Singapore Democrats, 28 Aug 2012Singapore has an international reputation for producing students who excel in mathematics and the sciences. But has our historic focus on the hard sciences, engineering, mathematics, important though these subjects are, allowed the innate creativity of our young people to flounder?
It is a commonly-heard argument that the Singapore education system lacks space for creativity and the political culture must inevitably shoulder the burden of this.
The authoritarian, top-down approach hardly encourages freedom of thought, speech and expression, not to mention harnessing the perspectives of teaching professionals. Full story
