Au revoir, Madam Gan!


A great influence: Gan at a Teachers Day school celebration in 2016. She has served in MBS for 32 years.

AFTER more than three decades of service, Methodist Boys’ School (MBS), Kuala Lumpur, Form Six senior assistant Gan Swit Peng, who also teaches Physics and Mathematics, will retire on Sept 11.

As a student, Gan had aspired to become a teacher. She saw teaching as a noble career, believing that teachers had a tremendous impact on the lives of their students and played a role in the building of a nation.

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