The Infamous PSC Scholar

The PSC scholar who made some racist remarks in his blog attracted much attention from not only on-line forums which blasted him for his insensitive comments but also made news in last week's Sunday Times.

Poor chap! - he blamed it all on his alter-ego saying that he was not like that in real life ie life outside the net. His friends and family said the same - that this was the not the guy they knew. But who was he trying to hoodwink? Are we all such newborn babes not to know that a person tend to let loose his real feelings and thoughts while on the internet, counting on its cloak of anonymity. What was worse was that he betrayed his feelings of superiority over others in another post. Do we see shades of Hilterism here?!

Are these the kind of students being churned out by our so-called "elitist" schools (the independent schools, gifted schools, special stream pupils and whatever other segregations created by the education authorities in Singapore)? Students who only study and mix with their "kind" and who have little interactions with other student groupings. Students who need to have special events organised by the schools for them to learn about and mix with the minorities - are such one-off activities going to inculcate the right thinking? I doubt.

And frightheningly, these scholars are, one day, going to in the higher echelons of the civil service, laying down policies and making important decisions.