The Book of LKY: Yet to be written

I'm sorry but I have to disagree that MM Lee's latest book is his "most important". To date, maybe. The most important book he can write is yet to be written or at least published. I would actually put his latest effort behind his book on Hard Truths. (Not that I have read them...yet.)

If the current furore over relatively speaking, benign blog posts incidents are to serve as a guide, there is yet a Harder Truths book that need to be written. And MM Lee is the only one with the political capital, gravitas and respect that can write it and SHOULD write it.

He above anyone else should know what and where the fault lines lie in our Society. Fissures that will at some time in the future need to be addressed in the open and no one after him can safely broach such subjects without arousing distracting heated passions, thereby derailing the discussion. Future leaders with lesser credentials (basically anyone after him) would find it useful to be able to quote chapter and verse from such a book to initiate such discussions.

Steve Jobs left a roadmap for Apple to follow after his passing. MM Lee can consider such a book to be that equivalent in guiding Singapore's future SURVIVAL, at least somewhat, if only slightly, futher into the future. To avoid having to deal with the usual controversy likely to accompany such a book, he can instruct that the book will only be published when he has left the scene. It should be a
hard hitting, no punches pulled book, moderated only by justification for his views. That kind of book would be worthy of being labelled his magnum opus.

As for bilingualism, it is the parents job. Children have to grow up in an environment where both mother tongue and English is spoken. Not everyone can afford a language governess like Jim Rogers. In our current context where everything is priced 'affordably', both parents are usually out working to barely make ends meet. When you mother is not around: no mother tongue! Language learning by children is about duration of exposure. No amount of money or teaching material is going to be able to substitute for that. Our children are more likely to grow up comfortable with Tagalog and Indonesian.