MIscellaneous thoughts about "Why Singapore has the smartest kids in the
world, CNN"
To
sum up, this article says that Singapore improved their educational system and
the writer attributes Singapore's rags-to-riches transition to the educational
system. Singapore emphasizes creativity as well as knowledge and resilience as
well as smartness. The importance of education should be instilled at a young
age -- before children even get to primary school. Its education system
prioritizes good teachers. No further details aren’t mentioned in this article.
I have
heard and read about the similar way of thinking to this article several times.
In this article, the writer focuses on after 1970s in Singapore. Therefore, for
30 to 40 years, they established the education system, change their country’s
industries, and now today they are one of the best performing economies in the
entire world. The important point to notice is that they achieved a certain
goal drastically within a short span. Human-beings have always discovered new
things, found solutions, and invented new conveniences since ancient times. That
is to say, it can be said that Singapore has executed the dogma thoroughly and
in a planned way on a national scale. Creativity and resilience are classic yet
new.
However, I would like to advocate that life-long
learning is kind of important as well as early childhood education. Synergetic effect
of experience and learning would lead to creativity and resilience in every
field. In developed countries, society is aging, so the old must be creative
and resilient as well as the young. Because aging elderly people will be increase
as consumers and suppliers and ideas from age people will be important for
produce new goods and services.
Let
me to wrap up. We should consider early-childhood education for not only
knowledge but also creativity. Further, I think that we had better learn as
necessary throughout our life and we could be creative and resilient by
synergetic effect of experience and learning. According to this article, “This
is sort of a question of priorities. You can see in all tiers of public policy,
education comes first. That's your future." I would like to say that education
comes first in youth and learning on the basis of our experience comes first
regardless of socioeconomic position. That’s our future especially in aging
society.
