Do we seriously want to
consider to change the education system
AGAIN?
The Straits Times recently published that there are more students
dropping out of A Levels mid-course, or failing to get through to
University, and subsequently opting for Polytechnic as an
alternative route to Higher Education.
The reason given was that most of these students could not cope
with the changes with the introduction of the S.A.T.S course as a
suitability test to enter University.
Each change that is implemented on an ad-hoc basis will carry such
consequences, in which time and effort is wasted, a young persons
morale and mental fiber is put to the test and hopefully a better
person is made.
Many Government Policies are made with its effects discovered too
late, and the fall-out felt over a long term.
Some of the mistaken policies admitted by the Government are:
Two Child Family which was so successfully implemented, that it
resulted in the Population not able to replace itself.
Womans Charter that protects the Woman, in dictating a One Man
One Wife Law; but created a situation in which second wives are
no longer allowed to be practiced; and resulting in a large number
of unmarried girls who are intelligent and of child bearing age
unable to pass their gene on to a new generation.
CPF contribution at 40 Percent which drew out a large sum of
money from the economy, but provides the Government with a cheap
source of long term financing.
High Cost of Home Ownership which has made Singaporeans rich in
fixed asset, but poor in disposable liquidity during Old Age, which
results in lifetime payment of unending mortgages.
High Cost of Economic Activities that is largely caused by
artificially dictated high prices in selling land parcels for
development, resulting in high property prices, resulting in high
rental rates, resulting in over rated mortgages to be committed by
the Banks, and resulting in the fact that the economy will
disintegrate if the cost for any one component is adjusted to a
lower value.
High Cost of Car Ownership the large amount of cash wasted on
C.O.E. and the high cost of Owning and Operating a Car that is
required to be scrapped at the end of the first Ten Years, or the
renewal of the C.O.E. for the car to be used until the end of its
Second Ten Year Period; which result in a large enforced
expenditure of disposable income to an average Singaporean Family
that is burdened by home mortgages and other financing costs, which
make the Singaporean Individual dependent entirely on the
Government for its continued economic survival.
The above are some of the recognized and admitted Government
Policies that have immediate and admitted impact, which resulted in
some Government fine-tuning.
However, there remain some Government Policies that the Government
has refused to acknowledge, and carry with it the long-term danger
of negative impact:
GRC Election System that assured the admission into Parliament of
weak candidates that the Ruling Party think is suitable to be
groomed as a Political Leader for the Community. In so doing, it
deprived an equally or better Opposition Candidates from
representing their constituents.
Privatization of Government Linked Companies that merely result
in the changing of ownership from a direct Ownership by Temasek
Holdings, to a Private Named Company whose capital is set up by
the Government Investment Corporation.
The accountability of Singapores National Reserves in the Hands of
the Ruling Party, that remains unaccountable even to an Elected
Presidency.
A system of Government that is governed by Political Appointees,
that can leave the Country in a limbo, in the event of a popularly
elected Opposition Party coming into Power as had happened in
Taiwan, when the Kuomintang was thrown out of office and the
opposition DPP was popularly voted to rule Taiwan but its
effectiveness was hampered by the Kuomintang Political Appointees
that ran the various Government Agencies and Civil Services.
