apparently, she's a member of the tatler set .... I'm
loving it ! ... 
hey fudgie ....
take a load of this .. .... a couple of chaps are engaged in a cock
fight in the original thread over this, so I guess I'll reproduce
it here ...
Village Graduates
I have been engaging a half-educated person in a semblance of
intellectual debate under the comment pages of "A Good Christian
Girl" and "A Refutation of Sorts".
As everyone knows, I did not go to a local university; whenever I
come into contact with a local graduate, their intellectual paucity
always astounds me .
The worse people to debate with are the badly educated. The
uneducated are easy to dismiss. The well-educated are a joy to
debate with, even if sometimes disagreements can get quite heated -
you nevertheless go away mentally stimulated and satisfied. The
badly educated on the other hand (like this person who more or less
admitted to be an NUS Arts and Social Science graduate) are painful
to debate with.
These people have read the right books, memorised the right key
words and phrases, but have no real understanding of the issues.
Worse, they lack to intellect to analyse these topics properly. In
these cases, what happens is that you get verbal diarrhoea spewed
at you and you don't even know where to begin to argue back,
because even though all the paragraphs are correctly stringed
together, the sentences are grammatical, the spelling is almost
always right, the right names and phrases are dropped, BUT the
person does not make any sense. This leaves you intellectually
frustrated because unlike uneducated people, you have to unteach
before you teach. It's like a gadfly, albeit without the
intelligence of Socrates, which you have to swat away, because this
person talks your language ostensibly, and you feel a compulsion to
correct her.
The local universities cannot be good until the government stops
sending the brightest overseas on scholarships; however, the local
universities will fail to attract them until they can draw the best
thinkers and dons on all levels, rather than second-rate teachers
from India and China. It is a vicious cycle and until this cycle is
broken, local university undergraduates (with the exception of Law
and Medicine) will always be second-rate, so much so that some
foreign (mainland Chinese) undergraduates have said that
Singaporeans are stupid. If their experience is only at the local
universities, it is no wonder they say that, since our most
brilliant have all gone overseas to Oxbridge and the Ivies,
Stanford or MIT. What these mainland Chinese have not experienced
are these students who have not only gone to the best universities
in the world, but consistently top these universities. I honestly
think that the mainland Chinese and Indians who top NUS/NTU/SMU
would be easily trounced if they came up against our true best and
brightest.
Singapore needs to put more resources into universities if it wants
to be taken seriously as a First World Nation. The vicious cycle
needs to be broken somewhere - they need to hire the best
professors and get some of the brightest to stay at home. These may
lead to fewer places at the local universities so some people will
not qualify. But some people don't belong at universities - they
would probably serve society better by getting technical
proficiency at a polytechnic, then joining the workforce.
Afterall, it's better to be a non-graduate than a half-educated
village graduate.
Woooo .... I love girls with acid
tongues ...
