I think the education system provides too much emphasis on grades. The general attitude, puts on society, most parents and the whole educational system, if you do not score straight As and I do, that makes me a better person than you. Period. Nothing matters.
Education is not just about grades, and form the mind, the character of youth. Children imparts information system for exams, teach them how to submit questions for the exams, and then quickly forget after stepping out of the examination hall, so they can cram their minds with more for the next exam. The system teaches us not to be thinkers, but a follower. There should be more emphasis on teaching us to think, solve problems, not do something simply because "the book says so".
For example, one of my subjects in my course in Aerospace Engineering Aust, we only had 3-4 exercises in the first full semester of 15 weeks. 1 week, we were introduced to describe the problem, designing aircraft using a set of specifications for one piece of A4 paper, as well as 2 A4 paper describes the design features that focus on that and ignore doing. We put in groups of 9 -10, selected by the lecturer instead of letting us choose our own groups we know quite well because, in the industry, we can not get to choose to work with. The remaining 3 lessons we were taught nothing, rather it was used to make a presentation about our Progress (2 presentations) and the final presnentation. Lecturers from all departments and industry figures selected were on hand to listen to us to present our design and floor was open for questions from anyone after finishing with a group presentation. We had to design every aspect of the plan, from the wings, landing, tail, cockpit, the choice of the machine and pull design of CAD / CAM. None have taught us, we were told to use whatever we learned in our design prior years. Lecturers were available for questions, otherwise we are alone. Grading is done by a combination of assessing your teammates you, and the lecturers reading your final report. Nobody can see the subject taught in schools as Singapore? I do not. The friends can not I who said that Singaporeans.
Finally, the education system I think that not only teach children to be familiar, but also how good of a person. Grades are not everything. Everytime I come back to Singapore for a holiday, students from schools look so called top, like spending behavior without consideration for those around them. And this is, I fear, where the Singapore education system is failing. All too often, we are good students, but people are lousy ....
Education is not just about grades, and form the mind, the character of youth. Children imparts information system for exams, teach them how to submit questions for the exams, and then quickly forget after stepping out of the examination hall, so they can cram their minds with more for the next exam. The system teaches us not to be thinkers, but a follower. There should be more emphasis on teaching us to think, solve problems, not do something simply because "the book says so".
For example, one of my subjects in my course in Aerospace Engineering Aust, we only had 3-4 exercises in the first full semester of 15 weeks. 1 week, we were introduced to describe the problem, designing aircraft using a set of specifications for one piece of A4 paper, as well as 2 A4 paper describes the design features that focus on that and ignore doing. We put in groups of 9 -10, selected by the lecturer instead of letting us choose our own groups we know quite well because, in the industry, we can not get to choose to work with. The remaining 3 lessons we were taught nothing, rather it was used to make a presentation about our Progress (2 presentations) and the final presnentation. Lecturers from all departments and industry figures selected were on hand to listen to us to present our design and floor was open for questions from anyone after finishing with a group presentation. We had to design every aspect of the plan, from the wings, landing, tail, cockpit, the choice of the machine and pull design of CAD / CAM. None have taught us, we were told to use whatever we learned in our design prior years. Lecturers were available for questions, otherwise we are alone. Grading is done by a combination of assessing your teammates you, and the lecturers reading your final report. Nobody can see the subject taught in schools as Singapore? I do not. The friends can not I who said that Singaporeans.
Finally, the education system I think that not only teach children to be familiar, but also how good of a person. Grades are not everything. Everytime I come back to Singapore for a holiday, students from schools look so called top, like spending behavior without consideration for those around them. And this is, I fear, where the Singapore education system is failing. All too often, we are good students, but people are lousy ....
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