Exam

Every time before my final exam is coming, I definitely will have a thousand ideas, reason or suggestion why exam should not be the measurement to measure the performance of a student, no matter a pupil, secondary student, undergraduate or post-graduate level.

I hate exam, yes it is, it makes me likes a study machine, non-stop. Many pupils has put most of their time in study, tuition class, or maybe piano class. But who really care what they need at that age actually? What their parent care is how many A they can get of their children, so that they can show to others how smart are their children, then in my opinion, children is just their property but not their children, if they really care about their children, then the parent should let them enjoy their childhood. The parent should bring them to zoo, if they want the children to know the different species; the parent should bring them to beach or countryside so that they are closer to natural, but not buries them in books! Terrible!

I’m fortunate enough that having an understanding mother, who never forced me to study. What she care is our moral value; she said that is no point if you get good results but you go and do some outlaw stuff. She will fully support me if I become a cleaner, as long as we have the right attitude and the correct behavior. It may sound ridiculous to some of you, but it is thankful to my mum so that my mind is not restricted by those so call ‘’education’’, I always come out with many opinion, and what I know isn’t merely get from textbook, but from the book that I bough, and my mother always support me to read more books others than textbook.

I was surprised when my friend said he had to go to tuition class for 7 days in a week, some more some of the day he is went to 2 tuition classes in a day! Oh my god! But somehow, the achievement that he achieve doesn’t seem great, because, even though I’m not study in those so-call ‘’smart class’’ (how could possible the ministry of education classified the students by smart or not smart) but I got a good result when I represent my school to participate in quiz competition, in fact, I m the only one who are from those’’ not smart’’ class to represent my school to participate in Daerah-level quiz competition, and I got the champion under many suspicious .I can see my class teacher almost cry when I go to see her, she told me that actually many teacher has actually doubt my ability to represent our school to that competition. From her eyes, I can see, she is proud of me. Hey I made it! So who said those students from not-smart class cannot perform well! Hey, hey, hey wake up!

Until my secondary school, I really sick of it, secondary school is actually the factory that produces the machine that call “study-machine” so that the machine can launch to market and working for those capitalist because our secondary school did not teach us to think or to judge something according to our self, you want an example? Ha ha, the best example is our moral subject. Why we have to memorize all the moral value with their definition together? If you define the moral value that not according to the definition that provided by the teacher, then your definition is wrong! Gosh! Didn’t it sound ridiculous!? I still remember I always argue with the teacher, but every time I got the same answer, just follow the instruction. That is why every time in moral class, I always make noise or rather walks out from the class to go somewhere as long as not in the class room! If you can memorize all the definition precisely from text book, does that mean you are a moral person? Arguable!

That is why I seldom went to class when I was form 5, I really hate the way of study, the only reason to make me went to the class is all my friends were there. In fact, the time that I spent in KINOKUNIYA is more then I spent in school! Because I can learn whatever I want to learn, and no one will force me to memorize what I have learn!

If Bertrand Russell (a British philosopher) is still alive, then I think he definitely will faint if he saw our education system! This is complete against what he advocates. What he suggest is let the student judge a fact by themselves, more ‘’independent thinking’’ rather than the teacher keep feeding the know ledges to the student. And he also suggests that the teacher or the lecturer should encourage the student to ask question and participate in discussion. He is right; our current education will kill the creativity of students! But what can we do?

I used to read an article which is very interesting, I would like to shred with you, that the article says that actually those student really able to move the whole library’s book into their mind, but the problem is they never open the book and read, because they just memorize it! So why so happy if you can memorize the entire book but did not understand it! May God bless you!

Now looking at my desk, full of notes that need to digest, really sick! Why shouldn’t I take a rest to express my unsatisfaction toward such thing!

October 27th, 2008 at 9:03 am