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By T.K. Taylor
During this wealthy and profitable memoir, T.K.Taylor describes his reports in colleges from Kuala Lumpur to Johore Bahru as he labored within the Colonial provider to aid rebuild the rustic within the aftermath of global struggle II and eastern profession. filled with brilliant anecdote and sharply saw ancient element, his writing takes us from his first days adapting the Western curriculum to neighborhood faculties' must his time as leader schooling Officer for Selangor country, exhibiting the function of schooling within the transition to independence
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The Indians had been brought to Fiji to work the sugar plantations, as had the Malaya Indians who came to work on rubber estates; this was done for the same reason – the native people were not interested in regular daily employment of fixed hours. The problem was that the Indians grew in number to equal the Fijian population, which has caused racial and constitutional difficulties up to the present time. My first stay in the tropics accordingly passed very happily; the only drawback was that it was so brief.
However, those completing qualifications in later years, as mentioned earlier, had several years of unemployment, ameliorated by makeshift arrangements. Taking the age of 20 as the point of comparison, there would be at least ten well-marked successive age groups in this century, each with different ideologies and social attitudes. No wonder children and parents 30 years or so apart often do not understand each other. Real effort by those concerned is necessary to achieve a viable, let alone a happy relationship.
Those with the highest marks in the preliminary test went into the instrument repairing course, where some more advanced mathematical knowledge and the highest standards of accuracy were essential. This course was more demanding, but of course absolute standards of accuracy were emphasised in all the courses. It should also be explained that these preliminary courses were as important as grading and assessment procedures as much as they were instructional classes. The recruits varied in educational attainment from those who had done a sixth-form course to those who had only passed primary school.