Singaporeans; is there something wrong with our education system? or is this just a hasty...
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Most people are just spoilt and have no particular goals in life. Not just kids. No solid aims or aspirations. Just short term impulses and unnecessary procrastination. Our education system, or overall social system, isn't that great anyway. Come to even think of it, our neighbourhood schools have a poor selection of teachers/lecturers.
But as for any society, it all starts from the individual unit - the family. Behaviours and attitudes are made in there. So I suppose it isn't wrong either to say that most of us do nothing but conform to what's laid before us - that is, the idea that the quick path to success is fixed and usually unquestioned. Then you have peeps ending up in the not so suitable environments they are in. e.g., about 25% of people in Singapore JCs? Just sayin'.
May as well bust your ass doing/learning something you actually like than wasting your life away if you don't wanna work hard enough for it.
But as for any society, it all starts from the individual unit - the family. Behaviours and attitudes are made in there. So I suppose it isn't wrong either to say that most of us do nothing but conform to what's laid before us - that is, the idea that the quick path to success is fixed and usually unquestioned. Then you have peeps ending up in the not so suitable environments they are in. e.g., about 25% of people in Singapore JCs? Just sayin'.
May as well bust your ass doing/learning something you actually like than wasting your life away if you don't wanna work hard enough for it.
In JC, I think you're pretty much screwed if you don't have a single A grade in your A' Level certificate.
In Poly, you can't go to any local university if the first digit of your GPA is 2.
If you came from ITE, it's pretty much game over.
Having said that, is it not reason enough to work hard? Just do it dammit.
In Poly, you can't go to any local university if the first digit of your GPA is 2.
If you came from ITE, it's pretty much game over.
Having said that, is it not reason enough to work hard? Just do it dammit.
That's not exactly the right way to put it. Wherever you end up it won't be a dead end. No one actually hits one unless they're completely incapable of completing simple tasks. Our society has allowed for it that as long as someone is physically healthy, there will always be a job available. If you had to put it in what you have just said, it'd just be executing a slight prejudice on people based on the form of education they have. As much as this is important, I sincerely doubt it's any cause for grieving over where an individual ends up in.
Of course, it's fairly easy to tell someone to work hard, but as we all know (or see) from the people that surround us, this is almost impossible because we've been raised in an age where we take a lot of things for granted. That and there's a lack of urgency or accountability in teens and kids nowadays. Who in the sand hell right now takes whatever they're doing seriously anyway. It's almost a rarity to find anyone busting their ass working hard today.