Sunday, May 21, 2006
We are been educated based on what the society demands us to do. When education policies change, the expectation of what education demands differs. Therefore, we should ask a question, what do we want to get out of education. To many people, we want a piece of paper to recognise what we have achieved. To those who think they are politcally correct, they wanted a holistic education that demands every aspect of a student's life. To me, I want to be educated under a situation where I can pursue my interests and leaving no boundaries, sourcing out all the information I could get out of this topic and not to be confined in a situation that undermine my interests and limit myself to certain information. I wanted to do real experiments, not the usual SPA assessments that showed very limited results and statistics. In education, the knowledge that we are taught are just information that we should be aware of. This information may not be accurate or 'correct' and we have to digest this information, memorise them and even be tested on this information. Hence, this assessment of this education is perhaps to make us aware of this knowledge, or perhaps information. However, this assessment has been the most convenient way of assessing out ability of how aware the information that we have, and not assessing on the true capabilities of us in interpretating the theories and have our own stand on this theories. As education developes, we are taught in the most convenient way, due to the demands of paper qualifications in the society and are been rooted to ace our examinations which is at that point to us, is the most crucial part of education. The underlying aspect of education becomes something like a tool for perhaps a propanganda to force us to accept ideals and theories that are been made by others and not to promotes any critical thinking about this theories and make a stand on this theories. Maybe, the education system had tried its best by promoting critical thinking and also to help us better understand these theories that are taught to us, but these theories and information taught to us make not be true in ten years' time or maybe five years' and the ideal of mordern education perhaps has changed its role on educating us.
what we could have been, 8:27 PM.
