-Before the Japanese Occupation, most of the British people went to English school. The language people learnt mostly depend on their race i.e. Malay people studies in Malay school and etc.
-During the Japanese Occupation, the students in Singapore learnt Japanese language in school regardless of race, religion or language. As shown from the pictorial source below, a Malay and a Indian student was writing Japanese language on the whiteboard.
-At the beginning of the Japanese Occupation, teachers in Japanese schools often gave comic books on how kind the Japanese were through a series of cartoons to students in order to influence their view that Japanese were kind-hearted and caring.
Thus, the change could be clearly seen before and during the Japanese Occupation.
Continuity:
-Before and during the Japanese Occupation, students who were studying still had to take on education. Also, students had to go to school and learn new things, gain new knowledge. They were asked to sing the National Anthem and recite the pledge every day without fail, but the language sung or said by the students were different before and during the Japanese Occupation.
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| Before the Japanese Occupation http://www.rememberingleekuanyew.sg/failover/uploads/2015/03/matriculationphoto.jpg |
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| During the Japanese Occupation http://members.shaw.ca/leksu/school-e.gif |
-Wearing school uniforms serves as a form of respect to the school and a traditional routine for every school even when there is a change in the colony of Singapore so that it will be easily recognisable on which school the students were studying at.
Thus, the continuity could be clearly seen before and during the Japanese Occupation.
(Sources were all taken from either the Internet or a History Textbook)
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