1973- The Falcon and the Falconer                   

               A powerful symbol of the Michaelian educator  takes shape.......

Brother Vincent Corkery

 In 1973, the school commissioned a sculpture for the library. This was executed in  welded steel by Brother Joseph McNally. Inspired by the poem by W.B.Yeats, epitomises the challenges that Lasallian educators face  today. An effective teacher  must embrace the future while cherishing the past. He must be in tandem with the changing world of the young.

Here's the story behind this sculpture. Brother Joseph McNally collected rejected metal from a scrapyard in Penang. This metal largely consisted of the exhaust pipes of  cars involved in fatal crashes. In local parlance, it was "pantang" (taboo) to reuse this metal associated with death. Brother Joseph recast this metal and reshaped it into the sculpture above which symbolises the ideal teacher-student bond -based on love and shared goals.  

 Its Significance for Michaelian teachers as I see it: 

It tells us that there is no such thing as a useless child. Every child has gifts sometimes hidden from the public eye. It is the challenge to every teacher to help the child realise its hidden potential.Every child can be transformed into something beautiful "