Malacca High School In History
Financed by
public subscriptions and supplemented by a small government grant, Malacca Free
School was opened in 1826.
It offered
classes in Malay, Chinese and Portuguese but this school was purely an
English-medium.
Melaka’s
first newspaper began to circulate in 1826 and the Governor closed it down in
1829.
From the
jetty, the young Malacca High School boys would not know that Sime Darby
occupied the Dutch Building at the end of the jetty which is partly hidden by a
tree which is still standing today.
The boys
could see the museum in the Bastion House but would not know that the place was
the headquarters of the Dunlop Rubber Company.
Four years
before Malacca High School opening, a picture from the air would tell you that
Melaka was a ‘lifeless dullness’ and streets were deserted. History recorded
that the British law was introduced in 1826.
Do you know
that education is important and that was why Malacca High School was opened
though the Melaka’s population was just 38,000; ten years later in 1836.
Today’s
heritage zone, the old town of Melaka’s population was 12,687 a year after the
birth of Malacca High School. Those who are going to attend the 190th
Anniversary dinner on December the 3th this year would still remember houses
used nipah leaf and some stayed in wood house with atap roof.
Malacca
High School is a rename from The Free School in 1878 and it had faced periods
of deterioration in the past and its enrolment went down from 250 to 162 in
1899.
In the 12th
century, there was a strong demand for English education, and the first Malay
aristocrat to receive an English education was Raja Chulan.
Born in
Melaka in 1883 into a long-establisehd and westernized Baba family, Sir Tan
Cheng Lock was a High School boy.
The Malacca
Free School is the ancestor of the Malacca High School with John Henry Moor as
its founder.
Education
is one important life matter, where the Japanese also acknowledged as noted on
14 March, a month after the fall of Singapore, ordering teachers and pupils who
had fled to continue classes.
When was
the change from Malacca Free School to Malacca High School ?
A 1826
B 1878
C 1926
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