MCA approached to help reinstate citizenship of educationist cum social activist Lim Lian Geok

September 6, 2011 - Well known among Chinese education circles and seen to struggle for Chinese education in Malaysia, the late Lim Lian Geok (1901-1985), former Chairman of the United Chinese School Teachers’ Association Of Malaysia (popularly known as Jiao Zong), was an educationist as well as a social activist. His struggle for mother-tongue education saw his Malaysian citizenship and teaching licence revoked in 1961 due to his objection against the 1960 Rahman Talib Report which intended to abolish Chinese schools and the 1961 Education Act which required all secondary schools to teach in English or Malay.

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