Education is important

"Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish, you run the risk of him not understanding." - Anonymous

(Some questions the feasibility of how one single fish is enough to feed a fully-grown man for one full day. Especially since fish can be anything ranging from sardines to anchovies.)

Funny I seem to be getting so many anonymous quotes nowadays. Now I really wonder who I've been getting/hearing it from.

Nevertheless, the quote being about education, I shall talk a little about education in Singapore. Not that I'm an expert on the subject, it's just that talking cock knows no boundaries and I think MOE, despite their high barriers to entry (security is important), will still be subjected to my talking cock.

Oh and statistics (which arguably counts everything but proves nothing) show that around half the people in IMH - Institute of Mental Health just in case you n00bs were wondering - are teachers. What does that show?

That TEACHERS NOWADAYS ARE WEAK!

Can't even take that little bit of stress?!

Now, now, I am always a supporter of the underdog and you must realise that the student cannot be at fault all the times. Yes, sometimes we do cause teachers to run away (my Sec 3 Chinese teacher changed like 9-10 times, wth?), but teachers nowadays are also more sensitive. Notice how they can flare up and walk out of class because we make too much noise? Doubt any teacher in the past would do that.

Some teacher also complains that IP students in JC are a bad thing, because even the lousy ones also go up and thus they cause a lot of trouble in JC (ie by not understanding, that's considered trouble to those n00bs). Hello let's see.. maybe it's not us that wanted to be subjected to this programme?! And it's really for the good of our nation, for it's MOE approved, and MOE is "moulding the future of our nation".

Thus, I suggest to the teacher who says this, that before you open your mouth and complain that the IP is doing more harm than good by giving you more difficult students to teach, you think about where your pay is coming from and what a great job MOE is doing. (Yes they are okay!)

And stop bitching because as a teacher your job is to bloody teach students of all sorts. If all students are good, then students wouldn't be students but CLONES. And you wouldn't have a job because by then all of them would be able to mug by themselves. What you need to motivate you is the lousy students. The weak ones like us who score Us all the time and suddenly when they pop up with an A you claim the credit.

Conclusion?

TEACHERS NOW ARE WEAK.

Anyway as MOE has been emphasising on multi-disciplinary education, what with contrasting subjects and all, I decided to do something special for my Maths test as well.

Yup, I've decided to bring in the principles of Chemistry as well. Check out my script:


No kidding. I handed that in but the teacher even refused to look at it. Because if you read my previous post, that was meant to be bonus question.

RJ has a lot to learn from RI.

And both of them have a lot to learn from me, seriously they could just have combined Maths and Chem lessons, teach both in 1 hour and be done with it. And perhaps somehow incorporate Econs into it, saves even more time. And uh, better yet if they can put Physics and Biology all in at one shot. Then ULTIMATE.

1 hour a day, 5 hours a week. Or okay, give them some time for lectures and tutorials - 2 hours a day, 10 hours a week. Curriculum would be short and sweet, so we have more time for CCAs and more enriching stuff. The one subject that we all take would be called "General Paper". Like literally, because it's all the subject into one.

Trust me, it's possible, because I did it for tests and tests are supposed to be a, well, gauge of your understanding. I understand two subjects and hence I whack them both. Makes sense? Even if it doesn't, I still think JCs could consider the one-subject curriculum. Revolutionary I tell you. Even the planners of RP wouldn't think of advancing education in such an innovative manner.

Yup that's my contribution to education. Next time I should really join MOE's Curriculum Planning Division (CPD) or some crap like that, after all with a knack for talking cock and being an expert in building sandcastles (as well as castles in the air) at the school sandpit and at the classrooms respectively, I can MOULD THE FUTURE OF OUR NATION.

By leading by example.

For when I talk the cock, I walk it too.

I'm looking forward to more multi-disciplinary scripts for promos.