Does everything really have to be judged by written papers? Must there always be a fixed format, a fixed examination full of conformities and restrictions?

The world is indeed weird. We judge people by how good they perform in a two-hour paper rather than their performance in a real situation. Our lives are determined by a sheet of paper that has alphabets representing how competent we are in understanding or memorising a particular subject. There is little to no real world connection or application. Even if that connection exists, it's probably so minute that one should rather ignore it instead.

We introduce new dynamic subjects that test the student's ability and aptitude in teamwork, report writing and assume the system that these subjects run on are perfect, and that any mistakes made by the student are the flaws or weaknesses that they display. We do not realise that these students may indeed have a reason for these flaws, that we may be the ones responsible for the flaws instead.

Oh well, think about it!

Labels: Life, Musings

|| posted by Kuan Hui