Today's educational output/products

This has been a hot debate topic many youngsters today whether to further or not and amongst those who taking their degree or tertiary educational stage. Is it today educational has just able to produce those “scholars” who know only how to read, memorize and sit for exam?

I believe we should look into the reason of study: whether it is for the purpose of brighter future with higher paid or for knowledge to upgrade a person mind and knowledge base.

For those who do well for the aim of getting better results for the future, whether it is healthy to working hard in reading and memorize the books again and again for exam is not a matter, the most important thing is to making sure the As in the result slip. Are we learning in a healthy educational structure, who cares…just get the “A”s will do…

For those who study with the objective of acquire knowledge, of course, they will think that students from the other side is nothing than a photocopy machines which photocopy everything inside the text book, lecturers’ views to the exam answer sheet. They could be no thinking process being taken apart from that…


After studying for so many years and experiences in looking for job recently, I conclude that it could be found to be caused by follows:

1. The requirements of the market
Whether on newspapers or on-line recruitment notice, there must be a qualification requirements, it is there since ancient times; because of the prevalence of college students, now in the qualifications may ask you to be on a certain level of results, it may be second upper, 3.2 or 3.5 of CGPA depends on the results and post that you look for.

2. National education system
Fostering young scholars with real thinking and analyst mindset and practical experience could be something impossible under our current education system. The current system requires students to remember all the theories, but not really in understand it and use it; students might not even have chance to practice it and try it.
We should look back to all former Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education’s backgrounds, the strategy and policies maker for our country’s education system, how many of them do have such background or understanding or relevance knowledge in education industry?

3.Social assessment on the degree of learning level
look around you and see how parents and those aunty and uncle assess their children or others children achievement in learning or their education. The most important and common part of that is how many “A”s have their children get in the exam and/or how many marks do they score out of 100%.