Education

• Jun 13, 2026
• Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom

Bernardo Machiavelli Taught His Son to Take Nothing on Authority

Book: Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli’s Lifelong Quest for Freedom Author: Erica Benner ISBN: 978-0-393-60972-1

While young Niccolò grows up, Bernardo splits his weeks between tenant troubles in Sant’ Andrea and a desk piled with Roman history. He is writing an alphabetical index of names for Livy. Agis, Camillus, Hannibal, Scipio, Tarquinius, Romulus. Years later the son will make some of those names live again, often with a twist that unsettles the usual heroes-and-villains story.

• Jan 31, 2020
• 50 Years of Singapore and the United Nations

Sharing Singapore's Education Success With Africa

It started with a casual conversation about textbooks. It ended with 115 African policymakers visiting Singapore, a major conference in Tunisia, and four published books. That is how knowledge sharing works when the right people get involved.

• Jun 13, 2019
• Singapore-China Relations: 50 Years

Chapter 11: Chinese Studies in Singapore - How a Tiny Country Watches a Giant

Chapter 11, written by John Wong and Lim Tai Wei, tells the story of how Singapore built serious intellectual infrastructure for studying China. Not just the language or the classics, but real-time political and economic analysis.

• Jun 10, 2019
• Singapore-China Relations: 50 Years

Chapter 8: Students and Schools - Singapore-China Educational Exchanges

Zhao Litao’s chapter on educational exchanges reads like a story about two countries slowly figuring out they need each other’s schools. Not for sentimental reasons. For very practical ones.