Read the Life section today and say Jonathan Pflug was UWC’s debating coach.
Ok. I’m not sure if he was the coach of any of the other schools or if any of them had someone of his calibre but I think having Jonathan as a coach must have given UWC an edge. I have seen him debate and he is good. As in he is freaking scary good. He could convince your own mother to kill you in your sleep good (although he is a nice guy lah and probably wouldn’t want to do that to you). The force is strong in this one.
And he is a ‘product’ of our own local school system. Woot!
Ok. The chest thumping, flag waving and horn blowing ends now.
Updated:
http://singaporeelection.blogspot.com/2007/03/arena-eye-opener-about.html
You know..You can’t be sure that the older teacher played a more significant role than the debating coach who is a product of the Singaporean school system and also only 25 if I remember correctly. In any case, if one would like to take note of the existence of the above mentioned debating coach, then maybe one wouldn’t be in such despair over our education system. Think about it. An international school which is supposedly having a better education system than ours chose a product of the local system to train their team. And the team won! So maybe, the people of our system do indeed have something to offer to the world.
Guys… and girls… the sky isn’t falling.
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