12 torpedoes into your mouth.
hope yr torpedoe heads is still working...use my patriot missiles to intercept yeah!!! -
Originally posted by tan reborn:
you are right
no, he is in the left -
Originally posted by angel7030:
hope yr torpedoe heads is still working...use my patriot missiles to intercept yeah!!!
IF patriot missiles can work underwater and at point blank range. -
Originally posted by Herzog_Zwei:
IF patriot missiles can work underwater and at point blank range.
so be it, you cannot underestimate weapon technologies -
Originally posted by angel7030:
so be it, you cannot underestimate weapon technologies
No,we underestimate your stupidity. -
Originally posted by Herzog_Zwei:
No,we underestimate your stupidity.
Oh, so i am actually clever hor....the cantonses used to say, act pig to eat the tiger -
Originally posted by angel7030:
Oh, so i am actually clever hor....the cantonses used to say, act pig to eat the tiger
lucky you are not doctor or scentificotherwise our earth would be in great choatic
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Originally posted by tan reborn:
lucky you are not doctor or scentificotherwise our earth would be in great choatic
u just sit tight at the toilet bowl and wait for 2012 Dec 21st, if nothing happen, God bless you -
Originally posted by angel7030:
u just sit tight at the toilet bowl and wait for 2012 Dec 21st, if nothing happen, God bless you
what talking you -
Originally posted by tan reborn:
what talking you
nothing -
Originally posted by angel7030:
nothing
you spicy gingerl think ginger bread better
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Originally posted by tan reborn:
you spicy gingerl think ginger bread better
nothing also get named...Haiz! -
Originally posted by angel7030:
nothing also get named...Haiz!
Why will you want to continue hanging your clitoris out of the shell that contain your Taiwanese 'hum' ?Are you waiting for your clitoris to be clipped and you will then stop wagging it to get your daily orgasmic fix and satisfy your needs as an "Attention Seeking Whore" ?