I wonder too.
But I must admit that these days students face far greater
stress also.
At least in my time, there wasn't so much emphasis on
out-of-curriculum skills.
That's for good or bad.
It really depends. For myself, I picked up those skills on my
own initiative, and with less pressure from the educational
system.
But for students today, not only is the stress on the academics
side undiminished, but now there is the added project-work
component as well.
My opinion is that we are just killing students today with the
extra workload, and instead trying to give them creativity, we are
just strangling them instead.
The root cause?
The chase for the cert of course.
How to solve that problem?
We can't! As long as we rely on the global market, we have to
follow the rat race. That's the sad reality that many critics fail
to understand.
In short, we are pretty screwed.
The consensus amongst many of my peers was that this is the
price to pay for the split from M'sia, though nobody disputes that
staying on was not a good idea either.
