NUSWhispers – Confession #14433

Eunoia JC? What a pretentious name. It might be fine for the name of a house or class, but for a school? The school should have a Singaporean- rooted name to reflect our local culture. Ditto to many schools with names which make no sense here e.g. Horizon Primary, Innova JC etc. After 50 years of nation building we still suffer from an inferiority complex that we are not as good as our colonial masters, even in naming our schools. At least NUS named its UTown colleges after indigenous tree species, like Cinnamon and Tembusu. They might not sound as Western as "St Catherine College" or "Churchill College" but they reflect our Singaporean and Southeast Asian culture.