Majority were all descendants of elites family. Who would want a descendant from coolie family to have be on the same table as the elites? It doesn’t promote groupthink
Tan SL claims to have funded his university education all by himself with an annual school fee of $3,000 by tutoring JC students in maths, biology, physics and chemistry. He earned about $1,000 per month at that time.
When a politician claims that he grew up in a forested area at the foot of a hill while almost all his classmates lived in high rise apartments in towns served by a modern rail system, he means that he grew up in a landed home in Bukit Timah Hill while his peers lived in HDB estates. LOL!