Asia spending billions on tutors: study

[daisyt]

In fact, I am not in favour of elite system but I welcome competition. Compete not because you want to win someone but compete because you want to win yourself. To prove to yourself, you can do it. I would want my child to have perfect score in attitude of learning and not in academic results.


I always believe 学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆.

Just read an article about the newly appointed CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer and she quoted \"I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.\"
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/17/tech/mayer-yahoo-career-advice/index.html?hpt=hp_c3

How many of our kids are willing to or have the courage to try something that they are not ready to do to achieve the breakethrough of oneself?

I observe how the kids choose subject combinations in higher Sec. Many (not all) tend to choose the steady steady common subjects for kiasu reason. Subjects that can act as backing for other faculties in case they fail to get in their preferred faculty. There is nothing wrong with this, just some kind of strategy if we want to call so. But this is what I feel, the lack of risk taking and focus.

The education system in Asia is too much focus on academic results and hand in hand, very naturally, tuition creeps in.

[fightingmom]

daisyt:

In fact, I am not in favour of elite system but I welcome competition. Compete not because you want to win someone but compete because you want to win yourself. To prove to yourself, you can do it. I would want my child to have perfect score in attitude of learning and not in academic results.

I always believe 学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆.

Just read an article about the newly appointed CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer and she quoted \"I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.\"
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/17/tech/mayer-yahoo-career-advice/index.html?hpt=hp_c3

How many of our kids are willing to or have the courage to try something that they are not ready to do to achieve the breakethrough of oneself?

I observe how the kids choose subject combinations in higher Sec. Many (not all) tend to choose the steady steady common subjects for kiasu reason. Subjects that can act as backing for other faculties in case they fail to get in their preferred faculty. There is nothing wrong with this, just some kind of strategy if we want to call so. But this is what I feel, the lack of risk taking and focus.

The education system in Asia is too much focus on academic results and hand in hand, very naturally, tuition creeps in.

:thankyou: for sharing. And i really like what you mentioned in highlighted.

[verykiasu2010]

BeContented:

U reali absolutely sure that's all u gonna say ..... For now? :evil:

that \"now\" is oredi over

[limlim]

verykiasu2010:

BeContented:

U reali absolutely sure that's all u gonna say ..... For now? :evil:

that \"now\" is oredi over

Thanks for the green light..... :evil:

[BeContented]

limlim:

verykiasu2010:

[quote=\"BeContented\"]

U reali absolutely sure that's all u gonna say ..... For now? :evil:

that \"now\" is oredi over

Thanks for the green light..... :evil:[/quote]But seriously, to keep seeing u soooo often, sometimes it's like
'ayeeee? how come limlim so quiet :rotflmao: '

[corneyAmber]

Wah..nice to see people endorsing each other and missing each other here... Way to go man! Ooops! I am not calling for you hor... Way2Go...borrow your nick only.

[worrisome_dad]

@limlim., I agreed on the regulation to sift out the unqualified tutors as it is so easy to be a tutor without any qualifications. However, I disagreed that tuition in the form of enrichment should be banned. That is the discretion & choice of the parents to decide based on the needs of the child. I am doubtful that some discerning parents with kids like me, have gone through the local MOE curriculum system, and having to juggle our kid’s school work with our busy professional life would take to your views. Playing the devil’s advocate: IF Tuition is banned, I am all for it. However, I would propose all elitist schools to be banned too and they should be slowly merged with the neighborhood school "to be more inclusive with disregard for the disparity in grades or learning abilities" so to speak. I don’t even think there should be a band 1, 2 or 3 to start. All these should be banned if we believe the standrad prescription should apply to all!

[verykiasu2010]

worrisome_dad:

@limlim., I agreed on the regulation to sift out the unqualified tutors as it is so easy to be a tutor without any qualifications. However, I disagreed that tuition in the form of enrichment should be banned. That is the discretion & choice of the parents to decide based on the needs of the child. I am doubtful that some discerning parents with kids like me, have gone through the local MOE curriculum system, and having to juggle our kid’s school work with our busy professional life would take to your views. Playing the devil’s advocate: IF Tuition is banned, I am all for it. However, I would propose all elitist schools to be banned too and they should be slowly merged with the neighborhood school \"to be more inclusive with disregard for the disparity in grades or learning abilities\" so to speak. I don’t even think there should be a band 1, 2 or 3 to start. All these should be banned if we believe the standrad prescription should apply to all!

by extension of your thought, NUS and SMU should be dissolved too and merged with some malaysian uni and oxford cambridge MIT harvard standford yell nyu etc :rotflmao:

[wonderm]

limlim:

But those who only take in certain students who met \"minimum requirement\".. are really \"unhealthy\" to society, I feel.

This is not the first time I heard of this view in this forum. I wonder what people think of top Sec schools/universities setting admission standard. Should they also accept students of different abilities?

[Imami]

janet_lee88:

Lilac66:

Why will the teachers want to give such an assignment in the first place? :roll: Unless it's done only in the classroom, they're never going to have a real gauge of the children's standards, parents' standards maybe. And the teachers know it.


If the schools continue to adopt such a practice of \"upping the standard\" unrealistically, it's going to create undue stress to kids and parents alike. No wonder parents have this misconception that P1 preparatory classes are necessary.

Plain crazy and ridiculous to get kids to do it. Parents will freak out...parents of kids going to P1 will also freak. What's the purpose of doing this kind of assignment? Even if teacher had explained it to class, how can 6 year olds remember?

ah... Janet, my four year old was recently given such assignment. You go to Limlim's primary 1 assignment thread to read about my child's assignment...