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好校长 by 潘星华
出自早报现在2009年6月13日 (http://www.zaobao.com/fk/fk090613_504.shtml)
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小依：
做新闻记者跑教育线超过20年，和我工作最密切的是各校校长，从小学到大学，不少，已经成了好朋友。
华人常说：“不怕不识货，只怕货比货。”西方人又说：“要橙和橙比，苹果和苹果比，不能橙和苹果比。”做新加坡人最好，东西文化交融兼备；做记者更好，有无数人可以比，有无数校长可以比。而且，因为长期在教育线，“路遥知马力，日久见人心”，我可以有很长的时间去看一位校长，凡我认为是好校长的，一般不会看走眼。因为，他们是经过无数比较后，而且是同类比较，被证明是最好的。
去年在“华校校史联合展”的活动“校长论坛”上面演讲的五位校长：圣尼各拉女校前校长李宝丝、华侨中学前校长杜辉生、南洋初级学院院长郭毓川、道南学校校长陈俊敬、德明政府中学校长孙振炜，都在我的校长名单，名列前茅。
过去几天，我在为八方文化创作室把五位校长在校长论坛上的讲话，结为一本名为《华校发展的回顾与前瞻》的书，做文字润饰和校对工作。他们的讲话，让优秀校长的身影，再一次跳到我的眼前。
其中，杜辉生校长与孙振炜校长的“交锋”，尤其令我难忘。
杜辉生是率领华侨中学从上世纪七十年代的风雨飘摇到九十年代能与莱佛士书院平起平坐的英雄。他对一代华校生把自己不如意的日子，归咎于华文的态度，不敢苟同。他说：“我们要感恩。如果今天办得火火红红的特选学校，没有当年那个局势，那样的处境，如果一切都是一帆风顺的话，我们没有今天。”
他因此对华中的未来有所期待。他公开要求德明政府中学的孙振炜校长“加把劲”，给华中一点压力，“让华中不断提升，创造双赢的局面”。
孙振炜虽然年轻（38岁），面对前辈（70岁）的挑战，极有技巧。
他说：“北京奥运会前，我去中国，看到一个很大的广告牌。画面是一个非洲籍的短跑选手，上面写着英文标语。我对这个广告标语为什么用英文写，感到奇怪。在中国看到的英文广告，通常错别字蛮多，但是那个没有。那个广告标语说“The person to beat is not the one in front but the one inside.” “要超越的人不在前面，而是在里面”。这正是德明办学的理念。如果有一天，我们真的超越华中，那是我们努力的结果，但不是我们努力的目的。”
社会景象，经常让孙振炜感觉“在繁华中感到空虚，在朴实中觉得幸福”。他说：“身为德明校长，我认为学校不需要越办越大，越办越堂皇，可是必须越办越好，越办越温馨，越办越像一个家。”
他用这样的话，回应杜辉生的期待。什么是好校长？这就是！
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this is the reason why i will always be proud of my alma mater. (:
and in retrospect, God really did have a plan when He didn’t send me to rgs. simply because, i know i will always be a dunmanian at [...]
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on being a chorister
lin and i had a really good chat today after not meeting up for the longest longest time.
of course, we had to talk about girly things like shopping, good coffee (brother baba budan has raised the standards of melbourne coffee) and then go on to rave on and on about our singing lessons, the various [...]
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You are holy, give You glory
last night was the first time in 2 weeks i didn’t have strange and eccentric dreams, although i did dream about a whole bunch of collegesquare people ordering in jap food from the fitzroy place (because they dropped fliers into our mailboxes). hahaha.
so i’m at frank tate attempting to shave some words off the 5000 [...]
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that would all be nothing
You and i walk beside each other day after day
thank you for always being there.
i can only get through this with You. (:
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there are just some things
sometimes i like to think that in life, God sews invisible strings into the lives on different people or things, enabling them to have some sort of connection no matter what happens.
there are some people in my life i really thank God for. you know who you are (: you guys are unbelievably awesome, putting [...]
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if You didn’t love me
if i could have the world and all that money could buy
and i could travel far beyond the moon and the sky
if they gave me golden wings,
well, i still couldn’t fly
without You, nothing would matter
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to you.
today, i finally understood.
i was always meant to let you go. (:
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we believe in this love
last night, as i held the Bible in my hands and truly asked God what’s going on in the mess of my heart/brain, He gave me the answer.
it’s so simple, yet i missed it all along.
there’s a story in this book called letters to sam, and it goes somewhat like this: a little boy was [...]
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i’ve missed the blogosphere.
there’s just something uncanny about not journaling (and believe me, i prefer putting pen to paper) but instead seeing your fingers type away, then producing a piece of writing you don’t think you were ever capable of coming up with.
but anyway, enough about my writing.
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the other night, brenda asked me an interesting [...]
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