Viewpoint on "Why Singapore has the smartest kids in the world"

MIscellaneous thoughts about "Why Singapore has the smartest kids in the world, CNN"

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/05/asia/singapore-smartest-kids/index.html

 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.