well, i don't exactly feel like writing about my crappy life.
Actually i feel the education system in Singapore is shit. really.
well, i just put my own school as an example. Everyday you go to school. The teacher hardly teach, but gives tons of homework/assignments/performance tasks of all sorts. After school, it's either 3rd lang (which is managed very badly) or CCA.
Well, CCA here isn't what clubs are supposed to be. And i bet most people do not really like their CCAs. But it's just to fulfill the CCA requirement that the govt has laid down. useless rite? It just defeats the purpose of CCA. Like a subject, it is just another thing forced upon us, in another sense just another piecee of burden.
And when people get home, they are faced with lots of homework. If you are the hardworking kind, you will most likey spend most of ur free time studying, doing the work or revising. But for slackers like me, it's a constant race against work. You slack, then you have to be hardcore later. And often, this studying time eats into time reserved for other activites. i know we are students, but where's the time for games/tv/reading etc etc. There's little space for us to pursue our interest, or to just do something that we enjoy.
And what do we produce? NERDS. Yes, nerds. You look at people from RI. Other than the typical mugger, what do they do? Play games. That leaves no room for spiritual or a personal development. They don't read, or know about current affairs. TBH, rafflesians are seriously shambolic in the area of current affairs. To most of them, it is getting that 4.0 that is their formost target, then other stuff like games.
That's why there's a furor of arguments regarding A-star's scholarship criteria. They just place themselves as a target for criticism, by defending their policy that 82%of their graduates get above 3.8. wth, and they want to breed world-beaters. In my holy opinion, people who get above 3.8 are often not world beaters or will never be. No matter how intelligent they are, their only focus is to achieve that holy grade. take naichien. He probably will get a wonderful scholarship to study overseas and get 4.0. But when he is actually thrown into his career, he will be a complete noob. People like him spend their whole life studying, so they are really textbook peole. they knows absolutely nothing outside the textbook, but sadly this is the kind of people that the govt prizes.
And it becomes a vicious cycle. Ppl obviously sees the perfect grade as the easiest route to success. And they make their children studying like mad, enter Raffles/HCI, then get a scholarship. In the end, it's the people who are reaqlly enthusiastic or pro that are left neglected in the polytechnics or ITEs.
Mr Andrew Lim recently singled out a few individuals in our batch whom he deemd to have made an impact. They are Junhong (youngest musician at NUS), Junliang (in u16 soccer squad), Yinwei (quarterfinals of Campus Superstar singing competition) etc. why not people like Naichien and Liqian? Because the former are people who can balance their academic excellence with equal success in other fields. Though they aren't the best in their studies, i do think they are precisely the fruits of what the Rafflesian self-proclaimed holistic development claims to nurture. whereas the latter are the ones who excels in examinations, but devoid of imagination and creativity. Sad, but true
Actually i feel the education system in Singapore is shit. really.
well, i just put my own school as an example. Everyday you go to school. The teacher hardly teach, but gives tons of homework/assignments/performance tasks of all sorts. After school, it's either 3rd lang (which is managed very badly) or CCA.
Well, CCA here isn't what clubs are supposed to be. And i bet most people do not really like their CCAs. But it's just to fulfill the CCA requirement that the govt has laid down. useless rite? It just defeats the purpose of CCA. Like a subject, it is just another thing forced upon us, in another sense just another piecee of burden.
And when people get home, they are faced with lots of homework. If you are the hardworking kind, you will most likey spend most of ur free time studying, doing the work or revising. But for slackers like me, it's a constant race against work. You slack, then you have to be hardcore later. And often, this studying time eats into time reserved for other activites. i know we are students, but where's the time for games/tv/reading etc etc. There's little space for us to pursue our interest, or to just do something that we enjoy.
And what do we produce? NERDS. Yes, nerds. You look at people from RI. Other than the typical mugger, what do they do? Play games. That leaves no room for spiritual or a personal development. They don't read, or know about current affairs. TBH, rafflesians are seriously shambolic in the area of current affairs. To most of them, it is getting that 4.0 that is their formost target, then other stuff like games.
That's why there's a furor of arguments regarding A-star's scholarship criteria. They just place themselves as a target for criticism, by defending their policy that 82%of their graduates get above 3.8. wth, and they want to breed world-beaters. In my holy opinion, people who get above 3.8 are often not world beaters or will never be. No matter how intelligent they are, their only focus is to achieve that holy grade. take naichien. He probably will get a wonderful scholarship to study overseas and get 4.0. But when he is actually thrown into his career, he will be a complete noob. People like him spend their whole life studying, so they are really textbook peole. they knows absolutely nothing outside the textbook, but sadly this is the kind of people that the govt prizes.
And it becomes a vicious cycle. Ppl obviously sees the perfect grade as the easiest route to success. And they make their children studying like mad, enter Raffles/HCI, then get a scholarship. In the end, it's the people who are reaqlly enthusiastic or pro that are left neglected in the polytechnics or ITEs.
Mr Andrew Lim recently singled out a few individuals in our batch whom he deemd to have made an impact. They are Junhong (youngest musician at NUS), Junliang (in u16 soccer squad), Yinwei (quarterfinals of Campus Superstar singing competition) etc. why not people like Naichien and Liqian? Because the former are people who can balance their academic excellence with equal success in other fields. Though they aren't the best in their studies, i do think they are precisely the fruits of what the Rafflesian self-proclaimed holistic development claims to nurture. whereas the latter are the ones who excels in examinations, but devoid of imagination and creativity. Sad, but true
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