Only The Education System Fault?
Tuesday, 24 May, 2005
General | 笔者: Twinsmom
“In our country education system, something is not right.”
Recently I have been hearing a lot, from some blogs, then from the neighbours of the bakery.
Lazy Bone and Twinsdad’s friend mention that the local fresh graduated not independent enough to handle the work, but ask for higher pay. The neighbour said our education system cannot compare with overseas, too much homework, and lack of creativity etc.
Upon reading those blog and comment, I can’t help but think is it our education system really that bad?
I had a discussion with my father today while we making the buns.
My father said:
“Today parents too depends on the school, they hope the school (teacher) can teach their kids everything under the sun. But school only give the kids knowledge, of cause the school teach them moral also, but the person who couch the kids to practise the moral and knowledge are the parent themselves.”
I think a lot of us hear about a parent complain about the teacher or school, when their kids not dong well in the exam, or when their kid misbehave they also blame the school for not guide the kids in moral. But then how many of the parent realise their attitude is the key factor to the student’s behaviour?
Chinese said 上樑不正下樑歪 (the beam above not straighten, the beam below will tilted too), if the parent is not a problem solving person, how they wish their kid can think of an option when they face an obstacle? Take a very simple example—
When I was in primary school, my mom teach me how to sew the button back to my uniform when it came off, if I can’t find the original button, my mom will advice to take the last button of the shirt to replace the lost one, because the bottom of the shirt can’t be see after we tuck-in, if some more button came off, then take down all the button, replace all with new and uniform button, instead of throw away the uniform just because of a missing button.
How many of the mother will teach their kid about this?
This is just an example, not that I tell all the mother you have to teach your kid sewing skill.
But then this is a daily living skill, may be some will think that this is just a small matter, a lot family have maid now, just tell the maid to sew it back, or simply throw it and get a new one, what is the big deal?
But to me I see this as a way the mother show the kid how to think, and solve the problem.
When we was young our parent complain their childhood with us and think we was spoilt, but then today to our kids we also think the same like our parent did.
Everything is ready for the kids, we used to wrap our text book, but today we can find variety size of readymade textbook wrapping in stationary department. If you think it is good mah, convenience mah, why Twinsmom talk about it like a crime.
Ya lor, convenience, everything are so convenience now a day, too convenience until the kids don’t know how to sweep the floor with broom, don’t know how to tilt the broom sweep the corner.
No need to wash their own dishes after meal; no need to hang, fold, iron laundry; no need to change their own bed sheet; no need to change the light bulb; don’t know where the toolbox is etc.
Never bring the kid to wet market; visit the family relatives, or friends.
What they need to do is just go to school, does their homework, go tuition, pass their exam, no daily living skill needed, no social skill needed. Anything goes wrong with the kid’s study or exam, go the school yell to the teacher, hit the table question the headmaster in front of their kid, show the teacher some Contender skill if needed.
Then when the kid graduated started work in the company, there come all the problem, then the parent start blame the education system, so convenience.
So the school, college, and university nothing wrong? All the parent false?
Not really, this is a real life example from me and Twinsdad—
During our third years in the college, our principle and dean boost the college’s system so much, they said: “Even though as a fresh graduated, our student’s capability can match with the art director in the industry in no time, more than 1K of salary never a question…”
10 years ago for a fresh graduate in the advertising line 1K is a huge wage, for us with working experience before we go back to college, we matured enough to know that was a empty promise (by the time we graduated I was 26 and Twinsdad 25, our classmate 90% was just 19-21), but our classmate was so full of hope, a lot of them really actually looking for a post with more than 1K of wage, otherwise they turns it down and take it as a humiliation! (The attitude of the fresh graduate seems like no different from 10 years ago till now huh? Even though the Adobe Photoshop have been upgraded to version 11).
Ended up years later we heard a lot of our former classmate complaint about the industry, or some of them finally realized that was an empty promised.
I was glad that my father had prep me on this when I graduated, as a boss himself he always telling me no matter how experience or how skillful I am, don’t ask for a high wage before I show my capability, work hard, understand my superior, gain their trust, they will teach me more, and even though if I have tender my resignation, double my afford to make them miss me more after not work with me anymore.
Cunning? No, social skill saja.