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Dr John Yam Poh Nam, Ph.D. (University of South Australia), MBA (University of Strathclyde), B. Eng, Electrical (National University of Singapore) 任保南博士 南澳大利亚大学, 斯特拉思克莱德大学, 新加坡国立大学 Council Member of The Workers' Party, Served as Inspector of Police - Singapore Police Force (1981-83)

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Heavy Price due to Aggressive MOE Streaming

The heavy price we are paying for due to agressive streaming,
ranking and branding in our schools are as follow.
After many years of exam-based rankings and streaming,
students lack the capability to understand other students
who are different from them. This has a permanent ill-effect on society.
Instead of having brighter students in the same class to help
the rest, the less brighter students lack the opportunity to learn
from among the best of their peers and often face discrimination.
Due to the ranking system, parents and education professionals
are so obsessed in getting good grades that moral values
declined in the priority order. News like this is becoming common:
"Elite ACS students behave like ruffians by creating din and spewing vulgarities on bus.”
The youths these days are aggressive ( I mentioned earlier on rugby match gang fight)
unmotivated, laid-back and self-centred. The street gangs attacks that caused one life at the Downtown
East Pasir Ris Resort recently.
Is this system undermining our push for a more gracious,
all-inclusive and caring society? Is every individual given
an equal playing field to excel? Give every student true equal
opportunities to achieve good results and an inclusive environment
to learn from and understand one another.
Compared with the youths in
Hong Kong and Taiwan , the typical Singaporean youth does not
have a sense of entrepreneurship, much less to ever aspire to
become an entrepreneur. Can this be attributed to the dominance
of civil service jobs and the presence of multi-national corporations?
The civil service takes in the most talented scholars who might not
have had the exposure to or have ventured into business.
Singapore is a country with good administrators but a society
badly in need of entrepreneurs.

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