Lack of drive in Singaporean students a worry
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ksi:
It's good to inject some funny punches sometimes as you are right to point out that most times we are helplessly discussing, rationalising and sometimes it gets so heavy and I welcome the humour in good taste punches.....
Thanks, ksi. Was contemplating for PHD moms and tuition teacher dads to start :spank: :nunchuk: :nunchuk: , but seriously, it's just for laughs, no insults intended. - oh, and I missed out on Grandpa who has taken online trading as his retirement hobby...who's afraid of being out-of-job these days? Everywhere also got lobang...no need to see those CEO's face colors... -
3Boys:
Me too, do not quite agree with this.kuzco:
The education system does not take kindly to those who don't do well or fail. Miss the first strike, and you are out forever.
Like ksi, I do not agree with this.
It is people themselves who do not see any other way then the academic way. And even then they think that there is only 1 path when fact is there are many paths to be taken. Even during my time. Just a matter of one having a defeatist attitude or never say die attitude. -
Sun_2010:
He had a long discussion with them, which did not throw up any solutions.
Hmm.... typical CEOs. We have a problem. You go solve it. I go play golf.
What do these CEOs expect? They are the leaders of million dollar companies and yet none can provide even a suggestion of a solution? They expect the solution to be presented to them on a platter. What drive then do they expect to see in kids? -
Funz:
Exam-smart CEOs - the products of our education system.Sun_2010:
He had a long discussion with them, which did not throw up any solutions.
Hmm.... typical CEOs. We have a problem. You go solve it. I go play golf.
What do these CEOs expect? They are the leaders of million dollar companies and yet none can provide even a suggestion of a solution? They expect the solution to be presented to them on a platter. What drive then do they expect to see in kids? -
looking4Tutor:
Exam-smart CEOs - the products of our education system.[/quote]They are? Hm....never thought of that. Often assume that these CEOs are ē½ęčµ·å®¶ones, unless their business have been passed down by their Ah Gong or Father...guess depends on which CEOs were involved..Funz:
[quote=\"Sun_2010\"] He had a long discussion with them, which did not throw up any solutions.
Hmm.... typical CEOs. We have a problem. You go solve it. I go play golf.
What do these CEOs expect? They are the leaders of million dollar companies and yet none can provide even a suggestion of a solution? They expect the solution to be presented to them on a platter. What drive then do they expect to see in kids?
On the other hand, would the CEOs be thinking - we tell you the problem, you are the education expert, not us, so you should be the one thinking how to solve this problem - if we can tell you solutions, then we should go set up schools ourselves...international schools in overseas perhaps, so we need not go through you... :evil: -
:love: the humours in u all :rotflmao:
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anecdotes from some investment bankers :
young grads on new job to analyse the IPO performance and don't know how to calculate ex-right price of a stock, and use the financial calculator wrongly some more :mad: ....... can't even derive the answer from first principle ..... and asked from the boss : do you have a template ?.... :rotflmao: :rotflmao: template graduates :roll: :roll: -
verykiasu2010:
:rotflmao: Wow, that's even more new-age - TEMPLATES!! Next up - got Apps for that?anecdotes from some investment bankers :
young grads on new job to analyse the IPO performance and don't know how to calculate ex-right price of a stock, and use the financial calculator wrongly some more :mad: ....... can't even derive the answer from first principle ..... and asked from the boss : do you have a template ?.... :rotflmao: :rotflmao: template graduates :roll: :roll:
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On a more serious note - how did the graduates manage to graduate in the first place??? :?
Linking this to what I heard from a lecturer in a poly, the institutions these days give passes to students even though their foundations are not up to standard or it reflects badly on the lecturer/HOD. Hence by the time they got to him at the higher level, he has a hell of a time cos they hardly understood what he was talking about. :faint:
Oh yeah, now that I recollect, he also mentioned only a handful are truly self-motivated and needed no pushing... -
I find the lack of discussion in this thread very worrying.
To me, the implied message behind the whole arrticle was that many Singaporeans will not rise to senior management positions because of their attitude. That these senior positions will go to FT.
Is our aim for our children then only for them to do brilliantly well in school, but only achieve middling success in the workplace?
And if all these "high achiever" go on to staff our civil service ā¦ sigh!
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