A lesson in democracy


IT had been some years since I taught students in a classroom, since being an Adjunct Teaching Fellow at Sunway University in 2015, and a Fellow with some teaching responsibilities at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore in 2009 – and I remember a fun music lesson I co-taught with a Teach for Malaysia Fellow in 2013.

So when I was asked to teach a group of teenagers last week, I was both nervous and excited.

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