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Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Paper models ; System defects

L1R4 of 18 and a r5 of i dun remember, maybe 24 ? 23? i really do not remember. A rallying student aiming for the most unrealistic spots of education. But by far, the most deserved. I sat down wondering whether it was me that din swallow enough notes into my mouth to remember facts, practice more on sciences and math or me just being plain lazy.MAybe it was all of the above, but then again it struck me. What a basketcase our society had driven us students to be, paper models. Yes, models made out of paper not talent nor drive or passion. Sure, out of the many elites that get the good grades, they do what they do best and contribute to the present rotten and future lowered society. Is it not true that certain ways of the world are not determined by merit , but by talent? It is true that from time to time, merit performance is the prior representation of academic ability, but how is that concerned to the very fact that all are the same? Does the world not speak in term of wittyness, flair or creativity?

Now that itself is a system defect.We talk about equality in man and building a creative hub for more manpower to enter the workforce with critical thikning skills, idea and flair. BUt we also talk about academic merit. The idea of creativity is not in the fields of sciences or math or even english for the matter. It is flair, and that is something that cannot be cultivated through textbooks or highlighted guidelines from photocopied notes.

We need to create a significance between merit and talent. We explain that merit is an all rounder. That one that is weak in science can become an A student out of pure effort, but can that beat a budding scientist to be if he gets an A1 for science but doesn do better elsewhere? We claim that its a life skill because most of us only want to do what we're good at and exams of merit ensure that we work hard for everything just so that we can do what we want in future.

Paper models we are at this instant, The society has created for themselves existing inferiorities so to speak present in some or if i may say most of us. That, already is, a system defect.

Enjoy.




8/24/2005 12:08:00 AM



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