The Huffington Post – David Scott Clegg
“How did an island nation of five million people become one of the elite education systems on the planet? What is their secret, their special formula? What is the Singapore story? Singapore’s meteoric rise as an education power has been nothing less than remarkable. It has taken just over four decades — slightly more than one generation — to evolve from an essentially illiterate nation with virtually no natural resources to a world-class education system, and a rapidly expanding knowledge economy. There was no magic formula for their rise. In fact, it was not even a new formula…there was once a country that accomplished a similar meteoric rise as a society and economy…This country had great leadership, visionary stewardship. It established the best education system in the world, top to bottom. It revered — and supported — its teachers; developed its citizens’ capacity; and produced unparalleled creativity and innovation in modern times. It became the model for free market and a free society. It became the most powerful nation in the world…That was America. This is our heritage as a nation. What we will become, what we are perhaps destined to be, remains to be written — through the actions to be a taken.”(more)