The Moley Prophet

These days the government has been giving out a lot of autonomy to colleges in Singapore. Allowing them to adjust fees on their own and intake numbers. And in response, the colleges raised their fees. However, what we need is to allow educators to have more autonomy in the way they teach their students. For example, teachers should have the ability to plan the methods of teaching.

There are times when a student may be doing very well in a subject, but because of his disabilities in other subjects, he is placed in a class of students who may be week at the subject that he aces as well. This, would be a hindrance to his development.

Also, we encourage our students to be early for school, for lessons, or at least be punctual. However, in Singapore, you would hardly find teachers who do the same for their students. They would either delay the duration of lesson time, or even when they are done for that day, they just wouldn't allow their students to leave early. Part of this is due to school and government regulations, sometimes, inadvertently due to the pressure of parents to blame the school for events leading to the injury of their children. However, this is just another issue we have to look into.

We shouldn't allow the effects of one affect the others. If we do not want the students to waste our time, then, we should not waste the students' time. "Do unto others what you want others to do unto you"