The Importance Of The Success Of Singapore's Success

From a poor and small island with few natural resources to a prosperous and developed nation, Singapore has spent fifty years developing every aspect to become a successful nation since its independence in 1965. The government has made policies to develop economy, formed army to ensure the security of the nation, built school for education and also took actions for other aspects. However, among all the factors that contribute to Singapore’s success, the sustained economic growth and the presence of a strong military play a significant role. In my opinion, I agree that the economy and the military are two fundamental factors for the success of a nation and will continue to be the fundamental of Singapore's future success. Without the sustained

However, I do not think that they are the only two fundamental factors, because education is also an important factor that will influence the future success of Singapore nation.

Economy is one of the fundamental factors of the success of Singapore. It is obvious that economy can benefit people’s life, but the reason why Singapore government needs to pay more attention to economy is not only because of this. Since the growing of economy is a symbol of the quality of people’s life (Noel, 2012), the successful economic development can satisfy Singaporeans’ housing demand to a large extent, and it can also provide an adequately strong economic position for the Singapore government to undertake various financial development projects (Yuen, 2008). Moreover, Singapore is a newborn country with a number of vulnerabilities in the third world at the moment of independence, it is necessary to develop economy first to get out of this condition. Consequently, the more developed the economy is, the stronger the nation would be on the international stage, thus the better

This is because education can produce highly educated talents, which is also called human capital, and without these talents, a nation cannot be innovative and progressive, and also would not have rapid development. Moreover, education, as the motive power of human capital, is also a primal factor to the growing of economy. If the workers in a factory have not received education, they would just be able to some simple or basic works, thus there might be few or even no person to do the jobs that need to come up with new plans or projects, which means that it is difficult for the faculty to get huge profits. While economy is in tight relationship with education, it cannot be ignored that education is also important to other aspects like socialization and especially in the Singapore identity development (Goh and Gopinathan, 2006). Consequently, the government needs to pay attention to education in order for better development in long term. At the moment of Singapore's independence, the education system was also not completed, thus there were also only a small number of higher skilled workers. Then the government began to make it compulsory that all the children must receive minimal ten years education (OECD, 2010), and along with some other policies, which indeed makes sense. In 2007, Singapore’s students were among the top students in mathematics and science