On one hand, I found that PSLE, streaming and whatever gave
plenty of stress.
On the other hand, I found from tutoring IP students that they
can be pretty unmotivated and very much lacking in those soft
skills I mentioned.
In the end, ideally, learning should be undertaken with genuine
interest.
But with the basics of our economy being run thus, there really
is little choice but to take all of those highly technical maths
and everything seriously.
The price to pay is less obvious.
All the same, I couldn't understand why my friend who teaches at
primary school, is teaching linguistic technicalities with the
children.
Sure. Structuring the rules of the English language is a great
way to learn. But it quite probably is less relevant than practice
and honing the ability to switch between languages and styles of
speech, which can in fact be improved, by using the time to discuss
about various issues around us.
I teach H2 Economics tuition. But I have H1 students begging to
be taught, in an attempt to "learn more", and then dropping out of
my class shortly after.
Is this how we should do our exams?
