Pak Tee Ng > Quotes

“is unrealistic to expect teachers to care for their students and their craft on their own, without support from the system, or worse, when they are shackled by the system.”
― Pak Tee Ng, Learning from Singapore: The Power of Paradoxes

“How many of our leaders and top officers who say that every school is a good school put their children in ordinary schools near their home? [Only] until they actually do so are parents going to buy [it].”
― Pak Tee Ng, Learning from Singapore: The Power of Paradoxes

“True strength is not how you can get back at others who have offended you. It takes strength to be gentle.”
― Pak Tee Ng, Learning from Singapore: The Power of Paradoxes

“An education system that separates the children of the wealthy and the middle class from those of the poor and from minorities cannot be considered adequate for a democratic society. 4”
― Pak Tee Ng, Learning from Singapore: The Power of Paradoxes