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Ananova (25 Mar 2008) - Love Lessons Bid To Boost Birth Rate
I think Singapore has hit an all-time low with trying to teach love and romance as a subject in school to boost the current ailing birth rate. Didn't we already have SDU or something like that in place already? Was that not good enough?
It is quite pathetic that Singaporeans need to be taught how to say "Eh! Ai kia stay-dee mai?" to their prospective partners. I can see it now, typical Singapore students in clinical lecture/tutorial/workshop settings, studiously scribble study notes (exam will come out one, you know?) and mugging for the subsequent exams (Yay! I got A*! I can apply to go Raffles DunnoWhatRomance Institute then run for parliament under PAP's 25-men GRC. Wah... I ish Romantic Elite. Win liao!).
I think every single last morsel of any romance just died there and then.
As bad as this already is, I actually do have a bigger question.
WHICH FARKING STUPID KOTEK SCHOLAR ACTUALLY CAME UP WITH THE IDEA???
Reminds me of my NTU days where Entrepreneurship was actually taught as a subject. How the hell you teach something like that? Dr Kao, our lecturer, during that time probably also clueless to how to go about doing it. Instead, he sold us his book and used it as compulsory text. We learned absolutely nothing from that module but Dr Kao sure earn a tidy sum of money from there. Now that's entrepreneurship albeit damn bladdy kelong.
- Voxeros
the funny thing is, it entrepreneurship is being taught everywhere. I feel
that such things run in the blood, whether does the individual has the
passion and drive to work out a business, not anything you can get from
papers and theories...
my gawd, u actually took the entrepreneurship course?! I thought you were
already an entreprenuer then.
Winsor: If you ask me, I feel that entrepreneurship is a very
hands-on type of subject as the only way to learn is to get your hands and
feet into it and not some stupid lecture/tutorial bullshit. Perhaps, the
Gahmen could set up a grant for young entrepreneurs as seed money to couple
with the student's own equity to do a start-up and during the initial
period have the various industry experts to come in and provide a bit of
guidance?
ruok: It wasn't a module of choice. It was compulsory which is why I
have such a big beef with it. Lessons in Love, is a little bit like Lessons
in Entrepreneurship. You'd learn nothing if you don't go out there and
practice your craft.
Guess what, after 16 years or so, the course is still being taught in NTU.
ha. I'm gonna have to take them next sem. = S
I don't teach entrepreneurship or anything like that...but to be fair, I
think you need to look at what exactly they are teaching - are they
'telling' you how to be an entrepreneur (the 10 steps to effective
entrepreneurship), or are they giving you the skills and know-how of how to
develop entrepreneurial skills (the idea, the method, the environment
etcetc). the former, is probably pointless, the latter might be useful.
Ollie: It was BM334 for me but I doubt if it's the same module code
number after so many years.
Pam:' Sadly, it's the former. I can't remember most of it, if at
all but it goes somewhere along the line of what are the character traits
an entrepreneur should have blah blah blah......
George want SG passport for what? Do NS har?
actually, i can already think of at least 1 person I want sent for the
program...its just a chao-keng module. and what's wrong with teaching some
of the more clueless ones something they should know but am too inocent to
find out? in fact, I'd take this module just to learn more boys, i
mean...know....
well, the G-man isn't going to get an sg passport, unless we all move there
permanently. He'll need a passport to travel home this summer though - they
don't do the 'babies travel on parents passport' thing no more...! at least
not for the uk!
akk: Your rationale is flawed. This is going to be a subject to be
taught in Poly a place where all the boys and girls are already there.
Signing up for the Love Module will not facilitate you meeting new people
since, the people outside the lecture theatre and inside are the same.
Pam: I like the way you call him the G-Man. Sounds good! As for
babies having their own passport, I think it's the same in Singapore. My
two kids have their own passports too.
i always thought entreprenuership is the recent-years topic...din noe it
was started (in NTU) so long ago... I was forced to take that module too.A
complete waste of my time as I wasn't a bit interested in it...& i had to
took it during my sem. break! =x
okiedokie: If you ask me, the module is more of a lip-service
formality that allows the school to say that they have that aspect covered
in their education package. It yields no benefit except perhaps a very
basic awareness of it for a nation whose education system produces the
world's best employees.