50 Years of SG Education

It is 1957. A hungry people still reeling from the destruction wrought by World War II, is keen to find work, food, a roof over their heads and a place in school for at least their sons if not their daughters. But schools are far from innocent spaces. The Chief Minister's government has had to cope with a string of outbreaks of violence, and is convinced that Chinese Middle schools are fertile grounds for Communist-backed activity as their students were routinely excited about causes as diverse as the National Service Ordinance of 1954 and the Hock Lee Bus Riots of 1955.

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