Intelligence is not just about scoring high marks in exams
The discussion on the need for our top students to become world beaters reminds one of the campaigns emphasising the highly educated (smart) versus the rest (not-so-smart).
Like those campaigns this issue seems predicated on the same assumption that importance = intelligence = high academic attainment.
Human [...]
Money No Enough (1998) was Jack Neo’s first movie on the big screen. I believe it’s also the first local chinese movie in a very long time. Till date, it still holds the highest box office returns, the 3rd highest grossing movie in Singapore ($5.84m), just behind Titanic and The Lost World.
Here’s some interesting [...]
By Catherine Lim
Jan 20, 2006
The Straits Times
FOR a small island state eager to take its place among the most successful nations in the free world of practising democracies, one would have expected to see a steady increase in political freedom, an ascending line from its virtual non-existence in the rough early years of brute survival, [...]
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