our mission is to ensure that every individual pupil in the school can be taught and will want to be taught his down-to-earth statement meant, he emphasized, that "No one should be left to rot no one should be condemned".What impressed our business partners, however, was the high level of of this mission awareness in the school, something that he had not encountered in industry.This was due in large measure to the way that the mission had been operationalized into simple mottoes and emblems. At Queensway, for example, the motto was "Success Through Diligence," characterized by an emblem showing a spider diligently spinning its web. The emblem appeared everywhere in the school-on books, papers, badges, noticeboards, and in the ha All of the pupils we spoke to knew that it meant that if you worked hard enough and long enough you would succeed.The constant exhortation never to give up was repeated on a daily basis."If you want a good school," the Xinmin principal announced at assembly,"dont look outside. Build one here".