Term 3 Week 3 (Blogging Assignment)

I feel that Janalle Lim's view on Singapore's education system is surprsingly in-depth and accurate. Of the ideas that she had listed, I must say that I agree with most of them. Schools do not encourage students to speak up and ask the question "Why?" which is the fundamental question to understanding. Many times in my primary school, teachers are often unable to reply our questions or just simply cannot be bothered to reply them. Often enough saying that since the textbook says so it has to be correct. During science lesson, understanding would naturally be the most important comcept, however, our education system has made it such that memorising science facts is more important as it is the factor that makes us do well in our exams. These are some of the examples of Singapore's flawed education system. Also, I feel that our Moral and Civic lessons do not really achieve its aim to inculcate good values in students. During Primary School, teachers often use this lesson in order to make up for any lost subjects and skip it. Furthermore, the true aim of this lesson is not met as I feel that students are not taught why we are supposed to so good deeds but rather are told to do so as the society expects us to do so. As such the inqusitive nature of students is quashed as their questions are hardly answered and they no longer bother to question for it will not be answered.

In my opinion, I feel that there can never be a "perfect" education system. Every single person is born differently and everyone has special talents and weaknesses. In my opinion, I feel that the best form of education would be to segregate students into different streams such that teachers are able to teach students based on their strengths and weaknesses. By seperating students into different streams, teachers would be able to teach the students accodingly and explain to them different concepts better. Hence, I feel that while there are no such thing as the perfect education system, the best way to teach a child would be to teach him based on his merits and bad points.