Read the following letter:
(1) Comment on the Janalle Lee's view on the education system in Singapore.
(2) Is an ideal education possible? Explain.
Post your 500 word response on your blog.
1) After reading the letter, I have a better view of the current education system in Singapore. I did not know anything about the education system at first and know I know much more. I am also very impressed about her analysis of the education and how she presents her view to the public. From her letter, I can tell that she focuses a lot about how education should be like and her personal opinions. She is a secondary 4 and by speaking for everyone it’s a very brave thing to do.
I feel that our education is constricted within the textbook, nowadays, schools are encouraging lessons outside the classroom but that is actually just wasting time and learning less. Our tests are set according to the textbook and if we do not learn through the textbook, we would maybe fail. I remember the last time my Science teacher brought us out on a field trip, it ended up a as a disaster. Everyone was so uncooperative and noisy that we could not learn anything much. In the end, I am sure that we all feel that we had wasted our time and learnt nothing. I agree that we have lost the ability to ask “why?” as we students think that all teachers are correct and we should not question them about their answers. Teachers can also be quite complacent and only accept his or her answers and expect their students to follow them thus I agree that we have lost the ability to ask “why?”
I find that she is a very good thinker as she analysed the pros and cons of Singapore education. However, she should compare Singapore education system to other countries' education systems. I believed that Singapore is one of the top 5 in the world. Therefore I believe that Singapore’s education is very good. I believe that education should be fun and fulfilling to ones’ curiosity and his longing to learn.
It is quite true to say that schools are feeding us with facts so that we can do well in academically. I believe that there is a better way to make us learn rather than learning it the hard way. School should provide better education tools to let students have a better way to learn. Since technology has become so advanced we should make use of it to learn. There are so much resources online for us to read but school are quite discouraged to let us use it as there are also many distractions online but if there are rules implemented such distractions can be taken away.
2) I believe an ideal education is possible. An ideal education is achievable but a perfect one is not. Although Singapore has already reached a good level of education but it is still not perfect. We still have flaws in our study plans. If we were to have a perfect level of education, all the students in Singapore would be graduates and this society would be destroyed. The society would be unbalanced. A society needs a cleaner, construction builder etc. Not everyone should be smart. There should be some labour workers. Like a Chinese saying, “Two tigers cannot live on the same mountain”. If everyone in Singapore was made to be a leader, everyone would try to boss everyone around and arguments would occur and there would be disaster. Thus, I believe that a perfect education is not a good one but an ideal one is better.
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