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I think the education system here is excellent, but it focuses too much on books. In the end sg churns out ppl who are book smart but not street smart. They are all from the same mould, having the same interests and ideas. Nothing original or interesting because everyone learns to accept things without questioning from a young age.
What sg needs is a culture that encourages people to study and have fun, to come up with ideas and take part in some arts. Paint, dance, make music, its important to develop both sides of your brain, not just one. |
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It's too result-oriented and backed by kiasu-ism. every parent prepares their kid to get into the best primary school, and then the next level and the next after that and the list goes on.
The government should do something about the work hours here, cos it's getting so bad that parents just don't have time or energy to be more involved in their kids' development - character, values and language in their development years. What's the point of asking the population to pro-create when the system does not support the essentials of bringing up kiddie the right way.
A 5 year old angmo kid can string sentences pretty well and converse like an adult, and why can't ours? It's not that they are smarter than Asians.
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What we are lacking in is space and time to allow children to develop their own interests, creativity and personality. The way I see it, students in Singapore are being treated like crude oil to power the engine of our economy. Different types of oil are labelled and graded and then sent packing towards different engines, all of which are needed for the same thing; economic growth. It sounds cold, it really does, but it's really not that far off from reality.
I would also like other here to consider my sister's experience; she went to NUS to study biochemical engineering and earned her degree after which she took her Masters in Malaysia before receiving a scholarship to study in Karolinska Institute in Sweden, ranked 4th in the world for medical sciences. It was there that she met students who pursued bioengineering, medicine and also pharmaceutical science who, just like her, chose to pursue those fields because they LOVED those subjects and had a PASSION to research further, which she says is a marked difference from the usual Singaporean reasons like "There's good money in the field", or "Because career prospects are better" or, even worse, "Because the governments says it's the IN thing." |
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