In 1997, the then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong Launched TSLN by calling for an educational system that would 'butter develop creative thinking skills and learning skills required for the future .... bring about a spirit of innovation, of learning by doing, of everyone, each at his own level, all the time asking how he can do his job better.' With an eye toward the future, TSLN set forth a plan for lifelong learning. These national learning goals prefaced by Goh declaring that a nation's wealth would increasingly depend on the capacity of its people to learn, change, and innovate(Goh 1997). The TSLN plan called for a fundamental review of curriculum and the assessment system. Principals were encouraged to 'think of themselves as CEO's of their schools, and manage their schools like companies-by leading people, producing results and answering to "shareholders" and "customers",and talking about service, marketing,getting results, bottom-line and vision statements' (Ng 2005,4).