Sometimes, I wonder why do people place soooooo much importance on EDUCATION - so much so that it seems to be THE topmost priority that overrides everything?
Maybe it's the Asian society. Or it's just that Singapore society - being totally lack of natural resources to fall back on - is just too competitive.
While it's unanimous that education IS important, but it doesn't mean that everything else is secondary.
For one, moral values.
I DON'T BELIEVE in students being forced and being drilled to master the "technique" to impeccably answer national examination questions in structurally-correct statements, and yet - at the same time - neglect values education totally. In the blind pursuit of academics.
I DON'T BELIEVE in "brainwashing" kids with the so-called "model answer", drilling them, giving hours and hours of marathon extra lessons after school and nagging at them to studystudystudystudystudy - just so that they can do well in the annual national examinations, qualify for high school, only to drop out in the end because they couldn't cope with their studies eventually.
Not everyone is musically-inclined. Not everyone can sing in perfect pitch. The same, I strongly believe, applies to academic-inclination too.
I DON'T BELIEVE in creating fireworks. Creating a one-time miracle by forcing it through, and then watching it frazzle away.
I DON'T BELIEVE in giving a man a fish. Teach him how to fish instead.
I DON'T BELIEVE education should be a one-all and end-all.
I see no point in investing in the brains, if the moral values are lacking.
I see no point in the society producing a brilliant scholar who scores straight aces and distinctions, if he grows up to embezzle company's funds one day.
I see no point in the society producing a successful doctor, if he can't even empathize with others.
I see no point in the society producing a high-flier businessman, if he deals with partners unscrupulously.
It should be moral values first. Education, second.
Maybe it's the Asian society. Or it's just that Singapore society - being totally lack of natural resources to fall back on - is just too competitive.
While it's unanimous that education IS important, but it doesn't mean that everything else is secondary.
For one, moral values.
I DON'T BELIEVE in students being forced and being drilled to master the "technique" to impeccably answer national examination questions in structurally-correct statements, and yet - at the same time - neglect values education totally. In the blind pursuit of academics.
I DON'T BELIEVE in "brainwashing" kids with the so-called "model answer", drilling them, giving hours and hours of marathon extra lessons after school and nagging at them to studystudystudystudystudy - just so that they can do well in the annual national examinations, qualify for high school, only to drop out in the end because they couldn't cope with their studies eventually.
Not everyone is musically-inclined. Not everyone can sing in perfect pitch. The same, I strongly believe, applies to academic-inclination too.
I DON'T BELIEVE in creating fireworks. Creating a one-time miracle by forcing it through, and then watching it frazzle away.
I DON'T BELIEVE in giving a man a fish. Teach him how to fish instead.
I DON'T BELIEVE education should be a one-all and end-all.
I see no point in investing in the brains, if the moral values are lacking.
I see no point in the society producing a brilliant scholar who scores straight aces and distinctions, if he grows up to embezzle company's funds one day.
I see no point in the society producing a successful doctor, if he can't even empathize with others.
I see no point in the society producing a high-flier businessman, if he deals with partners unscrupulously.
It should be moral values first. Education, second.
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