Originally posted by BaruKu_9:
2 thumbs up 798 for your above replies to Kengkia and ChingAlvin
respectively!
Our educational system now has been changed until sometimes I feel
really like what Cantonese say -- Mou Ngan Tai!!
Our leaders nowadays seems like taking making $$$$$ as the very
very first priority in all areas! [b]EVEN FOR EDUCATION!!
They treat it like DOING BUSINESS! Treat students
like CUSTOMERS! I've got friends teaching in our
University, JC and schools. When I chit chat with them and talk
about this issue, all of them gave me the same feeling! Their
morale is low. They MUST serve students like surving CUSTOMERS!
Like one of our members mentioned: Student is the king! There are
all kinds of OVER-convenient feedback channels for students to
COMPLAIN their teachers. Students even are ASKED to or APPROACHED
or even come to the extent like "BEGGED" to give feedback on all
their teachers! You know what I mean? ---
Teachers nowadays are GRADED BY STUDENTS!!
I don't mean providing feedback channels is no good, we just don't
need to take it until that high profile like APPROACHING them to
give feedback and even providing questionnaire for them to just
tick tick tick! Come on, if a teacher's attitude is bad to the
extent that students can't tolerate, then do you think they won't
take action to complain, do you think they don't know how to
complain and must wait until you push questionnaire for them to
tick?!
Actions like providing them questionnaire or sort of "begging" them
to feedback will definitely give them wrong impression that
teachers are under their "CONTROL" and trying to TAKE ADVANTAGES on
their teachers!!! Simple examples like giving hints for exam,
asking for more marks when not satisfy with the marks given for
their assignment, etc., etc.! These make students TAKE MORE AND
MORE THINGS FOR GRANTED! A simple and obvious example is like what
our ChingAlvins way of thinking
we are consumer, why are we subjected to wat they deem as
inappropriate?!
Students nowadays are really OVER PAMPERED!! and
become like what Chinese say --
No Big No Small!!!
LUCKILY! It is really lucky that we still have this
compulsory National Service!
Let all those over pampered young people to go for at least 2 years
of serious and tough training!
I really think that our way of treating EDUCATION needs to
be revised!
I really hope that our NS boys will never be pampered like our
students.
I really hope that our army officers will never have to treat our
NS boys like their CUSTOMERS!!!
Otherwise ----
It will really cause a BIG DISASTER to our
nation!!!
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Whoa, whoa, relax, man. Not all students are like this;
remember, it's always the minority who give the largest negative
image.
Yes, I'm a student in a JC, and yes, I admit I have a comfortable
life. Many students have comfortable lives. However, that is not a
good reason to state that ALL students are over pampered.
The reason for the MOE adopting more liberal practices is that they
want to breed a new kind of student: one who is willing to speak up
and give ideas and comments. The more authoritarian style of
learning and teaching doesn't help in this case, because the
student is not considered; it becomes a very one-sided affair. If
the teacher is a terrible one (in part with your unhappiness with
grading teachers), then it would be worse, wouldn't it? For
creativity to be nurtured, you have to remove certain
restrictions.
An analogy would be that of an eagle. Chain it to its perch and
it'll never soar. Let it fly freely and it might attack you or do
business on your clothes. The key to it is balance between the two;
to train the raptor to be listen, but allow it to fly when it wants
to. This new plan of the MOE is obviously in the development phase,
therefore, it's not exactly working out the way we want it
to.
Of course, respect still has to be kept. I do my part by greeting
any teachers I see, and paying attention in class. I also remind my
friends to try and be respectful. It doesn't harm anyone in the
process anyway.
