When I attended first class in NYP I was very shocked because it is different lecture system from Korea. In NYP, there is lots of discussion time with classmates. After that they share their opinion with teacher. During presentation some students joke with teacher. Sometimes they talk strange answer. If they do like this in Korea, they can’t stay in classroom. It is not allowed to joke in class especially when teacher ask answer. However, in Singapore, teacher write all things on the board, and tell them “Ok, not bad.” or “possible.”
How can is it allowed? Why teachers don’t angry to them?
At that time I thought a lot of thing. I was very envy this system. The students can speak what they want to say, it means they don’t need to afraid of ‘NO’. Compared to Singapore in Korea, most students are afraid of teacher’s reaction. Teachers think that their thought is truth and they are also very authoritarian. So if student answer something different from their thought they said “You are wrong!” This kind of teacher’s attitude makes student lose confident and blocks student’s thinking. It also makes students as a same person who thinks same. Students try to find answer that teacher wants. So students can’t make progressive ideas and further the ideas. Even some students don’t talk anything during the lecture because teachers ignore students thought.
Also Korea’s education way is different from here. We have the cramming system of education. We just listen and write some information from teacher. It isn’t common to share ideas with classmates and teacher. I think we need change our system like here.
Helping to grow student’s ideas is teacher’s task. They have to encourage students to announce in class and respect all students’ opinion. It makes students be creative, and broaden their thoughts.
By comparing Korea to Singapore, the Singapore education really instills a senses and culture of learning and creativity in the students. This is in line with the first 2 points of Deputy Prime Minister Teo’s speech. This is so as being creative would lead our future thinkers to be more innovative and have more ideas for the Research and development hub in the future. Also, with this culture of learning that is instilled in the students, students would feel that learning is an enjoyable thing and they would be encouraged to be lifelong learners and not just stop learning when they leave school.
The third point that the Deputy Prime Minister brought up was to be environmentally sustainable. I personally feel that being environmentally sustainable starts with the individual. Although the government is trying its best to make Singapore more Eco-Friendly and environmentally sustainable,, most Singaporeans, I feel, are not putting in a lot of effort in doing this. One example, I have noticed is in Supermarkets, where most Singaporeans do not bring their Eco-Bags to use and use the free plastic bags provided by the Supermarket. Unlike this, in Korea, most people use their own bags and have to pay extra to get the plastic bags. I have noticed that the Supermarket is starting to introduced new ways to get people to use their own bags but it is not enough as most people still do not abide with this rule.
The fourth point is how Singapore must be a talent magnet to stay ‘fresh and young’. Since I am a foreigner, I feel that for someone to be attracted to migrate to another country, that country must offer the best for him. For example, the country’s education system must be a good one so that his children would be well educated and the social, moral and cultural environment of the country must be good. I feel that Singapore has achieved these because it is a very safe country and very clean and almost everyone is effectively bilingual. If I get the chance I would also want to migrate to Singapore because it really attracts me here.
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