Les Argument ala Educatio
P1: you receive an average of about 1.73205 sets of notes every week.
P2: you have A levels this year.
P3: you also have some cca that probably allows you go home at about 7 (or later).
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C> your life is quite shitted up.
additional premise:
P4: you are able to tell me that 1.73205 in P1 is root 3.
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C2> life is quite shitted up, but youre so in tune to the rhythm of school that youre able to subconsciously make connections between what you see at a relaxed state (i.e. surfing blogs) and what you remember through religiously doing your math tutorials.
school. is the subject matter of this essay. note that in this writing i shall not be doing to school what is colloqially termed "bitching". in contrast, i shall lavishly praise school so as to raise the morale of you fellow readers.
first of all, i must say that school is a absolutely wonderful environment for all manners of activity, in which stress is an existence that never finds home.
...
(i find it really difficult to continue being hypocritical.)
(if someone has the emotional capacity to write a beautiful essay in praise of school like that, i advise you to kindly stay away from me.)
so well, let's talk about school.
miss champagne once told our gp class that she sees the j2 year as
"...like an express train. it starts off slow, because of the weight it has to carry, but when it gets started, it accelerates to frightening speeds. now, in january, the train has just begun to run. in february you'll start to experience the full magnitude of the speed."
two thoughts came to my mind upon hearing this analogy. the first, the most immediate, and strikingly instinctive thought was whether she, with credentials as an MOE approved gp teacher, described the train's motion accurately physically. i didnt know why i had to do that, but i just did. probably it was in my nature to put things into a scientific perspective. anyway, in the end, i deduced that she had not made a statement absurdly nonsensical to physics students.
the other thought, obviously, was that she was probably right about our sad lives ahead in j2. january has already been the most tiring month so far in my life as a student. if its much worse for the rest of the year, it probably spells disaster. the train might fly off its tracks and rocket into space. of course that's a metaphor.
it would be okay if students everywhere experience the same thing at some point in their lives. how can you lose out in a global phenomenon? but the fact is, apparently many students in the world are not subject to such intensity. daniel returned again to our school some days ago, and i had the chance to briefly talk to him about his australian adventures. and, as expected, he proved me right about singapore's system being tougher.
must quality education really be as demanding as what we experience now? H1, H2 and H3 are creations of the singapore education professionals. (yes, these are the very people who might live opposite your house in bukit timah driving a BMW.) why is it that people who live in similar houses in the states and who drive BMWs be so much more liberal about their education system? what accounts for this difficulty gap?
the answer probably lies in the fact that singapore is an open NIE which faces challenges on continued growth. without a strong capable mass of academically wise young adults, it is hard for singapore to overcome obstacles that loom over the future economy. more economically developed countries such as the US, have the population advantage, as well as the economy advantage. therefore they can afford to offer more relaxed educational schemes. makes sense? probably. probably not.
in any case, it amounts to one thing. go study le.
P2: you have A levels this year.
P3: you also have some cca that probably allows you go home at about 7 (or later).
------
C> your life is quite shitted up.
additional premise:
P4: you are able to tell me that 1.73205 in P1 is root 3.
------
C2> life is quite shitted up, but youre so in tune to the rhythm of school that youre able to subconsciously make connections between what you see at a relaxed state (i.e. surfing blogs) and what you remember through religiously doing your math tutorials.
school. is the subject matter of this essay. note that in this writing i shall not be doing to school what is colloqially termed "bitching". in contrast, i shall lavishly praise school so as to raise the morale of you fellow readers.
first of all, i must say that school is a absolutely wonderful environment for all manners of activity, in which stress is an existence that never finds home.
...
(i find it really difficult to continue being hypocritical.)
(if someone has the emotional capacity to write a beautiful essay in praise of school like that, i advise you to kindly stay away from me.)
so well, let's talk about school.
miss champagne once told our gp class that she sees the j2 year as
"...like an express train. it starts off slow, because of the weight it has to carry, but when it gets started, it accelerates to frightening speeds. now, in january, the train has just begun to run. in february you'll start to experience the full magnitude of the speed."
two thoughts came to my mind upon hearing this analogy. the first, the most immediate, and strikingly instinctive thought was whether she, with credentials as an MOE approved gp teacher, described the train's motion accurately physically. i didnt know why i had to do that, but i just did. probably it was in my nature to put things into a scientific perspective. anyway, in the end, i deduced that she had not made a statement absurdly nonsensical to physics students.
the other thought, obviously, was that she was probably right about our sad lives ahead in j2. january has already been the most tiring month so far in my life as a student. if its much worse for the rest of the year, it probably spells disaster. the train might fly off its tracks and rocket into space. of course that's a metaphor.
it would be okay if students everywhere experience the same thing at some point in their lives. how can you lose out in a global phenomenon? but the fact is, apparently many students in the world are not subject to such intensity. daniel returned again to our school some days ago, and i had the chance to briefly talk to him about his australian adventures. and, as expected, he proved me right about singapore's system being tougher.
must quality education really be as demanding as what we experience now? H1, H2 and H3 are creations of the singapore education professionals. (yes, these are the very people who might live opposite your house in bukit timah driving a BMW.) why is it that people who live in similar houses in the states and who drive BMWs be so much more liberal about their education system? what accounts for this difficulty gap?
the answer probably lies in the fact that singapore is an open NIE which faces challenges on continued growth. without a strong capable mass of academically wise young adults, it is hard for singapore to overcome obstacles that loom over the future economy. more economically developed countries such as the US, have the population advantage, as well as the economy advantage. therefore they can afford to offer more relaxed educational schemes. makes sense? probably. probably not.
in any case, it amounts to one thing. go study le.
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