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SM Goh says schools must produce students for post-crisis world Singapore's Senior Minister, Goh Chok Tong, said schools need to produce students who are ready to cope with a new post-crisis world. But as schools prepare students to seek opportunities overseas, Mr Goh said there is also the challenge to get them to think about Singapore when they are working abroad and contribute to their country of birth. Addressing the 70th anniversary gathering of Chung Cheng High School on Saturday evening, Mr Goh said countries which better educate their citizens today will out-perform others tomorrow. And so schools should prepare students to compete against their peers in Shanghai, Stockholm and San Francisco, and prepare them for economic opportunities in China and India. Mr Goh said: "We need to produce students who are world-ready, students who are informed about local and global affairs, students who are able to navigate in an emerging Asia and yet understand Western thought and management systems, and students who are capable of leading overseas businesses whether in the West or Asia." He said Singapore's students need to be imbued with entrepreneurial spirit to push boundaries, adapt to change and seize new opportunities and at the same time be reminded of their ties to Singapore. Mr Goh continued: "What we must try to achieve is to retain their emotional bonds to Singapore so that they think of Singapore as the home which nurtured them and want to contribute in some ways to the country of their birth. This is best done in schools while they are young." And while they may work overseas for prolonged periods, Mr Goh said the young must appreciate that their advancement is made possible by the society they grew up in and the investments of their parents, their teachers, their community and their government. Hence, they should not take the programmes to expose them both in and outside Singapore for granted. But Mr Goh also said by preparing students to be entrepreneurial, Singapore is also giving them wings. He said more than one fifth of top A-level students from some 10 years ago are not working in Singapore now. Still, Mr Goh said Singapore will not pull back on giving the young the best education and instead applaud those who wish to work and live overseas. Some 180,000 Singaporeans are currently based overseas.
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