THE challenge of hazard and offort in the open air life ropresents not least a challenge to youth- to the youth of every country and every clíme. Outward Bound in its de- velopment in Britain, in Malaya, in Africa and elsewhere in the Commonwealth has dono and is doing much to inculcato a
healthy spirit of Initiative and pro- duce the manly qualities of leader. ship demanded in the citizens of
morrow.
to-
this
Nowhere is spirit of leadership more needed in Asia.
in
and perhaps nowhere it is demonstrated to better advantage than the training of boys and young men in Malaya and ini Singapore.
The Outward Bound
THE CHINA · MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1958.
SERVE TO STRING JE, KILL
"To Serve,
to Strive.
and not
to
Yield.
spirit is not confined of jerry-cans and saplings, more than 1,000 boys of to one school or awing between 40-ft. clifts different nationalities and on an aerial ropeway, climb from a number of countries
group it is to be found wherever men and organisations are willing and ready to another party of boys take an active in hacked their way through
jungle man-high
on.
under-
trees with dexterous ease in South-East Asia have to reach a rope catwalk. undertaken the 26-day On While all this went
course at the Achool. the day the school opened an official stated: "The Ma- lay of the future will need be men of character. de- leaders. These leaders must voted to the interests of the country, and they will neeil courage, confidence, initiative and perseverance. The Outward Bound School aims to develop these quali- ties in young men and make them more fitted every way to take In recent years increasing place in industry, commerce, importance has been attach the professions and all ed to youth leadership in walks of life; to make them Malaya, and especially more aware of both the op- through what might be de- portunities and responsibili On the river scribed as the "Outward ties that He before them."
terest in the building growth to survey the south of a healthy progres- west corner of Pulau sive society, whether Tekonge.
from normal burrnek tine.
rou
it be the Outward The object of these exer- cises? To test the boys' Bound School at initiative and ability to im Lumut in the Federa- provise, to take them away tion of Malaya or in the annual camps or- ganised by the Army Boys' Trade School in Singapore.
WHALEBOAT manned
Bound Spirit".
When Field Marshal Sir
A by Malayan and Gerald Templer was High
Aberdovey
80
in
their
Chinese youngaters of the Commissioner in the Feder- THE school, whose motto is
"To serve, to strive and
Army Boys' Trade School ation of Malaya he never came out to meet our motor ceased to emphasise the not to yiekl," has accommo launch BR we approached importance of developing dation for Go boys at one Pulau Tekong, rocky, initiative in the youth of time. It is open to all be- diamond-shaped island half the country. In May, 1965,
mile off the Malayan cost with the support of Malaya's tween 15 and 25 years
in the Straits of Johore.
"A nice way to spend sunny morning,"
mented one of our party Like others of us, he
a
of
TRAINING ASIA'S
LEADERS
on
connection between the two organisationa: Two hundred Inds who are studying electrical, mechani- the school attended cal and clerical trades cent camp at Pulau Tekong.
at
B re-
Blue Funnel Line. There Every minute of the is no are now mountain schools day 19 a testing time. at Eskdale and at Ullswater At dawn they put in the Lake District, and swimming trunka adi sea schools at the original sprint to the beach for school at Aberdovey, and at pre-breakfast dip. follower Burghead in Scotland. Іп
a couple of circuita on addition there are two Out- by ward Bound Schools in a hard. earth training When I visited the island Africa, while Australia in track. Then come showers, they had been there eight plaming to start its first parade, and breakfast. days, long enough to rub school,
The youngsters set tables the edge off their outdoor in the dining hall, serve, existence and for them to As laid down from the wash up, make beds, clean begin to really enjoy it. beginning, these schools, dormitorien. The rest of To reach an aerial ropeway
Lads of the Army Boys' Trade School are taught how to construct a raft of
suplings between two boats,
4
bin
age, regardless of race or (which in Jending businessmen,
Britain are the day, with an hour's strung between two cliff's I an religion. Outboard Bound School was
managed by a Trust whose break for lunch, is taken up hind to sail round a ́hond-
s started at Lumut in the The first Outward Bound putron
the Duke of by life-saving exercises, land in what was described com state of Perak.
instruction Sited in School was established at Edinburgh) provide courses canoeing,
01 #13 [ Beaworthy folding. ideal surroundings along a Aberdovey on the coast of for boys from all walks knots, splicing and the use boat.
The skipper was stretch of golden sands on North Wales in 1941 by of life but mainly for young of a compass, and sports, 16-year-old Mohamed Yusoff Royed the youths were sail the north-west coast
thefr of Kurt Hahn, the distinguish employees sent at
Idris from Negri ing purely for pleasure.
The At the Malaya, the school recently ed German youth worker, employers' expense.
boginning of Sembilan in the Federation We were very
soon put celebrated its second anni and then headmaster of idea is that the boys live every month, between 20 of Malaya who has been at are and 30 boys start arriv- the school 18 months. "In- right about that. During versary.
Gordonstoun (the Duke of as a community and hours we four
They have
school), given the opportunity to ing at Lumut. The majority Out - In - Out." called Mo- been two Edinburgh's old
and develop their have only a bare idea of humed the nЯBesa then build rafts fruitful years during which and Lawrence Holt of
Yusoff to the qualities of courage, on what Outward Bound means adolescent oarsmen.
They durance, initiative and but when the course ends handled the craft skilfully. self-discipline in learning they are devotees. They
the next
watched
Lads of the Army Boys' Trade School put to son with a raft of suplings suspended. between two boats. They were taught bow to build and launch cafts during their "camp at Pulšu Takonfig":
the techniques of sailing er are unanimous in their A raft Туда also being of rock-climbing, by various decision-"It's tough, but physical tests, and in ex- we like it."
peditions over rough hill country lasting several
days, Similar but modified
courses for girls in Britain
On the sea
are held at Bisham Abbey, ONE of the school's great- in Berkshire, and at moun- tain centres.
taken round the headland and on an aerial ropeway 16 year old Ayoub bin Mohamed Som, of Malacca, swung into space above the bay.
of
est assets is a 50-ton Captain W. Lynam, ketch. The boys are the Royal Army Education given instruction in seaman- Corps, my guide at Pulau The Outward Bound ship and navigation often Tekong, told me how groups School at Lumut in Malaya pending three or four days of the boys are sent to a at Res off the Malayan satellite camp which they is based on the same prin- coast. Another highlight run entirely on their own ciples as the British schools. of the course is the in- initiative. "The boys are The training is tough but struction they receive in responsible for everything," it is so balanced that it does compass and chart reading, right down to rations," he not demand more from any On every course the school said. "Ofears and N.C.O's boy then he is capable of moves off from Lumut in step in only when the boys parties of three to trek to are obviously doing somo. giving. It includes athletics, a certain destination using thing the wrong way." Ben and land expeditions, only compass and chart. life-saving in various forms. periods of service to the community by active co operation in public activi- ties, lectures, debates and discussions.
Major M. J. Andrews, the So keen are those who officer commanding the have been on the course to camp, commented: "Annual keep alive the spirit of the camp is an loen well worth school that in Kuala Lum- continuing. The boys, are. pur 60 former students of organised in school houses Outward Bound have form- and there is keen competi- ed their own old boya' isso- tion between them. ciation.
"The camps take them
During the course the boya live in dormitories. They elect their.. · own The annual camp or- right away from......... their
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