Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Anonymous – I agree. We are still very Third World in many aspects.

Trev – Thanks for sharing that essay too.

George – I’m not blaming ALL parents, just a small minority who seem to have a disproportionate influence over teachers by their insistence on more homework/assessments. I agree that an entire revamp of not only our education system, but our entire culture may be necessary.

occasionally, there maybe some burst of creative expression though one can never be certain of its attribution.

but a city state that is run by convocation attires is akin to civil servants taking over the role of the mickey mouse and the donald ducks in disneyland.

it just kills the soul and robs the magic from the kingdom.

That’s called progress – we have to accept that our kids are getting smarter a lot faster due to the exposure that they getting…

But I agree that the overall system needs a complete overhaul – the schools are becoming more like factories churning out educated workers one after another…

And just like in any manufacturing process – adhering to the norm is the “key” to success i.e. lowest rejection rate…

However, they missed the whole point that the schools should not become like a sterile manufacturing plant else the process will kill creativity and individualism…

I like the sentence: If you don’t want to make mistakes you will not be creative. But who let us be creative? we live in a society where they tell you “you could have done it better..”. It doesn’t help, at least to me.

Demands are constantly being raised by MOE. Parents who have schooling children who are a couple of years in age apart (eg like me) know only too well the constant raising of the bar by MOE – what my older child learnt in sec 3 or 4 for example become sec 1 work when my younger child starts secondary school. And the subjects concerned range from Chinese to Maths! Talk about teaching less and learning more by the PM once upon a time!