Friday, March 30, 2012

Importance of Expectations

Read this article about the flaws in the education system in Singapore
http://singaporemind.blogspot.com/2012/03/importance-of-expectations-in-education.html

I prefer the egalitarian system used in Finland. It is nice to have an environment where students help each other to learn, rather than compete against each other. 

1 comment:

Weng Mao Fa said...

I was one of those stupid student at Ngee Ann College (now NAPoly) in 1976. My maths lecturer chased me out of his class after I can not answer his maths question. I had not done my homework as I had to work part-time after class room. My father was a TB patient with 5 children. After the incident, I cry all the way to a nearby temple to take refuge.

In early-1970s at Holy Innocents High School, I had my Chinese langauge teacher and Additional Maths teacher who came from Penang (Malaysia). They were very humble and hardly see them angry.

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