always.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

"Uncle, how many passagers you received today?"

- ade to Taxi driver

From that question unknowingly he talk until our Singapore Education System.

He asked me 2 questions:

"Last time can you go to JC?"

and

"You from Normal Academic(NA) issint?"

I'm very frank with him and said "No" to 1st Qns and "Yes" to the 2nd Qns.

So he just passed a judging comment that "All NA students are very slow in thinking'

To some extend, i do agree

That's why we are given the time to finish O level course in 5 yrs (additional 1 yr)

He later commented that " NA students will never make it big in life"

I was thinking just because of an additional yr of education to complete the same course doesn't mean that we are going to be slow in life.

Everyone doesn't start and end at the same pace.

But what determined our life is really the attitude to continue learning

Never think that you are smart enough

Because the update of knowledge is faster than you think

We will not be able to learn ALL the knowledge in the world

EVEN with a LIFETIME...

2 years back, i was still thinking that i'm kind of smart

But to face the fact, those that think that they are smart

Are really those " Not very smart ones"

Some are even considered as "Fools"

Education system is just a plan of delivering Knowledge to different degree of people.

They are suppose to be an aid and Not a way to determine their path in life

Imagine those students that are still as young as 13.

They are still like a skinny plant with a few leaves.

How can we determined what "fruit" they are without seeing the flowers?

Most important , i think is never let your mindset be "Boxed" in any system.

What moulds us is not the system but how we receive the knowledge in the help of a system.

And lastly, never look down on ourselves to react in how others EXPECT us to react in a system.

Take for example, "Not All Normal Technical (NT) students are Ah beng or Ah Lian"

It's really how you react that will show whether you are one of the "beng"

Once i got a friend from (NT), he said:

"Aiya, people look down on NT students

Always say us "Ah Beng"....so we better stick to it"

"How sad it is to have such a 'confirmation' placed on a teenager?"


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