What they have done to our kids.

My neighbour's kids just entered school and I hear the mother yelling and screaming at them everyday trying to " teach" them .First , not everybody knows how to teach>When will they realize this? By yelling and shouting at the kids you are doing great psychological damage to the kids without realizing it and they may grow up the wrong way. When we were children school was fun .Children went to school to obtain a bit of knowledge and there was plenty of time for us to play after school.Who heard of tuition those days ? Who heard of tests and homework? We enjoyed our childhood as we grew up without going through the pressures which children today face>This is the result of firstly political interference in education and the kiasu attitude of parents.You are young only once and the formative years should be the best years of your life.Children should learn naturally,their natural curiosity will lead them to discover things on their own.But what are we doing today? We want them to do well in their studies and as a result they are put through hours of torture in the form of tuition and coaching by parents .They do not have time to enjoy life.During our time our parents left us alone where studies were concerned and if we had a few red marks on our report cards my father would just say " Try harder".There was no pressure to do well and we learnt naturally.We depended just on our class teachers and these were a special breed of people as compared with teachers today in terms of dedication and commitment. Those days teachers had time to teach.We were just given the syllabus and the teachers would make sure that we learned the contents well.Today because of politicians trying to control education for whatever reasons teachers are required to do so many things rather than teach and of course the students suffer and have no choice but to resort to tuition.When you have the direction of education being determined by idiotic politicians the result is a confused medley of educational objectives with the focus still on exam. results.Sad ,this has been pointed out years ago but it remains the same till today. Today as we go along 50 over years after merdeka there is still such a marked difference between urban and rural schools because the policy makes it so.Good teachers are normally concentrated in the urban areas and sometimes working in a rural school is looked upon as a form of punishment. The medium of instruction has changed from English to the National Language without proper planning and as result our schools have become racist with the races flocking to their respective racial schools thus we have the Indians ,Chinese and Malays all divided through the educational system.During our time we had only one type of school ie the English medium schools and there was no issue of racial disunity.Parents should realize that this kind of system is divisive and Chinese parents would want to send their children to the Chinese Schools as would the Malays send theirs to the Malay schools.The poor children are placed in schools through selection by parents who think they are educationists and this may have harmful effects on the kids. Look at the number of books the kids have in their bags and you will wonder how they are going to manage.There are many reasons for this ,political economic and cronyism. The net result is that our kids suffer and have to go through an educational system that has no real direction. Schools should be fun where children learn through discovery and where the learning experience is enjoyable and meaningful.If we put our kids through a confused system the result is a confused future generation.