Spoonfeed us some more.
Haven't we all been taught to 'just accept it', and that 'well that's the way things work' throughout the course of our education?
We don't understand why something works in some obscure way in a subject, so we probe the teacher. Teacher tells us that:
1) it'd take a long time to learn
2) it's out of syllabus
3) he doesn't really know.
Education has been reduced to blind cramming of facts, that there's no real need to understand as long as you can memorize, there's no need for any hands-on experience in that subject as long as you're oblivious to the fact that you don't know what's really going on, etc.
You're shown stuff that you can never see on the whiteboard through primitive/elaborate drawings of the teacher, and taught concepts which you cannot apply in real life.
You get to feel good about knowing facts that don't matter in an average person's life, and you feel even better when you're given the chance to flaunt your mastery in invisible stuff when you excel in a test.
Then you laugh at the people who don't know what's going on and don't know that they're supposed to simply swallow all the facts.
What is the point of education?
I'm saying all these because I'm trying to prove my point that my, um, poor performance in the academic field is because I'm trying to, um, say that I am different from the rest and am not willing to conform!
But there's no point whining about it.
Have you realized that people in JCs normally enjoy laughing at the ITE people, labelling them as losers, people who can't study, future cleaners, etc? I had that same misconception. Today, I stand corrected.
My mum's friends came over today, and one of them had a son my age. Amongst her friends, a couple of them have a son my age, currently in ITE. He's doing well, learning all the practical stuff that could actually get him a job, and already getting job opportunities. He's doing stuff that only the best of the JC students could dream of doing. He's being involved in the society in more ways than wasting money on LAN shops and being a public enemy(not that he does that, but that the JC students do), and he helped out in the Chingay parade. Not as just a performer, I think he designed some stuff.
All that power from an ITE student. I feel quite ashamed being in the same age group as him, because I know that I pale in comparison.
JC life--is it really worth it?
-- 2/21/2010 11:25:00 PM
