Abraham Lincoln said ‘The best way to predict the future is to create it.’
My family came back from Vancouver, Canada, to rebuild our lives in Malaysia. Canada is indeed a land of milk and honey – their libraries are filled with unlimited number of story books a child can borrow, storytelling festivals, dramas on stage in Granville Island, and schools with student centred activities. The list goes on…..
Schools were fun, creative learning places. That was what I missed when I went around surveying the city of Kuala Lumpur for such places for my two children then. Alas, there were few and far between. Children were only given choices of learning through the rote system. Learn or else! Surely something can be done? I decided to heed Abraham‘s words – I created the future I wanted with The Language Studio.
We were the first to integrate Speech and Drama into our curriculum. Our three schools’ libraries were stocked with award winning authors books which were easily accessible to all our students. We make our students fall in love with books.
Twenty four years down the road, TLS has turned things around for hundreds of students. They came in with big smiles and some would even make sure their parents would not balik kampung (go back to visit family in smaller towns) for the festive season, before attending TLS! Adults who graduated years ago came ‘home’ to tell of their successes – TLS gave them the best times of their live growing with us. One even went on to Yale University.
Today, at TLS International, our door is open to all who dream of a quality education in IGCSE. Our ethos remain firm – a holistic world class curriculum, educating hearts and minds.
— Teresa Chen
