Retired principal gives back to society

Supplementary resource: Deputy Education Minister Datuk Dr Mah Hang Soon (left) and Kok at the book launch held at the Education Ministry recently.

HE may have retired from the government school scene some 20 years ago but life in the teaching profession still continues for veteran educator Thomas Kok.

Now 76, the former principal of four secondary schools teaches the English language at a learning and training institute in Ipoh, where he had served as principal until last June, since retiring from SMK Methodist ACS, Ipoh, in 2000.