http://cameh.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/education-corporation/ a well-written and interesting entry on our education system. As I am still reading “What Happy Companies Know” by Dan Baker et al, I can’t help it but link the concepts and contrasts of businesses driven by fear vs that of love in our own education system.
Given the young impressionable minds who are going through our system geared towards winning competitions, for the majority who do not thrive on winning, it is reasonable to assume their motivator is fear. Fear of not winning, fear of not doing well comparatively, fear of not living up to the system standards. Then again, I might be over-generalizing and victimizing our youth too quickly with my opinions and views without proper statistics.
Hopefully, the highlighted badminton CCA (Co-Curricular activities) incident is just one of the minority incidents. It is fair to assume the parent who invested training for the 2nd son for badminton did it out of the child’s interest instead for the sake of the CCA system. Unfortunately, as system evolve, we are left to wonder if the original intention of CCA has turned into yet another metric serve to fuel unhealthy competition.
Even though our young society managed to enjoyed economic success in a short time, we really have to consider NOT engaging in things out of fear, but from appreciation and understanding why we are doing what we are doing.
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