New Straits Times, July 12, 2004
Training ground for discipline

SIBU, Sun. - Schools started by Catholic missionaries in Sarawak are places to get good training in discipline, Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud said today.

The sense of discipline in such schools stood out and this should be preserved for the benefit of the younger generation, he said when opening the KTS/Hua Seng Centre at the Sacred Heart Secondary School here at the three-day centenary celebrations of mission schools in the town.

Taib said students today needed a high standard of discipline as the future challenges would be more formidable. Sarawak, he said, had just achieved its first wave of prosperity.

He said the future challenges would entail new and sophisticated methods of working where, for example, information communication technology (ICT) expertise and greater automation would be the order of the day and the youth must embrace these changes to exploit the opportunities available.

He said that besides discipline, another positive legacy of the mission schools was the sense of responsibility they imbued in their students to do what was right for the society. - Bernama.

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