Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Purpose of education

Read this valedictorian speech of a high school graduate.

I excelled at every subject just for the purpose of excelling, not learning. And quite frankly, now I’m scared.


My view
I agree with her views. For a long time, I have said that the purpose of education is to learn and not to get good grades.

Read my views here (see item6).
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3 comments:

Spur said...

err, there is error in the link to your views.

It is linking back to the same valedictorian speech.

August 04, 2010 2:13 PM
Tan Kin Lian said...

Hi Spur
Link has now been corrected. Thanks.

August 04, 2010 9:18 PM
Steven said...

Well whether the purpose is to learn or get good grades depend on individual so to speak. However, how individual decide depend greatly on our education policy and environment setup to be. If our edu policy direction is to start to emphasis on grades in order to categories who to groom for future as early as Primary 3(i believe it started in 1973?), it cannot be help that grading becomes a very important focus both for teachers, the school and parents. It has been close to 40 yrs and every new minister will want to perform better and introduce something new than the previous, so there is no turning back unless a new minister is willing ... go against the trend and back to basic. Hopefully that will bring the lower education an enjoyable growing up experience in life.

August 05, 2010 1:52 PM

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