While the education system can produce excellent
engineers and scientists, can the same be said of raising potential
leaders who are sensitive to societys needs?
They lend weight to an observation by some foreigners
that the new generation of Singaporeans is arrogant and
self-centred.
What superiority in English? Most Singaporeans cannot speak
properly, in terms of sentence structure and the way they speak.
E.g. Cha: So what kind of books do you read?
Local from SAJC: Like tat lorrrr....
Cha: oooooooookaay
[quote]a lot of people from so called "under achieving"
schools have a fixed mind set that those from "over achieving"
schools would definately be snobs. as such, would not even bother
to get to know person.
When I completed my O level prelims, i was a 25 pointer. I went
to a pre-university, which is not as glamourous as a JC. Whatever
few friends I did have, 1 english educated Chinese middle class
guy, 1 2nd generation Eurasian guy, looked down on me because they
went into JCs, Meridian and SAJC respectively. These 2 'friends'
did not return my calls, and they ignored me and did not accept me
as readily as they usually did. After the real olevles came out, i
was a 10 pointer, they scored 12 and 15 respectively. Suddenly they
started accepting me again. Something is seriously wrong with your
society.
[quote]it also goes to show how shallow the mindset of
Raffles students can be. marrying someone just because he/she is
smart,handsome/beautiful,earns loads of money or social status is
so superficial of them. students from top schools who have this
mindset obviously do not deserve the title of being in/graduating
from the so-called "elite" schools. they are nothing more than just
superficial empty vessels which can be easily taught by another
school. in fact, they dont even need to go to school. Why
should we stop at bashing Raffles JC? Every SINGLE school in
Singapore is at fault for "educating" the average Singaporean in
this depraved way, the MOE is also at fault for organising the
system so. ALl this shit stems from the annual school rankings, you
have top 10, top 50, top 100 etc etc. The mindset of students being
pompous, arises from such rankings. Last year Raffles may have been
the best, followed by ACJC, then by Hua Chong, Chinese high etc
etc, as you go down the list, you will see an air of superiority
one school has for another, like a giant food chain cycle. With one
supreme School at the top, e.g. Raffles... by the time you reach
the 178th or 192th placing (however long it is), you may have "Chee
Chiong Fun Junior College" students feeling superior to "Serangoon
JC" because Chee Chiong Fun JC is 110th place and Serangoon is
111th place. (These are just examples).
However much I bash your system, i cannot offer a definitve
solution to it. Perhaps more CME? But your culture has not much
interest in it anyway, its a studying culture, a competitive one,
one which only sticks to your own kind, not wanting to mix with
others, expecially foreigners. But I believe, however flawed the
culture is, it needs TIME, for a start, the system has to be less
stressful, so that people will have time to develop empathy. E.g.
IF you are in a hurry for work, you may be uncivil to people, and
not really care because you are in a hurry. Likewise for school
work, likewise for school ranking and uncivility in general. Its
all connected. For people to rectify their faults, time is needed,
you will never have time if things continue to be so hectic. But
then again, you will never let things run smoothly or slowly,
because otherwise your competitiveness will fall, thus you must
continue this cycle, afterall, its the people who suffer, not the
policy makers.
