Not sure if you heard of this but I heard it from various people from my life: “My cert? I burned it already”. This can be a bad joke that you don’t find anything funny or nothing at all but this actually deeply emphasize that there are quite some issues with our education certificates that we (or our parent) spent tons amount of money, time and effort to earn.
Back to ten years ago, to be able to enter college or university is something really proud for the student and family, which is about the same for now but the level of being proud is very much lesser because it’s no not something really rare for people to enter college/uni and graduate from their course.
I believe this phase or something similar is quite common since years ago: “When you throw a stone and it hit someone, that person is a college/uni graduates”. This is not really a joke or offends at modern time because this phase accurately describe the society we are living in. It’s too easy to enter college/uni even without good grades. And it’s also a serious issue that primary school and secondary school is more focus on pushing students to get good grades rather than ensuring that they are properly educated with the right knowledge.
I also came across tuition centre and education courses that teach student how to “hit” the right answer during the exam. This is really ridiculous. Imagine learning and studying for your life is just for the sake of trying to “hit” a right answer/solution in order to live.
These are the problems that students being pushed to study and think that they have to focus on getting higher grades in the exam and study. It’s understandable that in order to get good grades, student need to be knowledgeable to know the right answer. But the truth is somewhat unrelated about being knowledgeable in wisdom and it’s more to strategy and thoughtful, and the final result is usually not about becoming a person who the right knowledge & wisdom, and to know what should be right & wrong. If this is true, what’s the point of studying when a person don’t obtain true knowledge?
Try to put our thinking in this society, if getting skilled at getting good grades help people to earn a certificate with good CGPA, it definitely looks good when you trying to apply for job, but a doubt is how your CGPA helps to do your job as nice as your grades. Working in real life involve many different type of management skill and problem solving skills, as well as socializing, decision making, and things that you don’t get to learn when you are in primary and secondary school.
In real life, I came across people who have good education background and earn an honourable certificates. Yet, I’m quite speechless when they don’t know much about their field of study and when being asked to perform task as related to their main field, they may display as little knowledge as those who don’t have that title or education qualification.
I don’t mean to offend or looking down on them, I’m quite worry about the future of our education quality and the younger generation unable to get proper & sufficient for the right purpose.
As a final words, I think it’s quite pointless to think or debate on what’s make our education system in such a way as it’s more effective for the people to properly consider the true meaning behind studying is to earn knowledge and wisdom. Grades and certificate is what comes after the process of studying and learning, but it’s questionable on how solid and true is the words being written on the piece of paper. And this paper should not turn into the main factor that decide your life & future to be good or bad. Rather, focus to learn “knowledge” and not “higher grades”.
Back to ten years ago, to be able to enter college or university is something really proud for the student and family, which is about the same for now but the level of being proud is very much lesser because it’s no not something really rare for people to enter college/uni and graduate from their course.
I believe this phase or something similar is quite common since years ago: “When you throw a stone and it hit someone, that person is a college/uni graduates”. This is not really a joke or offends at modern time because this phase accurately describe the society we are living in. It’s too easy to enter college/uni even without good grades. And it’s also a serious issue that primary school and secondary school is more focus on pushing students to get good grades rather than ensuring that they are properly educated with the right knowledge.
I also came across tuition centre and education courses that teach student how to “hit” the right answer during the exam. This is really ridiculous. Imagine learning and studying for your life is just for the sake of trying to “hit” a right answer/solution in order to live.
These are the problems that students being pushed to study and think that they have to focus on getting higher grades in the exam and study. It’s understandable that in order to get good grades, student need to be knowledgeable to know the right answer. But the truth is somewhat unrelated about being knowledgeable in wisdom and it’s more to strategy and thoughtful, and the final result is usually not about becoming a person who the right knowledge & wisdom, and to know what should be right & wrong. If this is true, what’s the point of studying when a person don’t obtain true knowledge?
Try to put our thinking in this society, if getting skilled at getting good grades help people to earn a certificate with good CGPA, it definitely looks good when you trying to apply for job, but a doubt is how your CGPA helps to do your job as nice as your grades. Working in real life involve many different type of management skill and problem solving skills, as well as socializing, decision making, and things that you don’t get to learn when you are in primary and secondary school.
In real life, I came across people who have good education background and earn an honourable certificates. Yet, I’m quite speechless when they don’t know much about their field of study and when being asked to perform task as related to their main field, they may display as little knowledge as those who don’t have that title or education qualification.
I don’t mean to offend or looking down on them, I’m quite worry about the future of our education quality and the younger generation unable to get proper & sufficient for the right purpose.
As a final words, I think it’s quite pointless to think or debate on what’s make our education system in such a way as it’s more effective for the people to properly consider the true meaning behind studying is to earn knowledge and wisdom. Grades and certificate is what comes after the process of studying and learning, but it’s questionable on how solid and true is the words being written on the piece of paper. And this paper should not turn into the main factor that decide your life & future to be good or bad. Rather, focus to learn “knowledge” and not “higher grades”.
