1923年,李光耀出生于一殷实人家,父亲为其取名光耀,希冀他日后光宗耀祖。1940年,李光耀毕业于莱佛士学院。1946年前往英国,先后在伦敦经济学院、剑桥大学深造。1950年,在伦敦中殿法学协会获得律师资格。怀着献身民族独立运动的政治抱负,他回到了新加坡,为争取新加坡自治而大声疾呼。后来英国被迫同意新加坡成立自治政府,李光耀出任自治政府总理,年仅35岁。在短短数十年的精心治理下,新加坡挤身“亚洲四小龙”之一,成为世界一流的发达国家。 In 1923, Lee Kuan Yew was born in a well-to-do people, his father named for the glory, I hope he later enlightenment ancestors. In 1940, Lee Kuan Yew graduated from Raffles College. In 1946 to the United Kingdom, successively at the London School of Economics, Cambridge University. In 1950, he was qualified as a lawyer at the Law Society of London. With the political ambition devoted to the national independence movement, he returned to Singapore and spoke out loud in an effort to secure Singapore’s self-government. Later, Britain was forced to agree to establish an autonomous government in Singapore. Lee Kuan Yew was the prime minister of the self-government, at the age of 35. In just a few decades of careful management, Singapore has become one of the “Four Little Dragons in Asia” and has become a world-class developed country.