May 08, 2007

Spoon-feeding in SG's Schools?

Michaelk said:

Why does so much spoon-feeding take place, when all it does is to transform students into question-answering machines incapable of learning new subjects without help from other people? Shouldn’t TLLM be implemented in full by making teachers lesson facilitators instead of spoon-feeders? What is the point of spoon-feeding them in the first place, when the teachers know how competitive it can be in an institute of higher learning?

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And when they do read, their choice of reading materials will invariably be comics, graphic novels, manga.

Posted by ang kong books* on 10 May, 2007 - 4:31pm

And what is wrong with that? Time magazine placed Watchmen on its list of the 100 greatest english language novels (wikipedia). Manga is a large industry in America and Japan (manga readers do grow up to be manga artists sometimes, though the standard of manga in Singapore is dismal as of now).

I don't really think much some written works. Shakespeare for instance. Look at Merchant of Venice. How was it resolved? By a stupid technicality (my opinion). Macbeth? Written to boost the ego of a king who survived the gunpowder plot. If I weren't forced to study these two plays I'll be falling asleep when I read Shakespeare.

Posted by Anonymous Coward* on 10 May, 2007 - 6:35pm