MM Lee is only vocing his opinion. He is not someone who can
enact his words into law. We still have a PM to do so, on advise
and counsel from MPs and the cabinet.
Anyone is free to voice his/her opinions. We live in a
democracy. So to are rebuttals and criticisms of his opinion.
BUT despite all thru the noise and babble he aroused, do analyze
what his concerns really are.
They are for an intelligent society. He don't need power, he
already had it. He don't need wealth, he's too much of it. He only
wants our society to have capable leaders for the baby he helped
created - Singapore, before he passes on.
Billions had been dumped on education over the years and we have
yet to create a nobel prize laureate , or booker prize winner, even
an olympian to inspire us to greater heights.
He desperately believes and is obsessed that intelligence
or capability can be inherited, or nurtured, but ONLY by
fellow intelligent beings, with higher odds.
I am a man of science, but yet till today, there is no empirical
evidence to suggest such a theory true, for there are too many
cases of intelligence being radomly gifted across humanity, of
differing backgrounds.
The only proposal i can offer for the birth of capable leaders
is opportunity. A diverse range of people being given opportunity
to shine - to be elevated or demoted on his own worth - regardless
of his social or bundle of certificates level, just as our
forefathers who made Singapore successful had been given.
Even MM Lee's dad and mom were no graduates yet MM Lee went on
to Uni and ruled a country, if following his logic on heritage,
which is already flawed by his own living evidence.
To continue on the flawed eugenics line would only divide our
society and tear up our social fabric between the have and the have
nots, destroying the very equality our forefathers had worked so
hard for to bestow upon us, and causing the lower educated or poor
to give up even attempts to try at greatness.
