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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
6:18 PM
“Education has failed to make people educated.” Do you agree that this is true of people in your country?
Education is supposed to enrich the learning experience of people and nurture a cultured and gracious society whereby people exercise social conscience. However, despite the high level of literacy rate in Singapore, many of us are still unruly and ungraciousness. One classic example is the situation when an MRT train arrives at the platform of a station. Instead of letting passengers alight first, people just barge their way in, for fear of the lack of seats. This causes great inconvenience to those alighting and some are even unable to alight in time. Is this what is education supposed to do, make people selfish and self-centered? Thus, in the area of social conscience, education has failed to make people educated.
Another aim of education is to remove the different level of hierarchies in today’s society. However, it does have instances where education backfires. The more educated people would feel that they are more superior and start to despise those who are lower in education, or those that may not even have a chance at education. This can be seen from the instances of maid abuse that is reported in the Singapore news. Isn’t education supposed to make people more aware of human rights and respect for it? This clearly shows that while education provides knowledge for people, it has failed to inculcate a sense of sensitivity for others.
As such, I feel that the rigid education of Singapore is not effective in making people educated. Education needs to be more flexible and include more areas such as social conscience and moral responsibility. An educated society is not one full of knowledge, but rather one that is compassionate and cultured. Though doing community work is compulsory for secondary school students, it sometimes defeats its purpose as students just do it for the sake of clocking hours. To make people truly educated, our education system must undergo reform.Melissa
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