No wonder, in a recent TV programme, Minister of State Ow Chin Hock asked whether anything had gone wrong in our education system and what had made our one-in-a-thousand elite so indifferent to their social obligations without feeling guilty.

• 欧进福政务部长在一个电视节目上也提问，是不是我们的教育出了问题? 为什么这一小部分万里挑一的精英如此漠视自己的社会责任，并且丝毫不觉得理亏?