5/19/08
As if once isn't enough,I'm being forced to do school stuff on a public holiday the second time this month. God help me before I go nuts -.-
I met up with my groupmates to do another draft of GPP today. Was aiming for an approval this time round (please!), as we received not-so-bad comments for our last draft. We spent hours just to squeeze out any ounce of brain juice we have just to get it settled, yet we only managed half of the draft. Seems we have to work extra hard before the deadline though.
Somehow i feel that the PW system is rather screwed up. MOE says it teaches us life skills which are highly applicable when we enter the working world. Fine enough, i second that. MOE says it nurtures us into workers who are capable of working with others easily. Fine enough, i second that. MOE says we should focus on and learn from the process of doing it, not the end-product.
Not fine enough, i
don't second that. They want us focus our minds on the process, yet they want PW grades to contribute towards university entry. How ironical. How could they expect us to reap from the process if the end-product matters much more?
At the end of the day, Singapore values meritocracy much more than our individual skills after all. Personally i would still put in my best efforts in PW because its a A-level subject. But i believe there has to be better alternatives (than considering PW for university entrance) in order to arouse interest in the subject. If they chose to resort to drastic measures, so be it. Let their own policies backfire for all i care.
