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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.