Director of the SMU Office of Student Life (OSL) Bervyn Lee, a steering committee member of the Committee to Strengthen National Service (CSNS) explained that NS is about service to your countrymen so it is important not to let self-centred behaviour take root in Singaporean children. [Together with the team at OSL and former Director of OSL Bernadette Toh,] He developed SMU LifeLessons, a character-building programme which aims to mould students to be their best – for others. “Even within SMU, we are perpetuating the idea that your education means absolutely nothing if you don’t make the world a better place first. Whatever you do, remember it is not just about yourselves.”