And this, to be honest, is what I find truly interesting about the social dynamic here. As we Singaporeans are willing to reflect and criticise the apparent flaws even in a decent-enough system, is what drives our people to improve and refine it to a greater degree. This is actually evident in the education system here, which has undergone serious fundamental changes since the 1990s, from a highly banded, elitist and draconian system that bred a 'lost generation' of students whom struggled in the class strata based on exam grades alone, to a now more holistic approach with greater appreciation for 'beyond-the-exam-grades' skills in the 21st century. And as a Singaporean, I truly am rather appreciative of this, even if serious errors and cracks remain existent.
This is all true, it is good for us, and is critical (forgive the pun) for us to progress further. The self criticism is closely tied with our highly held virtue of modesty or humility. But my purpose is to begin conversation that we ourselves realise this tendency is not shared by many advanced nations. This becomes important when we communicate, and compete with others. Especially with Americans, they take things very literally, and they come from an opposite culture of self-promotion. Having interacted with many Americans at work and socially, it took a few times for them to mention: "why do you guys have no confidence?" before I realised this our national trait. They interpret self effacement and modesty as a lack of confidence, or a self admitted lack of quality of our products. There is a lesson in this, that while we quietly expect others to see quality inherent in us or our products, we are living in a competing world of self promotion. Our overseas efforts can be much more effective if we realise this trait, whether it be exports, or services, or just cultural influence. All we have to do is to look at the disproportionate size of Korean soft power, and we can realise this particular difference in our cultures. The South Koreans are not unique in this. If we look at Japan, Hongkong etc. we can start seeing our trait of over-modesty a little better.
@@keffinsg constructive criticism towards yourself is ok and stuff, but I think what he's trying to say, is that you guys tend to not deliver it in a constructive way so to foreigners it looks like insulting yourself instead of over-modesty
Watching this video alone makes me itch glad I was born in Africa where my father has a lot of land to feed an entire generation. Edit: Life is simple but we insist on making it complicated.
Yup ikr, the teachers always do that. Like when you go on a learning journey when, the discipline master will like keep reminding us about behaving well in public which is kinda annoying .
Singaporean here. My cousin queued for what many perceive as a top kindergarten in Singapore from the moment she found out she was pregnant. My sister in law signed her kids up for Mandarin tuition for a famed Mandarin tutor from when they were 3 because by the time the kids are 7, it would be impossible to get a slot with her. But those are their choices. I chose to put my kids in kindergartens that didn’t need queueing up, but where I perceived the kids enjoyed learning. My youngest was placed in MOE Kindergarten which is surprisingly good & learned to be very independent and creative as a thinker. What they learned there is very different from the kindergartens his older brothers attended which were fun but yet more academically driven. For Primary school, my experiences with the so-called top schools were bad. I felt the neighbourhood schools were more focused on student welfare and the teachers were more passionate about educating the kids. The top schools were more focused on their reputation and their ego & kids fell through the gap. Although we no longer rank schools, the culture persists. Independent sites rank them and parents still pick schools with this misguided notion that a top school is better, that neighbourhood school kids are lesser than a kid from a top school. Well, I beg to differ and will share why. Plus money and better grades does not make you a better person. My kids were bullied in top schools mainly because they are good natured and kind. Two of them went through school changes for that reason. Eldest was in a neighbourhood school nearby and was one of their top pupils. Another girl and him were the first kids in the school to be streamed to the gifted stream. He had to switch schools as a result and he chose a renown all boys school coz my dad attended it in his childhood and he is v close to my dad. Sadly, he was bullied so badly & within half a year he would lie catatonic in bed and refuse to go to school. He grew disinterested in school and life. He was an introvert who kept the cards close to his chest so he did not complain & told us nothing. God is good and a kind & concerned parent of his classmate reached out to tell me how the teacher gave him a debilitating nickname (Baby J) as he was small and cute… which caused the kids to bully him as a herd from day 1. There were many instances of bullying. He was suicidal and depressed at age 10 and we made the decision to pull the plug on his journey in the gifted education stream & placed him back in the neighbourhood school in the regular stream. It wasn’t that he couldn’t cope academically… he enjoyed that… but socially and emotionally he had been broken. We told him he is smart but not because the ministry of education said so. He is smart because God blessed him with a good mind. So we told the govt we wanted to take him out and it took a meeting with the officials, psychologist from. the ministry, the school principal and head of department for it to happen. It took intensive counselling and he healed up but I can see how it has made him angrier than before. My eldest did well and got into a good secondary school here which was part of a full school (has both primary and secondary school). My friends said the principal then was good. It is a full school (has both primary and secondary school) so we placed our younger son in it so the two older boys could be together. But the principal changed & with it, the culture changed. The parents of the kids in his class were really nice, but their kids were (sadly) spoilt and mean. We wasted no time once we felt our spider senses tingle and took our middle child out in Primary 2 and placed him in a neighbour school that many perceive to be lousy. But that I explored since our youngest’ kindergarten was located in it, and it was a surprise! The enrolment for this school was so poor because of public assumption. That meant the classroom size is small. Plus, it turned out that they have an excellent principal and teachers. The school care so deeply for their kids, the students are super happy learners and kind, class sizes are small & they teach growth mindset lessons. We placed him there because the neighbourhood school near us (that his elder brother was from) was full since we switched him mid way. It was a blessing. He is dyslexic and the school Teachers here patiently help him and they placed him in a pilot class for students struggling with Mandarin- which both of the other schools didn’t have. His confidence in the language is better. He still isn’t great at it but he doesn’t hate the subject anymore. The school he was in formerly was a SAP school which focused a lot on Mandarin. The youngest is now in the neighbourhood school the eldest was from which is a short walk away. He wanted to be with my middle child but we decided because they would only be in the same school for 3 years, it was better to place the youngest in the nearer school so that when he started attending extracurricular classes in upper primary, he would be able to come home faster and rest more. Again we were blessed coz the school identified he has issues with attention (although he can understand his lessons, he fidgets a lot) & placed him in a pilot scheme: a classroom setting where initially specialised teachers coached him in skills to communicate and focus better for two subjects, then blended him back into the main class later on in the year. He is a happy learner and is enjoying school a lot. I look back at my own education which was in one of the top all girls school here (miserable too) & at my kids’ education journey, and I can say for certain that the neighbourhood schools have given my children a more balanced and happy education. When kids are happy, they do better. Top schools and gifted education do not always mean your kids do better. Better to equip and care for them emotionally first and nurture better EQ, then build on that educationally. That way they have a better ability to cope as it gets harder and creative play helps them think out of the box & come at education with more passion and less one track mind thinking.
wow im sure westerners like your comment very much. i went to a top 20 full school and in time i will strive to put my kids in similar top schools as well unless the world changes to paying more those with high eq. the day singapore adopts western complacency, the island dies.
*10. There are foundation streams for academically weaker students to go to at 10. As if the schools have to discriminate those students at such a young age.
fuusha 99 thats my school . Whats even worse is , they force us to go for extra classes as long as 4 to 6 hours. Im lucky that shit is over . Now I just hope sutdents can have a better life than me
I think the point was the main focus isn't the testing, like here the whole school year revolves around those tests, their funding depends on it, (wierd because if your not testing well, you probably need more help), and the children are no longer learning much anything beyond those tests and it's sad, I've watched the education system plummet in the past 30 yrs I've seen myself... All you have to do is follow the money and policy to see where our priorities are, we're the only advanced nation behind in many things, like paid parental leave, paid vacation sick or medical advances ,(unless you have the money. Our jobs offer things, but we take a cut in pay to receive them there for paying for it ourselves we don't show that our priorities are family, or a quality life, we spend more time revolving around our jobs, although income has been the same since the 70's although productivity raised high, we're very backwards and power greed driven in our policy and priorities, we reward power addicts and demonize haedworking people struggling to make it needing help. When businesses started giving themselves 700% raises plus huge bonuses with the profits and stopped reinvesting in the workers who otherwise the business wouldn't exist, so they could buy the products and have a healthy economy
testing is such a huge deal here, you have multiple tests every week or day. especially in secondary school and junior college. its just another asian country at the end of the day after all.
Every week there are 2 or more tests, it is amazing. I am not capable to summarise all the points that hamper the efficiency of learning here. Yes many pupils may do well in collecting points.
I agree with you - although it is a necessary evil as SG relies on manpower - her people as a sole resource to keep the nation relevant in an increasingly competitive global scene. Heck, just PISA will tell you Shanghai is trashing us flat, when they actually have more students that our minuscule excuse of a nation. I amuse at your analogy of us being "another Asian country" though, which is precisely a stereotype (positive one) that really makes us rather untouchably more professional than any other cultures in the world. But mind you - Asia is large. What you (assuming you're an American) might be referring to might be East Asians in particular.
And as a JC 2 student this year (an equivalent of Year 12, High School 3rd), I am preparing for the GCSEs throughout November and it is one hell of a 'mugging' session, what we term locally as being intense studying. Tests everyday to polish our recalling abilities, weed off recurrent errors and insecurities, and just physical fatigue each day. Nonetheless, it is a process that I still can enjoy (quite masochistic, ain't I?) with the knowledge that it can lead me to a better future, at least. With a level of guarantee and security. Plus me being a little bit of an oddball unlike the large majority of Singaporeans who are 'below' me according to the highly demeaning 'bell curve' education system, tests and exams to me are just another set of practices again and again, albeit with a more serious context to them.
I lived outside of Singapore many years and have attended schools in both Asian and the US. So i know first hand what the pros and cons are. When my children reached schooling age, I moved my family back to Singapore solely because of our education system and have never regretted the decisions.
1: they first develop teachers that are worthy of respect and authority. 2: they then create an environment that reinforces respect for others, community, and country. 3: now that they have established expectations and social norms, much of the friction and obstacles that inhibit learning are removed. This creates a clean canvas to learn on. Most of the differences between our education systems is behavioral rather than monetary or procedural.
Srsly, I just cant express how relatable some of d comments here are. This video is clearly a form of propaganda, meant to portray Singapore's education as 'perfect' when it's really less den perfect. Any student in Singapore will understand d stress they face in d importance of education results as any of these will actually affect d child's future n career. Life is just too stressful here. N I can say dat as I'm a overly stressed student dat constantly thinks of suicide n ways just to escape from stress here.
+Krieger Helton Let them be, when they grow up and get some generic job that requires you to work for the whole day with low pay, they'll still be happy with their lives. If they want to be robots then they can robots.
LMFAO. Not all Primary and secondary schools have such a high budget where they can use smart boards or even laptops . Also, all students are subjected to standardized testing which if they fail they would get my supplementary classes which would be counterproductive since almost everyday the student will feel stress for the next test , homework and even projects since they will have less time to devote to these tasks .
dylan.wangs the laptops in beacon primary school are the children's oen laptop.and as beacon primary school is the first future school,of course the need technology
I am a HKer and an Australian teacher. Australians value relationships more than achievement, hence teachers have to tip toe around if they want to tell a parent a child is under performing and often, not tell the whole truth. Parents also get upset if told their child is under performing, blaming the teacher or school, rather than get their child to work harder or wiser. These are very noticeable difference between education in Asia and Australia.
i dont tell my mom that i got paddled at school. were i that stupid, i would get an extra paddling at home. parents here trust teachers more than their own kids.
Education in Hong Kong and Singapore is just more organized and systematized for standardized teaching. It doesn't mean it is better way to teach our kids.
i am impressed that they chose a very neighbourhood school. bear in mind to all critics.. this is a very real common education system that not rich children goes to.. unlike those top schools that the rich sent to. so.. yes.. very accurate assessment of the education where 80% of people had here.
Well bk Singpore school standards are A:good/excellent/band1 B:average /band2 C:band 3/just past etc 50-60 marks. D: a failure. Anyways i live in singapore:)like if u dont or agree?
It is stressful to be a student here, even in primary school. For Primary Schoo Leaving Exam, the 6th graders are tested on what they learn from 3rd / 4th grade upwards, and sometimes the questions can be confusing, esp when it comes to Maths. And then it gets easy in the 1st year in secondary school, but in 3rd year, there was a great increase of what they learnt from 2nd yeae, but then in 4th year, there werw much more students gotta learn because there will be O levels at end of year. they were expected to capture fast in case they get left behind. If i am not wrong, O levels at end of 4th year includes what they learn in the earlier years. This can be stressful, not only with the large amount of content in each subject they have to remember, but also the number of subjects they have to handle. And the students are expected to achieve an A or at least B in all subjects.
dbm 4794 its not so bad lah. Yes a lot of students are "kiasu" but its because they want the best in their kids. I would know, I live here and a lot of my classmates have tuition because of theor parents. But, that being said, there are multiple pathways for the students to make it. Of course I'm not disagreeing with the fact that it is very stressful during exam season with the PSLE and O/N levels and that needs to be inproved on but at the end of the day, humans are the only resource Singapore has. So of course its gotta have this stressful highly competitive environment, and honestly I'm lucky that my parents dont care whether i get A or B, they care about whether I actually put in effort to do my best so I guess that helps me out a bit in terms of MY stress level and some my friends are the same. Honestly right, my class doesnt really care bout exams at all. Joking around all the time in class and then laugh at their horrible results in SA2, SA1 you know? And I dont know whether if it happens in other schools but my school just has a bunch of stuff like lunchtime concerts every once in a while by students, like it releives a bit of stress and having a lot of fun cheering on ya schoolmates and classmates and the ccas that wanted to perform for the concert. But from my own personal life, i actually didnt find our educational system that stressful. :)
dbm 4794 Well, I guess it depends on schools and parents. I personally don't find the system so stressful. Not everyone view exams as something to stress over about, especially one of my classmates who actually wanted to fail every single subject. He passed one so he was pretty upset about that. 😂
I would prefer if you people not post such negative comments. Yes, you might want to voice out your own opinions, but do not use vulgarities. Also, respect your own country, be proud that you are a Singaporean and are given a good education. There are many other people out there who do not have an opportunity to have an education. You will understand one day why teachers require you to do so much homework, you will eventually learn that it will be of benefit in the future. Be thankful and as
Carole Lim woahhh ive never seen someone as grumpy as you before. And on the first day of CNY? Com' on sis. Actually it kinda is. IB is a program leading up to a diploma. Its similar to any type standardised test- be it sats, Os, As, PSLE. It is just what you make of it. IB is supposed to be a program that develops a person's character and cements their love for learning but certain IB schools in Singapore have taken the A level direction to the already tedious and strenous program - resulting into a hellpit for the students. Cheers! And dont reply
I don't know why with all the negativity on Singapore education system. As a Malaysian, I see Singapore's education system and the whole operations of nurturing whilst educating the young ones as an amazing work. The proof of the excellent education system in Singapore is you yourself. Your country has had huge development in all aspects especially economic and education..
@@deadghosts2706 talk to the 6 year rubber tapper in Myanmar, 7 year old plastic scavenger in Philippines and the 8 year garment factory worker in Bangladesh......then you will know.
Singapore government always believe that the key to have a developed country is to start from young means through education. Therefore Singapore government always emphasize a lot in our education. Lack of sleeps have affect our young ones health
I’m Sure in Primary School, everyone should not be having lack of sleep. Even so, in Secondary school, people complain about too “much” homework when it’s their own fault they can’t finish because they procrastinate. They will then blame MOE for not giving them enough sleep. I can understand that in order to maintain or get good results in Uni, Yo I have to sleep late every night
6:05 "You didn't hear about test-based learning" hahaha key-phrase is 'you didn't hear'. Just because you didn't hear about it doesn't mean it's not true.
India should move to this type of education teaching, not to make a student employed but smart enough to have a knowledge and make one tension free of obstacles and face it through the excitement knowledge they have........ Shreya, Hope so India would progress.
It is heartening to see someone inspired by our system, but I sincerely feel that the amount of effort and intensity our nation puts to the system is highly demanding, and would require an insane amount of logistic cost, manpower cost, feasibility tests and all sorts of redtape and loopholes to work in India, such a colossal nation of over a billion people. It would be good to see a few cities adopt this first, albeit the concern being the insane inequality that would result from the disparity in quality of education between the cities and the villages...if India can even initiate such a pilot to begin with.
I works due to splitting stream. Not necessarily a bad/good thing, depends on how you look at it. Singapore follows a meritocracy system where students with better abilities are valued more than students with weaker abilities (which is normal in Asia, after all). I'm a Singaporean, feel that Finland's system is much better. However, the education system should be adapted based on the local situation. e.g. China's stressful education system would not work well in the UK, UK's slower paced system would make Chinese students not have the will to learn more (as in Chinese education system they are kind of "forced" to learn to "have a good future").
Be thankful, Singapore children. Because you've got the best education.😊 As for me ?? At school I don't have the facilities and the good education system in Indonesia.😳
no tests? I think you guys are forgetting about the PSLE, O-levels, A-levels, and if you do badly N-levels. The teachers here are treated like shit and have to vote for the PAP or risk getting sacked. Joyful? what is that bs? A girl in my school committed suicide last year for not doing well in her end of years. Most of us go to school purely because our friends are there. Our system may have high scores, but trust me, nobody here is avtually motivated
Yeah, and testing is such a huge deal here, when I was in Secondary school we had tests like every week. Students get streamed at a young age of 12, and in Finland, testing only occurs every few years; they advocate creativity instead of forcing the students to do well. And most of the stuff they teach us are irrelevant anyways.
+Anon Y. Mous not to mention the government is so freakin good at putting up a facade. They make it look like Singapore is such a perfect place. "Garden City" "best education" blah blah blah. I pity people who fall for these lies
+golden_music P.H.Y (Musicka) It's just like North Korea with a prettier veil covering it's dark side. But on the inside, you'll see propaganda everywhere.
They didn't show secondary school students, I wondered if they would smile like how primary school students did. Me myself is a secondary school student and I would say a big NO
Rahul S because it Is the same as having a job with projects everyday (homework) and a deadline of 1day to 4days it Is really stressful for us students
@@deadghosts2706 this is to get u prepared for the world. U think the adult world is full of rainbows? Strawberry gen is over. Here comes the toufu gen. Sg is doomed.
That's EXACTLY my point. Glad you finally realized it after all these time wasted. Your calling these videos propaganda and lies is EXACTLY why I'm replying to all the negative comments. The negative comments itself are biased view of what really happened in Singapore. You are taking the extreme view that these "truths" are not to be believed and only your opinion is the correct one.
I really feel like this video takes an unbiased approach to the Singaporean education system. Completely objective reporting. Like still fucking water.
School is ok and some of the things that we learn are actually helpful, like critical and logical thinking. It’s just that sometimes I break down from the stress and cry. But other than that I actually kinda enjoy it
+Krieger Helton dude, get a grip. what do you get out of bashing SG's education system? a sense of accomplishment in your sad, pathetic life? maybe you should get a job that you deserve. (the one that this "shitty ass" education got for you)
please lor this is wayang ttm. i remember once in jc when there was this person from moe coming to inspect our gp class, our beloved teacher even made us "rehearse" the lesson the day before.
each person had to understand that education is very important more so everyone has problems but education is very important on this planet education education must understand each person
From Singapore here. Can I please know which schools in Singapore teach like what Mrs. Weingarten was shown and same to what was verbalized? Creative, enquiring and trustful environment, etc. I really want my son to go to such a school. At the moment he goes to a school with loads of rote learning, no creativity, and several teachers who have really poor skills in dealing with children.
I think through these comments here, many criticize the system, but think of it in a different perspective, without this system, will we be as hardworking or kiasu as we r now? These traits build a better sgrean. But again if you look at it from another perspective, there are cons in this system, so really, depends on how you see it, just be flexible and put yourselves in others shoes.
I feel, the educational system must be judged on the basis of what kind of human beings( benovalant, creative & hardworking folks) they eventually create. As a country, it seems Japan, Denmark, other Scandinavian countries, Canada & newzealand have achieved this.
top universities all over the world recruit professors & scientists from rat-race education system like china and india where meritocratic selection yield the best of the best out of billions.
@@pepelepew1227 I am not sure about other parts of the world, but in the US, top universities require professors to produce a lot of meaningful scientific papers before hiring. Yes, there are loads of Asian and Indian professors, but they also make a large portion of the world population. A few years ago at my work, we hired someone from Tsinghua Uni. We processed the visa and everything, but once she joined, she showed little to no interest in her new job. Later she mentioned that she worked hard to get a job in California because it was her dream to live in LA, but once she got the job, she lost all motivation. We had to send her to another state because there was no need of her in our branch. Another Vietnamese peer got fired because he did not communicate with the other team about something very serious. The company lost a chunk of money in that project because he wanted his team to get to the target before the other team. There are many other incidents.
Hmmmm... Sure. We're really good at teaching our students in terms of reading, math and science. But what else? Most of our youth have absolutely no clue about what it means to be a politically- and socially-aware member of society. Students lack civic and social education. Ask a random Singaporean youth about global affairs and more often than not, they'll be stumped. The government and education ministry prizes economically-relevant skills above all else. Nothing else matters.
Some schools in Singapore are not as strict though. Not all of us strive to get all As, or totally love going to school. We do spend sometime fooling around sometimes but also do become serious when necessary.
Lot of stress for which result? Do they have a better life than us in France at the end? I had a fabulous childhood, my teenager years were so cool, and my adult life has good work / private life balance
I viewed this video because I wanted to see what schools are doing outside of the USA. Wanted something to compare our public education system too. (worried about my kids)
this video is obviously incongruous with much of our own experiences. Much of my own experience in primary school was suffused with PSLE this and PSLE that. The very fact that the video shows high tec boards does little to alter the fundamental aspect of education: route memorisation of algortihms and their applications.
Anyone notice how they FORGOT about secondary school? Maybe it has something to do with how environment in sec sch is different than pri sch, which is what this video has mostly shown?
I agree with you. It does seem pointless to argue with those truly ignorant. It is better to take action against those of an inhuman sadistic nature--anyway you can.
She implies Singapore not focusing on tests is a good thing. She also stated in the beginning Singapore has better education than US. This based on TEST.
I must point out that education in the united states differs across the country by the state and even from town to town. But one thing is true across the board: the direction in which education heads towards is fraught with political correctness and political incentives, as in Singapore.
These comparisons are relative. Some education systems give the students the same assignment over and over until they are perfect at it...therefore, always 100% scores.
From the comments here, I can tell self-criticism is a national past time in Singapore
And this, to be honest, is what I find truly interesting about the social dynamic here. As we Singaporeans are willing to reflect and criticise the apparent flaws even in a decent-enough system, is what drives our people to improve and refine it to a greater degree. This is actually evident in the education system here, which has undergone serious fundamental changes since the 1990s, from a highly banded, elitist and draconian system that bred a 'lost generation' of students whom struggled in the class strata based on exam grades alone, to a now more holistic approach with greater appreciation for 'beyond-the-exam-grades' skills in the 21st century. And as a Singaporean, I truly am rather appreciative of this, even if serious errors and cracks remain existent.
This is all true, it is good for us, and is critical (forgive the pun) for us to progress further. The self criticism is closely tied with our highly held virtue of modesty or humility.
But my purpose is to begin conversation that we ourselves realise this tendency is not shared by many advanced nations. This becomes important when we communicate, and compete with others.
Especially with Americans, they take things very literally, and they come from an opposite culture of self-promotion. Having interacted with many Americans at work and socially, it took a few times for them to mention: "why do you guys have no confidence?" before I realised this our national trait. They interpret self effacement and modesty as a lack of confidence, or a self admitted lack of quality of our products.
There is a lesson in this, that while we quietly expect others to see quality inherent in us or our products, we are living in a competing world of self promotion. Our overseas efforts can be much more effective if we realise this trait, whether it be exports, or services, or just cultural influence.
All we have to do is to look at the disproportionate size of Korean soft power, and we can realise this particular difference in our cultures. The South Koreans are not unique in this. If we look at Japan, Hongkong etc. we can start seeing our trait of over-modesty a little better.
@@keffinsg constructive criticism towards yourself is ok and stuff, but I think what he's trying to say, is that you guys tend to not deliver it in a constructive way so to foreigners it looks like insulting yourself instead of over-modesty
Never underestimate the Singaporeans ability to complain
Watching this video alone makes me itch glad I was born in Africa where my father has a lot of land to feed an entire generation.
Edit: Life is simple but we insist on making it complicated.
Teachers just “act kind” in front of the cameras
For example my teacher is so damn fierce and if a teacher comes in she acts kind
Yeah my teacher hit me when I forgot to hand in my homework
aww boo hoo. i stand behind the flag every morning
"Class, please STAND UP when teacher walks in."
I remember doing that when I was growing up in Singapore. Now I live in Canada.
Thank god, the Singaporean education system is really very shitty and overrated. Hope you find peace in Canada, fuck the Singapore education system fr
@The Ultimate T-rex i agree its fucked lol why serve for a nation that contributed nothing for you
@The Ultimate T-rex good luck, but do your research as well. don't leave for the sake for leaving. u gotta research on good places to emigrate to.
@The Ultimate T-rex come to India
@The Ultimate T-rex left singapore yet? i heard fruit pickers are in short supply in australia and dishwashers are quitting in america.
"Class, we have visitor today, you ALL BETTER BEHAVE!"
"YES Teacher!"
Moses GTC lol exactly what my cher did
Moses GTC ikr (¬_¬)
Yup ikr, the teachers always do that. Like when you go on a learning journey when, the discipline master will like keep reminding us about behaving well in public which is kinda annoying .
omg so truw
Moses GTC lmao my teacher when moe came
Singapore standards are:
A = Average
B = Bad
C = Cannot have dinner
D = Don't come home
F = Find a new family
Are people happy?
+itsme Rebecca typically yes. But Singaporean complaints a lot.
+itsme Rebecca not that bad. We do enjoy self-criticisms though.
not true
Thats just Asia.
Singaporean here. My cousin queued for what many perceive as a top kindergarten in Singapore from the moment she found out she was pregnant. My sister in law signed her kids up for Mandarin tuition for a famed Mandarin tutor from when they were 3 because by the time the kids are 7, it would be impossible to get a slot with her. But those are their choices. I chose to put my kids in kindergartens that didn’t need queueing up, but where I perceived the kids enjoyed learning. My youngest was placed in MOE Kindergarten which is surprisingly good & learned to be very independent and creative as a thinker. What they learned there is very different from the kindergartens his older brothers attended which were fun but yet more academically driven.
For Primary school, my experiences with the so-called top schools were bad. I felt the neighbourhood schools were more focused on student welfare and the teachers were more passionate about educating the kids. The top schools were more focused on their reputation and their ego & kids fell through the gap. Although we no longer rank schools, the culture persists. Independent sites rank them and parents still pick schools with this misguided notion that a top school is better, that neighbourhood school kids are lesser than a kid from a top school. Well, I beg to differ and will share why. Plus money and better grades does not make you a better person.
My kids were bullied in top schools mainly because they are good natured and kind. Two of them went through school changes for that reason.
Eldest was in a neighbourhood school nearby and was one of their top pupils. Another girl and him were the first kids in the school to be streamed to the gifted stream. He had to switch schools as a result and he chose a renown all boys school coz my dad attended it in his childhood and he is v close to my dad. Sadly, he was bullied so badly & within half a year he would lie catatonic in bed and refuse to go to school. He grew disinterested in school and life. He was an introvert who kept the cards close to his chest so he did not complain & told us nothing. God is good and a kind & concerned parent of his classmate reached out to tell me how the teacher gave him a debilitating nickname (Baby J) as he was small and cute… which caused the kids to bully him as a herd from day 1. There were many instances of bullying. He was suicidal and depressed at age 10 and we made the decision to pull the plug on his journey in the gifted education stream & placed him back in the neighbourhood school in the regular stream. It wasn’t that he couldn’t cope academically… he enjoyed that… but socially and emotionally he had been broken. We told him he is smart but not because the ministry of education said so. He is smart because God blessed him with a good mind. So we told the govt we wanted to take him out and it took a meeting with the officials, psychologist from. the ministry, the school principal and head of department for it to happen. It took intensive counselling and he healed up but I can see how it has made him angrier than before.
My eldest did well and got into a good secondary school here which was part of a full school (has both primary and secondary school). My friends said the principal then was good. It is a full school (has both primary and secondary school) so we placed our younger son in it so the two older boys could be together. But the principal changed & with it, the culture changed.
The parents of the kids in his class were really nice, but their kids were (sadly) spoilt and mean. We wasted no time once we felt our spider senses tingle and took our middle child out in Primary 2 and placed him in a neighbour school that many perceive to be lousy. But that I explored since our youngest’ kindergarten was located in it, and it was a surprise!
The enrolment for this school was so poor because of public assumption. That meant the classroom size is small. Plus, it turned out that they have an excellent principal and teachers.
The school care so deeply for their kids, the students are super happy learners and kind, class sizes are small & they teach growth mindset lessons. We placed him there because the neighbourhood school near us (that his elder brother was from) was full since we switched him mid way. It was a blessing. He is dyslexic and the school Teachers here patiently help him and they placed him in a pilot class for students struggling with Mandarin- which both of the other schools didn’t have. His confidence in the language is better. He still isn’t great at it but he doesn’t hate the subject anymore. The school he was in formerly was a SAP school which focused a lot on Mandarin.
The youngest is now in the neighbourhood school the eldest was from which is a short walk away. He wanted to be with my middle child but we decided because they would only be in the same school for 3 years, it was better to place the youngest in the nearer school so that when he started attending extracurricular classes in upper primary, he would be able to come home faster and rest more. Again we were blessed coz the school identified he has issues with attention (although he can understand his lessons, he fidgets a lot) & placed him in a pilot scheme: a classroom setting where initially specialised teachers coached him in skills to communicate and focus better for two subjects, then blended him back into the main class later on in the year. He is a happy learner and is enjoying school a lot.
I look back at my own education which was in one of the top all girls school here (miserable too) & at my kids’ education journey, and I can say for certain that the neighbourhood schools have given my children a more balanced and happy education. When kids are happy, they do better. Top schools and gifted education do not always mean your kids do better. Better to equip and care for them emotionally first and nurture better EQ, then build on that educationally. That way they have a better ability to cope as it gets harder and creative play helps them think out of the box & come at education with more passion and less one track mind thinking.
wow im sure westerners like your comment very much.
i went to a top 20 full school and in time i will strive to put my kids in similar top schools as well unless the world changes to paying more those with high eq.
the day singapore adopts western complacency, the island dies.
All head knowledge and no heart in society brings out the worst in us. You know where you are.
BS, Singapore school is very results, exam oriented. Kids are been streamed as young as 8 years old.
*10. There are foundation streams for academically weaker students to go to at 10. As if the schools have to discriminate those students at such a young age.
fuusha 99 thats my school . Whats even worse is , they force us to go for extra classes as long as 4 to 6 hours. Im lucky that shit is over . Now I just hope sutdents can have a better life than me
fuusha 99 in my school the stream us when we are in p3 (9) but they put u into foundation classes in p6(12)
I think the point was the main focus isn't the testing, like here the whole school year revolves around those tests, their funding depends on it, (wierd because if your not testing well, you probably need more help), and the children are no longer learning much anything beyond those tests and it's sad, I've watched the education system plummet in the past 30 yrs I've seen myself... All you have to do is follow the money and policy to see where our priorities are, we're the only advanced nation behind in many things, like paid parental leave, paid vacation sick or medical advances ,(unless you have the money. Our jobs offer things, but we take a cut in pay to receive them there for paying for it ourselves we don't show that our priorities are family, or a quality life, we spend more time revolving around our jobs, although income has been the same since the 70's although productivity raised high, we're very backwards and power greed driven in our policy and priorities, we reward power addicts and demonize haedworking people struggling to make it needing help. When businesses started giving themselves 700% raises plus huge bonuses with the profits and stopped reinvesting in the workers who otherwise the business wouldn't exist, so they could buy the products and have a healthy economy
Yup! Just like in US
The reason why education works in Singapore, is because it's just extremely competitive. I lived there.
What do you mean?
@@TheFactsMan bro, we're talking about 10 year olds already stressing about exams
testing is such a huge deal here, you have multiple tests every week or day. especially in secondary school and junior college. its just another asian country at the end of the day after all.
It depends on your school I get 2-3 tests each month and exams is on September for only 3 days
Sad but true, a single test result could change your whole future.
Every week there are 2 or more tests, it is amazing. I am not capable to summarise all the points that hamper the efficiency of learning here. Yes many pupils may do well in collecting points.
I agree with you - although it is a necessary evil as SG relies on manpower - her people as a sole resource to keep the nation relevant in an increasingly competitive global scene. Heck, just PISA will tell you Shanghai is trashing us flat, when they actually have more students that our minuscule excuse of a nation. I amuse at your analogy of us being "another Asian country" though, which is precisely a stereotype (positive one) that really makes us rather untouchably more professional than any other cultures in the world. But mind you - Asia is large. What you (assuming you're an American) might be referring to might be East Asians in particular.
And as a JC 2 student this year (an equivalent of Year 12, High School 3rd), I am preparing for the GCSEs throughout November and it is one hell of a 'mugging' session, what we term locally as being intense studying. Tests everyday to polish our recalling abilities, weed off recurrent errors and insecurities, and just physical fatigue each day. Nonetheless, it is a process that I still can enjoy (quite masochistic, ain't I?) with the knowledge that it can lead me to a better future, at least. With a level of guarantee and security. Plus me being a little bit of an oddball unlike the large majority of Singaporeans who are 'below' me according to the highly demeaning 'bell curve' education system, tests and exams to me are just another set of practices again and again, albeit with a more serious context to them.
I lived outside of Singapore many years and have attended schools in both Asian and the US. So i know first hand what the pros and cons are. When my children reached schooling age, I moved my family back to Singapore solely because of our education system and have never regretted the decisions.
Good for u.
Such a wonderful parent! Putting your children in an education system where stress is Paramount
Anant Sharma im mpvong to singapore fuck. I will have to prepare some stress handling pills.
I did exactly the opposite. After three years in the local system, I ran away with my children to give them better education.
Kevin Lee Ur a fucking idiot
"Whether i like or don't like you, you just need to like me" and "don't make your problem my problem" are a few of my math teacher's favourite phrases
1: they first develop teachers that are worthy of respect and authority.
2: they then create an environment that reinforces respect for others, community, and country.
3: now that they have established expectations and social norms, much of the friction and obstacles that inhibit learning are removed. This creates a clean canvas to learn on.
Most of the differences between our education systems is behavioral rather than monetary or procedural.
Allen Heiner Right and very much needed in a multiracial, multi religious country with nothing but human resources in 700sq km
Srsly, I just cant express how relatable some of d comments here are. This video is clearly a form of propaganda, meant to portray Singapore's education as 'perfect' when it's really less den perfect. Any student in Singapore will understand d stress they face in d importance of education results as any of these will actually affect d child's future n career. Life is just too stressful here. N I can say dat as I'm a overly stressed student dat constantly thinks of suicide n ways just to escape from stress here.
Dont u get it. The brainwashed idiots who are parents and teachers, are infecting this comment section.
Yea 100% agreed. All those idiots who keep saying we're ungrateful are indoctrinated and hopeless.
Anon Y. Mous We need an antivirus against them.
+Krieger Helton
Let them be, when they grow up and get some generic job that requires you to work for the whole day with low pay, they'll still be happy with their lives. If they want to be robots then they can robots.
honestly idc about my grades... but I still do well on all my tests
LMFAO. Not all Primary and secondary schools have such a high budget where they can use smart boards or even laptops . Also, all students are subjected to standardized testing which if they fail they would get my supplementary classes which would be counterproductive since almost everyday the student will feel stress for the next test , homework and even projects since they will have less time to devote to these tasks .
My school( Nanyang Primary School) Does not have such stuff. White board,markers& paper and pen
dylan.wangs the laptops in beacon primary school are the children's oen laptop.and as beacon primary school is the first future school,of course the need technology
ikr
dylan.wangs my school provides free printing services and laptops
Well now all students have PLDS
I am a HKer and an Australian teacher. Australians value relationships more than achievement, hence teachers have to tip toe around if they want to tell a parent a child is under performing and often, not tell the whole truth. Parents also get upset if told their child is under performing, blaming the teacher or school, rather than get their child to work harder or wiser. These are very noticeable difference between education in Asia and Australia.
i dont tell my mom that i got paddled at school. were i that stupid, i would get an extra paddling at home. parents here trust teachers more than their own kids.
Education in Hong Kong and Singapore is just more organized and systematized for standardized teaching. It doesn't mean it is better way to teach our kids.
Complete agreed.
The parents and kids are also more focused on academic achievement in HK and Singapore.
Agreed
Teachers are most important person for all over the stage in our life . Straightly A to Z .
No parents are
Hahaha...wish this lady came to the neighborhood school where I did a stint of relief teaching...sheer pandemonium...
i am impressed that they chose a very neighbourhood school. bear in mind to all critics.. this is a very real common education system that not rich children goes to.. unlike those top schools that the rich sent to. so.. yes.. very accurate assessment of the education where 80% of people had here.
Well bk Singpore school standards are
A:good/excellent/band1
B:average /band2
C:band 3/just past etc 50-60 marks.
D: a failure. Anyways i live in singapore:)like if u dont or agree?
It is stressful to be a student here, even in primary school. For Primary Schoo Leaving Exam, the 6th graders are tested on what they learn from 3rd / 4th grade upwards, and sometimes the questions can be confusing, esp when it comes to Maths. And then it gets easy in the 1st year in secondary school, but in 3rd year, there was a great increase of what they learnt from 2nd yeae, but then in 4th year, there werw much more students gotta learn because there will be O levels at end of year. they were expected to capture fast in case they get left behind. If i am not wrong, O levels at end of 4th year includes what they learn in the earlier years. This can be stressful, not only with the large amount of content in each subject they have to remember, but also the number of subjects they have to handle. And the students are expected to achieve an A or at least B in all subjects.
dbm 4794 its not so bad lah. Yes a lot of students are "kiasu" but its because they want the best in their kids. I would know, I live here and a lot of my classmates have tuition because of theor parents. But, that being said, there are multiple pathways for the students to make it. Of course I'm not disagreeing with the fact that it is very stressful during exam season with the PSLE and O/N levels and that needs to be inproved on but at the end of the day, humans are the only resource Singapore has. So of course its gotta have this stressful highly competitive environment, and honestly I'm lucky that my parents dont care whether i get A or B, they care about whether I actually put in effort to do my best so I guess that helps me out a bit in terms of MY stress level and some my friends are the same. Honestly right, my class doesnt really care bout exams at all. Joking around all the time in class and then laugh at their horrible results in SA2, SA1 you know? And I dont know whether if it happens in other schools but my school just has a bunch of stuff like lunchtime concerts every once in a while by students, like it releives a bit of stress and having a lot of fun cheering on ya schoolmates and classmates and the ccas that wanted to perform for the concert. But from my own personal life, i actually didnt find our educational system that stressful. :)
Sorry at the beginning i meant parents are kiasu XD. Never type properly
dbm 4794 Well, I guess it depends on schools and parents. I personally don't find the system so stressful. Not everyone view exams as something to stress over about, especially one of my classmates who actually wanted to fail every single subject. He passed one so he was pretty upset about that. 😂
Haha...I felt that PSLE and Primary School was easy, but when I came to Sec 1, I started gaming and boom, my results dropped really low😂😂👌
Just one mistake. Its called PRIMARY 1,2,3,4,5,6 and SEC 1,2,3,4,5
I would prefer if you people not post such negative comments. Yes, you might want to voice out your own opinions, but do not use vulgarities. Also, respect your own country, be proud that you are a Singaporean and are given a good education. There are many other people out there who do not have an opportunity to have an education. You will understand one day why teachers require you to do so much homework, you will eventually learn that it will be of benefit in the future.
Be thankful and as
The way they teach maths are excellent and is used in the new educational system here in the Philippines.
she didnt see the p5/6 students. shame, cause thats where all hell lives
Totally true
Natale Tan Oh dear... you haven't seen IB before have you.
+Kris Low lol IB is not singapore's doing. take your garbage and complain somewhere else.
Carole Lim woahhh ive never seen someone as grumpy as you before. And on the first day of CNY? Com' on sis. Actually it kinda is. IB is a program leading up to a diploma. Its similar to any type standardised test- be it sats, Os, As, PSLE. It is just what you make of it. IB is supposed to be a program that develops a person's character and cements their love for learning but certain IB schools in Singapore have taken the A level direction to the already tedious and strenous program - resulting into a hellpit for the students. Cheers! And dont reply
P1-Heaven
P2-Gates of heaven
P3-Drop down
P4-Nearing hell
P5-Gates of hell
p6-Hell
I don't know why with all the negativity on Singapore education system. As a Malaysian, I see Singapore's education system and the whole operations of nurturing whilst educating the young ones as an amazing work. The proof of the excellent education system in Singapore is you yourself. Your country has had huge development in all aspects especially economic and education..
Talk to the secondary school to junior collage students then you will understand why
The negativity are mainly from disgruntled Singaporean students who who rather work in a garment sweatshop or collect scrap plastic from garbage heap.
@@NewmaticKe coz people aren't grateful, even though they have what they need. They look for thing to be dissatisfied about and complain
@@deadghosts2706 talk to the 6 year rubber tapper in Myanmar, 7 year old plastic scavenger in Philippines and the 8 year garment factory worker in Bangladesh......then you will know.
Students in Singapore are mostly raised with married parents, very respectful to elders and teachers.
In Singapore both teachers and students are working hard, many singaporean continue to speak singlish and adulterated language
That's right, and as this video showed, educators all over the world are coming to Singapore to learn the system.
Singapore government always believe that the key to have a developed country is to start from young means through education. Therefore Singapore government always emphasize a lot in our education. Lack of sleeps have affect our young ones health
Indeed. Lack of sleep cripple students focus. Whats even worse is that teachers expect u to stay alert even with the underminded sleep.
I’m Sure in Primary School, everyone should not be having lack of sleep. Even so, in Secondary school, people complain about too “much” homework when it’s their own fault they can’t finish because they procrastinate. They will then blame MOE for not giving them enough sleep. I can understand that in order to maintain or get good results in Uni, Yo I have to sleep late every night
Singapore don’t have natural resources of course we have to be good at something else.
6:05 "You didn't hear about test-based learning" hahaha key-phrase is 'you didn't hear'. Just because you didn't hear about it doesn't mean it's not true.
Nobody is passionate or defending anything. As this video showed, educators all over the world come here to Singapore to learn. Respect that.
India should move to this type of education teaching, not to make a student employed but smart enough to have a knowledge and make one tension free of obstacles and face it through the excitement knowledge they have........ Shreya, Hope so India would progress.
It is heartening to see someone inspired by our system, but I sincerely feel that the amount of effort and intensity our nation puts to the system is highly demanding, and would require an insane amount of logistic cost, manpower cost, feasibility tests and all sorts of redtape and loopholes to work in India, such a colossal nation of over a billion people. It would be good to see a few cities adopt this first, albeit the concern being the insane inequality that would result from the disparity in quality of education between the cities and the villages...if India can even initiate such a pilot to begin with.
Memorization and corporal punishment. India has those two things already.
Mujtahid Haque - corporal punishment is legal in singapore schools as well. It's never reported by the media.
Nope singapore students are mostly only good at doing tests. True story
Anup Pandey money
Great job , hope this form of education applied around the world
video: "We focus more on collaboration."
PSLE, O level, A level, N level: "Am I a joke to you!?"
haha xD SURE!!! my teacher actually tells us how to behave when a teacher is coming for inspection xD
I works due to splitting stream. Not necessarily a bad/good thing, depends on how you look at it. Singapore follows a meritocracy system where students with better abilities are valued more than students with weaker abilities (which is normal in Asia, after all).
I'm a Singaporean, feel that Finland's system is much better. However, the education system should be adapted based on the local situation. e.g. China's stressful education system would not work well in the UK, UK's slower paced system would make Chinese students not have the will to learn more (as in Chinese education system they are kind of "forced" to learn to "have a good future").
Btw just visit a JC to understand 'test-based accountability'
Great good work so interesting 😘
🙋teacher 👍Sri Lanka
Be thankful, Singapore children. Because you've got the best education.😊 As for me ?? At school I don't have the facilities and the good education system in Indonesia.😳
Nah bruh it’s stressful as heck.
the pressure to excel doesnt come from the education system. its from societal and familial pressures.
Singapore gets the same results that Finland but with a more stressful system. And USA is so interested. LOL.
I am actually jealous of the Finnish system. I prefer their system.
Nigeria should buckle up. This is what 21St century education is. Education allocation in budget should increase.
no tests? I think you guys are forgetting about the PSLE, O-levels, A-levels, and if you do badly N-levels. The teachers here are treated like shit and have to vote for the PAP or risk getting sacked. Joyful? what is that bs? A girl in my school committed suicide last year for not doing well in her end of years. Most of us go to school purely because our friends are there. Our system may have high scores, but trust me, nobody here is avtually motivated
Yeah, and testing is such a huge deal here, when I was in Secondary school we had tests like every week. Students get streamed at a young age of 12, and in Finland, testing only occurs every few years; they advocate creativity instead of forcing the students to do well. And most of the stuff they teach us are irrelevant anyways.
+Anon Y. Mous It's just sad isn't it?
+Anon Y. Mous not to mention the government is so freakin good at putting up a facade. They make it look like Singapore is such a perfect place. "Garden City" "best education" blah blah blah. I pity people who fall for these lies
+golden_music P.H.Y (Musicka)
It's just like North Korea with a prettier veil covering it's dark side. But on the inside, you'll see propaganda everywhere.
+golden_music P.H.Y (Musicka)
If I ever have children I would never let them grow up here, think of how damaging all of this is.
I hope our country comes first in Education
They didn't show secondary school students, I wondered if they would smile like how primary school students did. Me myself is a secondary school student and I would say a big NO
Why No?
Rahul S because it Is the same as having a job with projects everyday (homework) and a deadline of 1day to 4days it Is really stressful for us students
Really? Why so? Please tell
@@deadghosts2706 this is to get u prepared for the world.
U think the adult world is full of rainbows?
Strawberry gen is over. Here comes the toufu gen.
Sg is doomed.
Secondary school students will just death stare at the camera cuz they aren’t that naive anymore and they know it’s for propaganda
That's EXACTLY my point. Glad you finally realized it after all these time wasted. Your calling these videos propaganda and lies is EXACTLY why I'm replying to all the negative comments. The negative comments itself are biased view of what really happened in Singapore. You are taking the extreme view that these "truths" are not to be believed and only your opinion is the correct one.
the reasons for being the best in education are: good quality students, good quality teachers, seriousity and fairness.
I wish our government in India would make Education and Healthcare a topmost priority.
I really feel like this video takes an unbiased approach to the Singaporean education system. Completely objective reporting. Like still fucking water.
School is ok and some of the things that we learn are actually helpful, like critical and logical thinking. It’s just that sometimes I break down from the stress and cry. But other than that I actually kinda enjoy it
Back in my day, all we had was the OHP.
Ah well I do love living in Singapore, I don't think the studying is too stressful
If u graduated already, attend it again and see what im talkin bout.
I am still in the system.
+Krieger Helton dude, get a grip. what do you get out of bashing SG's education system? a sense of accomplishment in your sad, pathetic life? maybe you should get a job that you deserve. (the one that this "shitty ass" education got for you)
Carole Lim Dude.. Dont go around accusing people of having a sad life.. Seriously, thats not cool at all.. What the fuck..
Carole Lim You are fucking butthurt, calm down.. As far as I remember, I dont go around insulting people unless they start doing it first..
gotta admit no matter how hard it is its for our own good. current jc1 who is struggling to even pass mid years
Wow. Just wonderful
Just pay teachers more and get rid of standardized tests. It's not that hard.
Even though Singapore takes standardized tests very seriously.
We are pressured a lot since 7 years old, 5 days of School, 7 - 9 hours a day
please lor this is wayang ttm. i remember once in jc when there was this person from moe coming to inspect our gp class, our beloved teacher even made us "rehearse" the lesson the day before.
Thanks for sharing
each person had to understand that education is very important more so everyone has problems but education is very important on this planet education education must understand each person
From Singapore here.
Can I please know which schools in Singapore teach like what Mrs. Weingarten was shown and same to what was verbalized? Creative, enquiring and trustful environment, etc.
I really want my son to go to such a school. At the moment he goes to a school with loads of rote learning, no creativity, and several teachers who have really poor skills in dealing with children.
all the sh*t schools teach like that
😂
your kids will have a lot of fun though.
I think through these comments here, many criticize the system, but think of it in a different perspective, without this system, will we be as hardworking or kiasu as we r now? These traits build a better sgrean. But again if you look at it from another perspective, there are cons in this system, so really, depends on how you see it, just be flexible and put yourselves in others shoes.
I'm seriously impressed 😉
I feel, the educational system must be judged on the basis of what kind of human beings( benovalant, creative & hardworking folks) they eventually create. As a country, it seems Japan, Denmark, other Scandinavian countries, Canada & newzealand have achieved this.
top universities all over the world recruit professors & scientists from rat-race education system like china and india where meritocratic selection yield the best of the best out of billions.
@@pepelepew1227 I am not sure about other parts of the world, but in the US, top universities require professors to produce a lot of meaningful scientific papers before hiring. Yes, there are loads of Asian and Indian professors, but they also make a large portion of the world population.
A few years ago at my work, we hired someone from Tsinghua Uni. We processed the visa and everything, but once she joined, she showed little to no interest in her new job. Later she mentioned that she worked hard to get a job in California because it was her dream to live in LA, but once she got the job, she lost all motivation. We had to send her to another state because there was no need of her in our branch.
Another Vietnamese peer got fired because he did not communicate with the other team about something very serious. The company lost a chunk of money in that project because he wanted his team to get to the target before the other team.
There are many other incidents.
Btw there are secondary school students hidden in this vid that u can't notice
0:13 0:16
5:08 : Tampines Sec students in the bg
man i kinda regret not learning well in a sg school system
Hmmmm... Sure. We're really good at teaching our students in terms of reading, math and science. But what else? Most of our youth have absolutely no clue about what it means to be a politically- and socially-aware member of society. Students lack civic and social education. Ask a random Singaporean youth about global affairs and more often than not, they'll be stumped. The government and education ministry prizes economically-relevant skills above all else. Nothing else matters.
well, most Americans can't tell where is Canada on the map.
those without economically-relevant skills are leeching off welfare. you think the lees will allow the complacency of a nanny state?
Some schools in Singapore are not as strict though. Not all of us strive to get all As, or totally love going to school. We do spend sometime fooling around sometimes but also do become serious when necessary.
Oh yea like the sec sch gangster
Lot of stress for which result? Do they have a better life than us in France at the end? I had a fabulous childhood, my teenager years were so cool, and my adult life has good work / private life balance
I live in the US, but I hope to find a job and raise a family in SIngapore soon...seems like the best country on earth right now..
It has pro's and cons
#1 con
Long working hours
Stressful education system
No affordable landed housing like in usa
I viewed this video because I wanted to see what schools are doing outside of the USA. Wanted something to compare our public education system too. (worried about my kids)
thank you so much
Wayang... #1
Huh. Why are the rankings in this and the one on Finland different and it's for the same year of 2009?
it has to do with Confucians culture in the Sinosphere. also good government policies to support teachers .
I'm tired.. All my classmates are just getting As.. And I have to do the same T^T
this video is obviously incongruous with much of our own experiences. Much of my own experience in primary school was suffused with PSLE this and PSLE that. The very fact that the video shows high tec boards does little to alter the fundamental aspect of education: route memorisation of algortihms and their applications.
Today future our kid must learn...
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"Wow, fantastic" is a North American reaction to anything. It should be reserved for anything really special.
"You're 13, you are an adult, act like it."
Lol Singapore in reading, we must had too much “xia” when we ended the sentence lol
Anyone notice how they FORGOT about secondary school? Maybe it has something to do with how environment in sec sch is different than pri sch, which is what this video has mostly shown?
OMG! Tampines Primary School! I saw my friends!
US has historically divested in our public education systems since the 70's & neoliberal economics.
I agree with you. It does seem pointless to argue with those truly ignorant.
It is better to take action against those of an inhuman sadistic nature--anyway you can.
Sec sch don't use models anymore, use algreba, they use models in early sec 1 before going into sec 1 algebra and continuing algebra
There is no hint of testing fixation? as a prior singaporean student, I disapprove.
how can I apply for a teacher position in Singapore?
I wanna see how in Shanghai the school system and life.
She implies Singapore not focusing on tests is a good thing. She also stated in the beginning Singapore has better education than US. This based on TEST.
Singapore: small population and small area to cover (geographically). The ideal case study for america according to the list is shanghai
It is called Indoctrination--not education.
Don't you mean indoctrination?
That is what I thought. LOL
+moist faucet If u wrote something out of the box, you can say goodbye to your grades.
Krieger Helton Out of the box? Like how?
"How did the continents move?"
"Only God knows the answer."
Something like that?
How do u know?
How can I download this video clip?
Would you not clean your house if it were dirty before inviting a guest over?
This is awesome.
I really want to study at singapore . Nice education .
It is a living hell
If it’s a living hell, why am I surviving?
Be prepared to get caned in public and watch other people get caned.
Ok just prepare for hell because it is super stressful
shawn lim some fall through the crack and become stupid
In other countries children with disabilities are not counted in the statistic of school performance. They are counted in the US.
SUPERBLY REJOICE TO DROPOUT FROM SINGAPOOR.
I must point out that education in the united states differs across the country by the state and even from town to town. But one thing is true across the board: the direction in which education heads towards is fraught with political correctness and political incentives, as in Singapore.
Damn... Nvr had that fancy board when i was in primary sch :(
These comparisons are relative. Some education systems give the students the same assignment over and over until they are perfect at it...therefore, always 100% scores.