09/06/2020 07:07 p.m.
Yes, our education system is tough. You will realize it sooner or later that the pressure, the stress, and everything in between is as tough as it sounds like. But I will want to urge you to think in a different way, try to maximize and make the best out of the situation that you are in currently, or will be in in years to come. Learn with a purpose, learn because you want to learn more but not because you want to do well in examinations, learn because you are curious and you are dying to know all these wonderous phenomenons that are happening all around you and all around the world.
Having gone through the Singapore's education system for 12 years straight, if you want me to remember every single fact or theory that I had learned, it will be tough for me to regurgitate everything out. But that is neither a concern nor the main point, the skills that I have learned that is truly rooted deep within me is the myriad ways of thinking and the kaleidoscope of perspectives that we can choose to take to solve problems or to make big and important decisions.
I would consider it a failure for the education system if I hear that one, as young as 10 years old is studying and learning about Science just so that he/she can do well in the school papers. That is just pathetic and I just wonder where is the fun in all of it. I remember vividly that in my Science lessons back in my Primary School, we had so many Science projects and we adopted the Scientific way of thinking and looking at conclusions and outcomes. I just hope that our future generations will focus more on that instead. I hope that they don't lose the joy of learning new things, discovering new things and applying what they have learnt in school to real-life contexts and situations.
I have been saying how the education system needs to change, but does it really need to change? Or is the way people are talking about it needs to change? Or, how people are viewing it that needs to change?
