After the arrival of the councillors, the opening prayer and a video presentation by the council, Mr Tay spoke about being a good leader. He said that real leaders are ordinary people, and
they must learn to respect others. He spoke of a few key points that a leader should:-let go of his ego
-first become a follower of others
-build positive relationships and values
-work to excellence
-be disciplined
Mr Simen said that all student leaders play an important role in the school to guide the rest of the students and are expected to be role models. Student leaders must know and embody the school values.
He told a short story of a mother bringing her daughter, who eats too much sweets and cannot stop her, to Mahatma Gandhi. After thinking for a while, he told them to visit him again 3 weeks later. When they came 3 week later, he simply told the young girl that eating too much sweets were bad for her and would give her tooth aches. The mother of the girl was a bit surprised, and asked "you could have told this to us the first time we came, why do tell us now?' Gandhi replied "3 weeks ago, I too had a problem of eating too much sweets, so I put myself to the test and stopped eating sweets before I could give that piece of advice."
This means that if we want to tell our schoolmates to follow certain expectations, we must be sure that we can follow these expectations ourselves.
As Zerah Goh, the former president and R. Sarav
anan, the current president said, student leaders must be servant leaders, uphold the morals and values of the school and should be initiative and strive to be a gentleman, leader, sportsman, scholar and above all a man for others.They must have team spirit to carry out their responsibilities entrusted to them.
Links: Council video presentation
Presentation of badges for Executive committee of 2008
Presentation of LOA to Sec 2 General Councillors
By Brian Theng, 2E4
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