Sometimes I wonder how can people be so judgmental regarding something? Is it because they regard themselves to be better than others? If not, why do you judge in the first place? What gives you the right to be able to judge on something which you yourself have no knowledge about? Some of you might be wondering just what am I talking about right? Yeah well, just go to this link and you'll know what I mean.
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=1849787
There's this one forum user in the thread which I am absolutely pissed off with. Here's the story: He was offered a job to teach in Republic Polytechnic(RP) but declined the offer because he felt it would 'dirty' his resume. The basis for this is because he felt that RP's method for teaching is too lax and the fundamentals of the modules learned are lost because the students taking those modules usually 'smoke' their way through the entire module. As a current RP student, I was aghast when I read the thread posted in the forum. How dare he try to bring down RP's reputation. I've not been a student in RP for long but what I DO know about it is that the students do learn and they understand the given problem much better. If we were to compare RP's teaching method to other polytechnic, I would say RP would still produce as much quality students as the other polytechnic. If he were saying that RP teaching method is flawed, then why don't he come up with something better? If the method is flawed, then why the hell is it approved by the Ministry of Education(MOE)? Oh yeah, this is the best part about this guy who posted a lot of degrading shit about RP. He thinks himself to be so good but in the end uses broken English in his post. I was completely baffled and taken aback by his mastery of the English or lack of it. If he was so 'superior', why didn't he post in a manner which everyone can understand? I honestly had difficulties trying to read and understand his post because it was simply laden with too much unneeded suffixes and affixes which I believe do not bring any kind of extra flavour to the posts.
Anyway, back to the main topic. In any institute of education, it is up to the students to be self-disciplined enough to be able to take it upon his or her self to make sure that their time in that school is not wasted. It is very much unfair to use a percentage of these students, who are lazy and uses nothing more than their talking skills to gain good grades, to account for the image of the rest of the student population. I achieved enough points to even go to JC but I chose not to because I knew that most JC students suffer in there and this is especially true in my case since I have a lot of students who were in my secondary school that goes to JC and suffered even though they were one of the tops back then. You might be thinking that my school might be a crappy school and that's why they are getting good grades. Well how about this, the average 'o' level points were 12 for L1R5 and less than 10 for L1R4? That is better than average for a neighborhood school.
So what my school(RP) is trying to promote is actually independent studying, teamwork, interpersonal skills and also critical thinking. We have presentations everyday which helps to boost our confidence when facing an audience. I have a friend who was so shy to present at first but later becomes really confident. We become confident in presenting not because we are 'smoking' our way through but instead we are confident because we know that the facts that we have learned is true and therefore accurate. Even though the students are given the same topic, most would probably not cover the same angle to the topic as the others. In that way, we are exposed to different sides of the topic and in the process gain more knowledge. In every school, there will definitely be students who choose to relax and not take their school work seriously. So please do not use these students to generalize the whole student population of RP. If you want to generalize, please show me some concrete facts to help support your statement. If you don't have any, please kindly shut up and fuck off. Peace!
Sunday, March 30, 2008
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