Education Minister Chan Chun Sing inspires and challenges our | Singapore Matters

Education Minister Chan Chun Sing inspires and challenges our students. We are confident our students will rise to the occasion.

"Every generation will have its fair share of challenges. Every generation will have crises to overcome, and this will be the same for your generation.

We just need to look back on our 57-year history to draw inspiration from what we have overcome and achieved.

In our early nation-building years in the 1960s to the 1970s, the founding generations went through Konfrontasi, the British Withdrawal East of Suez, two global oil crises and the Vietnam War to name a few.

From the 1980s to the 2000s, we underwent our most serious economic recession post-independence, the 1991 hijack of SQ117, the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997 amongst others.

And of course, in the last 20 years, we had to overcome SARS, the Global Financial Crisis and now the COVID-19 pandemic.

Each generation had their fair share of challenges, each generation innovated and emerged stronger. And indeed, "Emerging Stronger" was our rallying call through the pandemic."

- Education Minister Chan Chun Sing