'Education has failed to make people educated.' Do you agree that this is true of the people in your country? (SRJC 2002)

'Education has failed to make people educated.' Do you agree that this is true of the people in your country? (SRJC 2002)


I agree to a certain extent that education has failed to make people educated in Singapore. Education, i believe, should not just be confined to academics. If we take into account on education on etiquette, I would say that Singaporeans are 'uneducated' in a sense.

Our Singapore education system focus mainly on academics, just like many asian countries. Students are instilled with values that the best route to success is to work their way up to university smoothly and get a decent job. But, not everyone is academically inclined. Although our government tried ,time and again, to emphasise that there are many other alternative route, not many people choose to change their perspective of education. Education to them is mug, confined within the grades you achieve. I believe we should look beyond that.

Education is not the what grades you achieve after many years of study, i think. It is, rather, the journey that you've been through studying, the phase when you figure out what education is truly for. I feel that it is when you learn to see things in more ways and understand life.

Moreover, social education such as basic manners is just an important too. We've all heard about those jokes foreigners make about Singaporeans. This goes to show that our social upbringing has not met international standards.

therefore, education in Singapore has only made us believe in textbooks but ignored the other aspects of education.