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28 octubre 2007
The Yip way of education?
is merely a dream. Yes, the Yip way of education, is merely a dream. Waking up at 9, start studying at 10, end school ends in 5 hours?
To me, this isn't the way to educate your children. Computer games are not Halo or Counter-Strike, it means educational games like 'The Magic Schoolbus' and 'Freddie Fish' board games doesn't mean Snakes and Ladders or Monopoly, it means Junior Scrabble and maybe Sudoku. Is this what you call leisure, i don't think so.
I dun want my kid to grow up and when asked what games he plays, what are his favourite movies, he answers:' whats a computer game? oh, my favourite movie is the Inconvenient truth.' The education system in Singapore isn't developed overnight, it has been many years already, with the oldest schools being at least 75 years old. The experience of the teachers and the elite of the education has been passed down generation by generation and slowly improved, a student myself, i feel that i have benefited a lot from the education system. Getting your kid to start studying when he is at the age of 2, this reminds me of a very Singaporean phrase, 'dunno how to walk want to fly'. This definitely fits in. The Yip's youngest child can't even use a pair of chopsticks, you are now calling him to differentiate a Rocket and a Space Shuttle?
At the age of 14 and 12, the Yip's eldest son and daughter are sent to Britain to further their studies. Has Dr Yip considered the complexity of the outside world. Does he even worry about he influence out there in the more liberal western countries? Things can happen. Has Dr Yip considered about the well-being of his children in the mental state and not in the academic state? They have been pulled out of school, away from friends and put into a foreign environment.
Has Dr Yip's son and daughter ever done a holiday stint? Probably work at a ice cream store or be a librarian? I dun think so. And he is thinks tat sending his children as an intern to a doctor is more meaningful? Not that i dun think this is not meaningful, however not everyone grows up being able to be a doctor, i feel that Dr Yip is isolating his children in the world of elitists.
When other children grow up, they look for work in the classifieds, slowly making their way up the ladder, with probably no human relations skills, how are Dr Yip's children going to survive? They have always been educated at home, then sent overseas for studies, to Dr Yip, i guess the he wants his children to be geniuses and give a headstart, but does he know that our math standard in Singapore is so far beyond other countries? being educated in Singapore, is already a headstart.
Well, if it were me, i would do my best to let my children enjoy their short childhood before education take their youth away. And during the period of education, all the time can be spared, let me spoil them.
[P]rince [P]ickles has been doodling again at 7:13 p. m.``
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