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My Lifelong Challenge Singapore's Bilingual Journey
My Lifelong Challenge Singapore's Bilingual Journey Author:Lee Kuan Yew In My Lifelong Challenge, we learn of the many policy adjustments and the — challenges Lee Kuan Yew encountered - from Chinese language chauvinists — who wanted Chinese to be the preeminent language in Singapore, from — Malay and Tamil community groups fearing that Chinese was being given — too much emphasis, from parents of all races wanting an eas... more »ier time for
their school-going children, from his own Cabinet colleagues questioning
his assumptions about language. We learn of the pain of teachers forced to
switch from teaching in Chinese to teaching in English almost overnight, and
of students who were caught in the transition from a Chinese medium of
instruction to an English one.
My Lifelong Challenge is also the story of Lee's own struggle to learn the
Chinese language. This book describes vividly his steely determination to
improve his Chinese and reclaim his Chinese heritage, right up to the present
when he is well into his 80s. Lee distils his experiences of 50 years into eight
precepts that he spells out at the end of his narrative.« less