探索教育现代化的新境界——《卓越的办学方式》译者序

Searching for a New World for Modern Education:Forward to Towards Excellence ln Schools(Chinese Version)

新兴的发展中的新加坡共和国在短短的20多年的时间里,从殖民地教育体制经过中央集权制批量生产标准人才的阶段,迅速过渡到现在的充分扩大学校自主权、全面改善国民素质、培养完整人才的体制,使新加坡迅速地迈向教育现代化。其经验,很值得包括中国在内的第三世界的教育工作者认真探索。

Education,in the last twenty years,has undergone tremendous development in Si-ngapore.From the colonial system evolved the centralised systen that brought aboughtabout educational products in mass-porduction way,which in turn,has evolved rapidlyinto the present phase granting greater autonomy for schools and fostering of all-rou-und developed personnel,with a view to better the quality of all the Singaporeans.All this has considerably quickened the steps towards the modernization of Singapore'seducational undertaking.In Singapore's experience there is much for China andother Third World countries to emulate.