COME Aug 31 next year, we will all be joining in the celebration of our beloved country’s 50th Merdeka anniversary. Half a century of independence funded massive programmes to eradicate illiteracy (remember the adult education classes that sprang up everywhere?), poverty (think Felda, the largest land development and resettlement scheme of its kind in the world!) and infant mortality (all the rural and small town health clinics and hospitals, which the rural areas never saw in 150 years of colonialism).
Think of the thousands and thousands of schools taking almost all our children through secondary education when most of their forbears were only given six years of primary education. Look at the number of universities, public and private, that we now have when we had none on Merdeka Day in 1957.
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