Field notes, v1753
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Feb. 6. The government plans to build more schools. It is not expected, for example, that the Victoria Institution will expand. We met a slender, enthusiastic, bright young Senior Science Master, Mr. Yeoh Bon Chye, a biologist trained at Queensland University, Brisbane, Aus. Senior science master's [illegible] scholarship students assigned to schools by the government. He showed us about the science labs. In the physics lab was a motto over the blackboard that read: "Theory without practice is empty" Practice without theory is blind" Baker said there is no use in increasing number of schools giving Form 6 unless university offering is increase. Universities could not handle increase. He said that at one time in Malaya teaching had high prestige but that now the profession competes unfavourably with industry and governmental positions. Science education is at high premium in Malaya, the public is grateful to those who elect to go into teaching but they are, nevertheless not accorded prestige.