Lmaooo. We're thoroughly unhappy when we have to choose our subject combinations for secondary 3... But I don't think most Singaporean students are unhappy, we just need to manage out time better with our CCAs and all that
TBH , im Singaporean , and not all students are smart just like me, most of us are typical students who hate going school, they are only filming like 10%
VictorXDD our papers are made to be really hard so that we can cope when we are in university, so globally its kinda like we are doing better compared to other countries
Altough I feel good about this kid, I still feel sad because he will grow up with that pressure on him. What if he develops a mental illness? That reputation can be over for him. So let's not call anyone the smartest person in the world, we're all balancing things that are not perfect.
to be honest, they're only showing what's going on in kindergarden...they don't know what actually happens in primary schools, secondary schools and so on...every singapore system primary and secondary school...school starts at 7.15am to 7.30am and so most students get up even before dawn.. and i also am almost late every single day for school...
@@futurez12 its because we start learning more challenging things at a younger age so things that may seem easy to us may seem hard to people maybe 2 years our senior
Why aren't I constantly hearing about new discoveries/inventions coming out of this country? It seems like there's a difference between academic test scores/IQ and genuine ingenuity.
Singaporeans do discover quite a few things, there are plenty of entrepreneurs too, you just don't really hear about them. Plus, due to the small population, it is normal that Singapore doesn't produce as many innovations as larger countries like USA, China etc. Just as a comparison, American is 60 times bigger than Singapore, so if you think of it, do they really discover 60 times more products/ideas that Singapore? Even if thats the case, Singapore is still in the process of shifting towards entrepreneurship/innovations, they are still currently mainly focusing on high tech manufacturing and service sectors that does not requires much innovation anyways.
So you wanna know why? Because our parents have the highest expectations that we can’t meet, like an “ A “ ( 75+/100 ) is a fail to them and an “A*” is a “just pass” for them and the only thing that satisfies them is “100/100” 😑 and tuition for ALL subjects. Struggles. And tbh not “ everybody “ is smart so
The education system is stressful too. Poor households like mine gets more expectations because you can get scholarships for improvement or highest percentage in your cohort.
They must be very good at mathematics and science, may be it's because most of them got a chance to start schooling at an early age and have opportunity to learn in a first world public school system than most of their neighboring country's kids.
Yea it’s illegal not to send your child to school ( homeschooling is possible though but only a few does that ) . I think parents would get fined for not sending your child to school and if it pursues they’ll get jailed? I think
Nope, Singapore's education system is superficially great but massively and passively destructive internally. The streamings though may have been abolished, are largely cultural and have pushed more than the growing and exploring needs of the youth here. I've witness top scorers of >3.5 GPAs who are just bad at doing human tasking, communication and planning. This is where they learned from young to working adulthood that everyone must be the same (uniformity). Their excuses in dialogues; would be 1. I have the right to do this since i scored top marks. (arrogance) 2. I'm well educated so no one can or should criticize me. (self-entitlement & bragging rights) 3. I know more than you know (copy-pasting patterns) 4.Those beneath us should work harder and we are entitled to piss on them. (Discrimination to those unfortunate) 5. Failure is not an option, it is a shame (similar to hara-kiri) 6. I must get top score or people will stigmatize me. (Fear of criticism and moral discipline) 7. We are much better than other countries, so they can't outperform us. (underestimating brains) 8. We worked hard and brilliantly, we deserve this more (self-entitled without earning). 9. We should be proud because we are protective and less rigid (a lie unspoken and tabooed). 10. Life is hard so we work hard and play hard (but not do things smartly). The list goes on and on. Comparing the local schools to the other countries be it western or eastern. Singapore's education is better for a fact but...has too many shortcomings. The shortcomings are often poor optimal working conditions (studying is a work which is exerted by the brain, resulting in mental fatigue). The others being stress which is either manufactured or unnaturally aligned to human conditioning. The long hours, focused mental retention and lack of applications simply makes Singaporeans the best copy-paste makers in the world. Creativity is numbed through what should have been naturally there for many. It is judged on grades which is poorly reflected. Creativity can be manufactured but it wouldn't be what it is originally meant to be. Now i came from the streaming periods of EM3-EM1 and so on. The streaming itself was ideally a good way to classify those who are weak and stronger in other subjects. However, the entire concept was not accounted for its physiological and psychological impacts including discrimination, specified tailoring to only those good at everything and ethical dilemmas between parents and children. Think of it proper, we have the smartest kids yet why can't we achieve even our own products? Is the amount of subjects given by additional 4 modules early helpful for the young kids who are still hopeful but awaiting a nightmare to cage them up? Have we decided to become so smart that we forgot we had our own shortcomings and its something we knew yet ignorantly avoid actively? This is where i called the Singapore Paradoxical Dillemma Unable to determine one change to the other. Unable to move on and transition safely without considering the needs. Its these kind of small errors or poor upbringings that leads to bigger social and perhaps economic problems. The few but not all, who can handle these have become selfish and arrogant. The majority who thought they were safe and self-entitled have their jobs ripped by someone lesser than them. Are Singaporeans truly this desperate that they want to be NUMBER 1 in everything? Have we forgotten that being NUMBER 1 doesn't help much if we can't even manage our own problems proper? As vague and somewhat weird my words are. It is exactly that culture needs to be re-shaped rather than adding more and more. You don't fix a glitch by adding more glitches no?
This is why the suicide rates of teenagers are increasing in the recent years due to stress. They think by taking away certain exams like CA1 and replacing it with a Weighted Assessment would reduce the stress but it doesn't. It creates more stress and pressure Cuz now it weighs so much and you keep having self doubt and stuff. And that leads to depression and anxiety
this system disadvantages those who have learning disabilities, i'm not talking about SEVERE disabilities either, just those who need some extra help to catch up, maybe they're just 10% slower than the other kids, those kids are DOOMED to fail thanks to this system that only thinks about expediency
Singapore aside, simply put, American culture does not venerate education and learning at a high enough level. The public schools don't need any more funding. Money does not repair the actual issue. The issue is in our culture itself. We revere leisure over learning. I am not necessarily being critical, although, I believe this is foolishness. It's just an obvious truth. Where will this culture lead? History will define that for us.
No offence to Singaporeans but despite having a good education system, there is no creativity and too much conformity in Singapore because of school. However,we are still smart
i think what they mostly mean by smart is that our education system is actually ahead from the world (arnd there) i was studying while on discord and i was doing algebraic and ratio algebra questions and i was mistaken for being 15 when in reality im 13. so basically what were learning is earlier than the rest
And now after 50 years the SG Government say that Singaporeans are not smart enough and hence the need to import talents from abroad to supplement the job markets. Agree that the job markets need diversification but the quality of so called 'Foreign Talent' is in many occasions questionable. Well qualified and well educated Singaporeans are being replaced by 'skilled' foreign talents simply because in general they are cheaper but not necessarily smarter. No point being the smartest country and pushing students to extreme stress and pressure and in the end look abroad. I would think South Koreans or the Japanese are smarter on the whole. They don't need to rely on foreign talents and their respective governments really trust their people to build the economy.
That’s the difference between the education system in Singapore and the Davidson Institute. Education should be the same for all, Not justa selected few, sorry but if the IQ is 135 that means you don’t qualify and therefore you need to be taught as it was 1962? Really this is the American way? The dream is available a selected few..
Singapore is 52 years old and has a population of 5 million. Jesus Christ what can you expect. Of course the USA has huge companies, they have such a big gene pool. Dude if u had a population of 325 million and didn’t have a genius that would be an embarrassment. Singaporeans perform better in average. Okay lemme put it in another way, if u took China and America and wanted to see which was richer would you use the total wealth? Of course not China has a population of 1.4 billion you take the bloody average
