Mr S Rajaratnam & Dr Goh Keng Swee
Mr Lim Kim San
Mr Ong Pang Boon
Mr Othman Wok
Mr Toh Chin Chye
Mr Eddie Barker
Mr David Marshall
without them, there won't be Singapore


Designed by: Ahting




June 2010



From all those research I've made, I really can see the things the founding fathers have done to Singapore.
They left such a big impact to the people around them
If we could take a look at what Singapore is today, I am sure we would tell ourselves that it really has changed, alot.


"In your opinion, who contribute more to Singapore’s progress, explain your answer.”


Well, I am not from Singapore hence, I can only count on the internet to give me information about them.

From my own opinion, I think Mr S Rajaratnam & Dr Goh Keng Swee contributed equally to Singapore's progress
All of the founding fathers and the government worked hand in hand to help Singapore.
They did their part.


Both have different opinions and they did different things but only have one goal, which is to bring a better future for the people in Singapore.
Dr Goh was responsible for projects that sought to improve on Singapore's cultural and leisure such as Jurong Bird Park and The Singapore Zoo.
Look at what it is now, it became a tourist attraction.


Mr SR penned down the National Pledge against the racial riots.
Students will recite the pledge every morning before having lessons.
it wasn't created for fun, if we take a look at the National Pledge, we can see that it's a message for all of us.
it was written to inculcate in all Singaporeans his vision of building one united Singapore regardless of race, language or religion.

If Dr Goh didn't exist, would tourist still come to Singapore to settle down?

If Mr SR didn't exist, would Singapore be peaceful as how it is today?

Each and every person are special in their own ways.

There isn't such thing as 'I would not care about *insertname* because *insertanothername* contributed more.
Each and every of them contributed enough to make Singapore a better place.
Without either one of them, there would be something missing, it will not be complete.
It all began with them.
Without them, there's no Singapore.

Dr Goh Keng Swee

He was born in Malacca in the Strats Settlements on 6 October 1918 into a middle-income Peranakan family and was also the fifth of six children. His father, Goh Leng Inn, was a manager of a rubber plantation, while his mother, Tan Swee Eng , was from the family that produced the Malaysian politicians.

He was given the Christian name Robert, which he disliked and refused to respond to.

His family moved from Malacca to Singapore where his maternal grandparents owned several properties. They then relocated to the Pasir Panjang rubber estate when his father found worked there and became a manager in 1933. They spoke both English and Malay at home.

After studying at the Anglo-Chinese Primary School and the Anglo-Chinese Secondary School between 1927 and 1936 where he was second in his class in the Senior Cambridge Examinations, he went on to graduate from Raffles College in 1939 with a Class II Diploma in Arts with a special distinction in economics.

He then joined the colonial Civil Service as a tax collector with the War Tax Department but, according to his superiors, was not very good at his job and was almost fired. Shortly after the start of WWII, he joined the Singapore Volunteer Corps, a local militia, but returned to his previous work after the fall of Singapore. He then married Alice Woon, a secretary who was a colleague in 1942 and they had their only child, Goh Kian Chee, two years later.

They moved to Malacca in 1945 but returned to Singapore the following year after the Japanese Occupation ended. That year, he joined the Department of Social Welfare, and was active in post-war administration. He then became supervisor of the Department’s Research Section six months later.

He won a scholarship which enabled him to further his studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He graduated with first class honours in economics in 1951 and won the William Farr Prize for achieving the highest marks in statistics. Upon his return to the Department of Social Wefare, he was appointed as the assistant secretary of its Research Section.

In 1954, Goh was able to return to LSE for doctoral studies with the help of a University of London scholarship. He completed his Ph.D. in Economics in 1956 and returned to the Department of Social Welfare, where he served as Assistant Director and then Director. In 1958 he was made Director of the Social and Economic Research Division in the Chief Minister's Office. He resigned from the civil service in August that year to work full-time for the People's Action Party