10/06/2008
Taking Singapore's education into context.
Educations main aim is to empower and enrich, if at any one time it fails to fulfill this aim, then
education has failed to educate.I think the education system over here, has
overly inflated the dream of being a 6 pointer,
or getting 4As. And honestly, many people have been consumed by this dream. At any one point if an individual does not reach this dream of theirs, they would feel like a failure. They no longer feel empowered or enriched as they failed to reach their dream. And as for those who fulfilled this dream, have they not lost themselves in the pursuit of their dream? Tell me what else have they gained besides that perfect score? How many can say they gained more than that perfect score?
Either way they are consumed by fear and result oriented mindset.
I find this extremely dismantling.
The only one who has been totally enriched and empowered, is one stepping out of education holding little regard on results, but instead how much more is he a learned man now.So now is our education still enriching and empowering?
Scintillate, Sparkle, Shine