221 Feb. 11 Joy had little comment. I noted that many of the students in the adjoining physics lab. were Chinese. It came out that because I a more erudite have background and emphasis on math in elementary school in the Chinese schools, that selection favors the Chinese 2/3 of the students that reach Form 1 are said to be Chinese. The Malays tend to do better in the arts stream. Schools in the backcountry do little with science topics. Furthermore the poorer Malayan students come from poor homes. If there is a crop failure, a boy may have to drop out of form 6 to take a job to help his parents. I found that Mr. Thampi was familiar with the CBA. We feels there is little point in taking time out for historical aspects in the physical sciences. It may even be confusing to some students. Once when he was presenting Dalton's atomic theory I used indivisible atoms, a student protested that atoms were divisible. Mr. Joy appears to be a person who despairs of teaching biology because of equipment shortages. Mr. Nate said he has continually hoped to see a few live animals in the lab but there is nothing. The Form 5 level now requires a habitat approach. Thampi felt one way to up-grade science teaching would be to have work shops in a Singapore school that is using PSSC. Teachers could be sent for training. The Colombo plan is doing a good