The Xaverian Journey: The Story of a Lasallian School in Penang, Malaysia 1787–2019, by Francis Loh Kok Wah, Cecilia Ng and Anthony Rogers. Pulau Pinang: Southbound Sdn. Bhd., 2019, 173 pp.
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The genesis of modern schools in Malaysia can be traced to the oldest English medium school in Malaysia as well as Southeast Asia, the Penang Free School (PFS), founded in 1816, with its first Tamil class–the earliest of its kind at the same time (Sivachandralingam n.d.). The first Malay school was established in Gelugor, Penang in 1826. As for Chinese schools in Malaysia, “School of the 5th Happiness” (1819) – reputed to be the first, was followed by other pioneers of modern Chinese schools, namely The Chung Hwa Confucian School (1904) and the first secondary Chinese school, Chung Ling High School (1923), all of which were located in Penang. It is astonishing to find out that all those early English, Malay, Chinese and Tamil vernacular schools were founded and based in Penang. St. Xavier’s Institution (SXI), founded in 1852 at a “pioneer educational hub” of Penang with its origins dating to 1787 later joined their ranks, becoming the first Lasallian educational institution in Asia (p. xv).
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