jst finished watching Dead Poets Society, and im very sad now. ha.
it makes understand why other countries think that singaporean are 'dead' & uncreative. what im abt to say its jst my own opinion, if you cant accept my opinion, dont read. if you do read, its jst MY opinion.
okay, so. firstly, education in singapore. yes its good and all but students dont think for themselves. they dont think out of the box. and when they do, teachers give comments like "what are you thinking?" "what sort of work is this?" students are told to read from textbook, memorise concepts, are they ever given questions in the textbook for them to think for themselves? Exams. what exactly do they want from students? how much you can memorise? how many times you read your text, how fast you write? like what Colin said, your future, your fate, your life is based on your performance that very day. i hate that. but all of us have to go through that.
secondly, teachers who try to be nice and different from the 'normal' teachers are told not to play a fool, be serious. they get condemned for being too relax and everything. if students still get good results and they do well, whats wrong with that?
thirdly, the idea of a 'proper school' in most singaporean terms is to have exams after exams, tests after tests, assignments after another and its never ending! what do you actually get out of it? when ss first 'broke off' from the 'proper school' kinda teaching method, people always says that we study lesser or, we're not actually studying, we're jst gng in for sports. we only have muscles and no brain. but hey, for those that choose to take the O levels, dont we all take the same paper and go through the same thing? and we even get a to have more exciting experiences that you cant possibility get else where most of the times. boarding (:
"Use one word to describe your life in sports school, and why?" that was the question posted to janice during english class. her answer was "unpredictable." And yes, i totally agree with her. people doubted the acadamic standard of your school & at some point of time, i doubted it too. but at the end of it, if you manage to learn MORE things than what you would have at the 'proper school', whats so bad about it?
WHAT IS WRONG WITH BREAKING FREE FROM TRADITIONS?
WHAT IS WRONG WITH TRYING SOMETHING NEW?
finally, it brings me to the point where most singaporean think that you have to go JC, you have to get an A level cert and you have to go to uni to be successful. but let me ask this, what is wrong with going to poly and ite? what is wrong with learning PRACTICAL life skills?
HOW MUCH OF THE THINGS WE ARE LEARNING FROM THE TEXTBOOK NOW, ARE ACTUALLY APPLICABLE IN REAL LIFE?
think about it.Labels: Dead Poets Society
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