some thoughts about education
After going around places, I have some opinion about SG education. Not that it would be mindblowing.
The distinction I want to make is between efficient and being effective.
SG education seems to churn out efficient people, who can do great things, like solve problems and write wonderful essays. What it does not do so well, is to train people to be effective people - what to do with all these wonderful skills that they end up with.
In fact, that is all the difference there is. SG has brilliant people - no doubt about that. The question then is, where do these brilliant people go? Because these people found no avenue of being effective, they end up being baited by SG govt dangling prestigious looking packages called PSC scholarships. Or the lure of money in the finance sector. It's because we don't have a truly effective programme for education that talent is lost... When these scholars go overseas, they realise that they don't want to be efficient for the government, and conflicts arise. They want to be effective for themselves.
The difference is really subtle - and its sometimes difficult to tell them apart. The difference is really this: being effective is about knowing what you want to do and why. Unless an education can teach people how to do that, then really, everything else is moot.
The distinction I want to make is between efficient and being effective.
SG education seems to churn out efficient people, who can do great things, like solve problems and write wonderful essays. What it does not do so well, is to train people to be effective people - what to do with all these wonderful skills that they end up with.
In fact, that is all the difference there is. SG has brilliant people - no doubt about that. The question then is, where do these brilliant people go? Because these people found no avenue of being effective, they end up being baited by SG govt dangling prestigious looking packages called PSC scholarships. Or the lure of money in the finance sector. It's because we don't have a truly effective programme for education that talent is lost... When these scholars go overseas, they realise that they don't want to be efficient for the government, and conflicts arise. They want to be effective for themselves.
The difference is really subtle - and its sometimes difficult to tell them apart. The difference is really this: being effective is about knowing what you want to do and why. Unless an education can teach people how to do that, then really, everything else is moot.
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