Brainwashing Education starts young. A picture of a Primary School Chinese textbook has been making the rounds on the Internet and offering glimpses of what students learn in schools today.
According to one of the stories in the textbook, there was once upon a time, a great gardener who painstakingly sowed the seeds for Singapore's success. The loose translation goes like this:
Once upon a time, the gardener planted a tree in Holland Village. Since then, he will plant a tree every year, without fail, on our small little island.
Today, the small island has flourished into a huge garden with tall, strong trees and flowers in bloom.
We live in this beautiful island. We love this beautiful garden. We are grateful to the great gardener and he is none other than Mr Lee Kuan Yew!
Yay. Happy story, happy ending.
Their feel-good education will only give the younger generation a rude shock when they learn about the harsh realities of living in this beautiful garden.
And by then, there will be nobody to teach them how to cope or survive.
