From: Laremy Lee
Date: March 8, 2009 6:04:59 PM GMT+08:00
To: Ng Bee Chin
Cc: stforum@sph.com.sg, chee_hong_tat@pmo.gov.sg
Subject: You have my support.Dear Professor,
I just read Mr Chee Hong Tat’s letter to the ST Forum Page, which I believe was written on behalf of MM Lee Kuan Yew. If anything, the use of a pejorative to emphasise a point which scarcely needed to have been made was thoroughly unprofessional and uncalled for.
More importantly, the bilingual policy may seem to be the most efficient option, but to speak against introducing alternatives is to disallow the freedom of choice. This is an incongruity which has me feeling rather perturbed, since the Ministry of Education is an advocate of “provid[ing] students with greater choice to meet their different interests and ways of learning”, for the ability “to choose what and how they learn will encourage them to take greater ownership of their learning”.
Nevertheless, I’d like to encourage you not to be discouraged. You have my support, along with that of many other Singaporeans, if you’ve been reading the chatter in the blogosphere.
Keep the vision alive.
Yours sincerely,
Laremy LEE (Mr)
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Past-Present: Craft Communities in Contemporary India.
From: Thu, 19 February – Sun, 31 May 2009.
Exhibition Opening: Fri, 6 March 2009, 6pm – 8pmForming an attempt at understanding modern and contemporary craft practices in the major urban centres of India, the exhibition traces continuity in practices, ideas and concerns surrounding the livelihood of craft communities and the larger postcolonial politics of heritage management. Exhibited artifacts are drawn from the NUS Museum’s South Asian Collection and a recent study trip undertaken by a group of students from the University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore.
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Dear friends, I am very happy to invite all of you to this exhibition as I am also involved in it; I was one of the students who went for the trip last year. Also, I contributed a grand total of one artefact, which you can see physcially at the exhibition, along with a section of an essay, and a 700-word semi-autobiographical/non-fictional piece of fiction, which is in the very nice and very beautiful brochure.
Best of all – the exhibition is FREE! Do go for it if you can, especially if you’re a fan of India/Indian culture and heritage. Hope to see you there!
I seem to have shifted from being a liberal to being a libertarian. Hmmm… Anyway, educators might be pleased to read about this too, that “increasing numbers of high school and college students are being taught that politics is more than a simplistic Left-Right line”.
LIBERTARIANS support maximum liberty in both personal and economic matters. They advocate a much smaller government; one that is limited to protecting individuals from coercion and violence. Libertarians tend to embrace individual responsibility, oppose government bureaucracy and taxes, promote private charity, tolerate diverse lifestyles, support the free market, and defend civil liberties.
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