Just a link to an article which I think expands on the theme that I have been writing about, that is, the need for a serious reconsideration about what the whole schooling experience in Singapore is about.

While changes are being made in Singapore, notice that the changes of this nature are usually reserved for the top schools. It is as if there is almost an unstated assumption that only the academically bright should be exposed to the “new education” What about the rest of the masses?

Have the policy makers considered that such things may actually be more meaningful for the not-so academically inclined? For many of these, I suspect that “disconnect with schools” that I had written about has already taken place. The cure is not more homework or extra classes. Though the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Singapore has introduced the positive step of industrial or job attachment schemes for the students in the Normal (Technical) stream students, they should go one step further and actually introduced those initiatives at the top schools for the average or even below average students. Now, for the “less academically-inclined”, they are already being channeled to jobs at the lower end of the economic ladder. Stratification starts very early.

Think about it. This is the age of Multiple Intelligences. Yet we are still focused on those with the linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligent people who have already been catered for in the current school system.