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20.7.07
life sucks when you are engrossed in things u dun like. i totally dun like to study, but here i am wasting my life for A's. maybe i had never did so much before, i actually went buah ( a mixed feeling of bonkas, confused, blur, lost, crazy and a bit of helplessness ) today la. luckily i oni have one A level in my life, i cant imagine me repeating it. it will probably drive me crazy :( wad is the purpose of education? wiki say it is the imparting of knowledge, positive judgement and well-developed wisdom. in fact the word Education is derived from the Latin word 'Educare' which means 'to nourish' or 'to bring up'. but has singapore education reach that objective? all throughout our life we have been implanted with the concept that we need to score well to excel in life. it seems that exams result determine your path in life. from PSLE, to O level and now A level, all these are just filter to sieve out people of different capability. but who is to judge the potential of a person? u cant say a person that failed PSLE wont make it big one day. i had seen people from normal academic doing super well in junior college. and also the good results for one major exam wont clear your path and make ur future easier also. i did well for my psle and got into rv. and then did rather de bad for my O's and now currently struggling to dig out a S from my U's arsenal. having a good start doesnt guarantee success. and ironically one of the first few higher chinese phrase is " xiao shi liao liao, da wei bi jia " ( having a good result when you are young doesnt mean you will be good in the future ). it is like a sign for us, to ask us to avoid been over complacent. back to the education thingy. it seems like there has been different viewpoints about Singapore education system. in fact when we are young, we shows so much hatred for it that we complain at any slightest thing. we complain about pri 4 streaming exam and debate on why an extra higher chinese subject would set you at so called " better stream". and rmb the quarrel we had with our parents over the selection of secondary school? then it comes to secondary school, we moan on every little thing. maybe it is the rebellious period? we seek fairness in everything, from school funding to CCAs, to the teachers assigned to each class. we were so into the state of communism that we nearly demanded the change of principal. i rmb we like to accused her out corruption, which i till now still suspect. but thats only for my secondary school. maybe urs is the same? petitions, voting and recommending is the new found thing we have in secondary school. for once, it give us a choice, a feel of democracy. ( come to think of it, it's rather ironical that we wanted everything to be equal and yet want to be democratic at the same time ) we hate education then and wonder wad's the point of studying things that we probably would never apply when we grow up. why study chemistry when washing test tubes is the last thing u wanna do when you work? why study physics when you never want to associate yourself with newton's laws next time when you work? ( on a sidenote, unless ur workplace is a newton ) we question the purpose of things and spent most of our time back then thinking of how to outsmart the education system. but then as we grow older, we seems to realised that actually most things in life is out of your control. that's nothing we can do but to go along with the flow. you cant say u dun want to take A level and then just run out of your school ( actually u can, but only at ACSIB ) we are just a small counterpart in this huge engine call society. no matter how much we dislike or detest something, you cant change the direction of the engine. maturity in a certain sense refer to people giving up the struggle to change his life, giving up the fight to correct those obvious unfairness,and to forget about addressing the unjust of the wrongly accused. maybe that could be a reason why most of the time, strike group is mainly consist of students? maybe you think you can change the world by contributing a small part to it. but that's because you are not aware of how small that part is. no matter how impractical u think education is, u still have to take it. and if u really dun like the idea of studying irrevelant subjects in school now, you can consider going poly to undergo vocational training. but then bear in mind that in poly, you still will have to learn skills that u deem useless in order to complete the minimum modules. to conclude, just dun think so much and follow the path which most people had already taken. it is pointless to struggle when you are already inside this whirlpool. jiayou to all junior college year 2 students. damn, i wasted my time typing this entry :( back to notes. |