More Schooling, But Too Little Learning

[Pak.Lang]

As a friend said to me during our visit to Seoul last year…”throw a rock and you’ll hit a PhD!” But what really caught my attention was that last quote – too much schooling, too little learning.

If Malaysia wants a high income, knowledge driven economy; if we want R&D and innovation to be the linchpin for competitiveness; if we want our own Nobel Laureates; we’ll need critical thinking, interpersonal skills and life long learning ability inculcated in our children – and this is best done at the very earliest ages.

If you think this is a diatribe against our education system…yes, it is, but only in part. Parents have to play a role too. In fact, the parent’s role might be the more important of the two.

From the World Bank’s Education for Global Development blog (excerpt, emphasis added):

When an exclamation point is warranted

At the High-Level Forum on aid effectiveness (known as HLF4) a few weeks ago in Busan, South Korea, I had the pleasure of participating in a panel on education and aid...what we saw in our panel on aid for education, and in the one-day pre-conference that informed it, was very encouraging: it showed how Korea’s lessons about student learning are influencing international education policy.

The event had been given the title “Dream with Education!” by our hosts in the Korean government. The exclamation point may seem over-exuberant, but in the Korean context, it’s not. Korea’s universal high-quality basic education and high rates of participation in higher education have helped it achieve development that would have exceeded any dreams fifty years ago, when rapid growth started...

...My first job as a fresh college graduate was as a researcher and speechwriter at the country’s leading think tank, the Korea Development Institute. Upon moving to Seoul, I was struck immediately by two major contrasts with Mexico and Latin America, the country and region I knew best. First, it was obvious that (as income and human development statistics attested) the first decades of rapid growth in Korea had been widely shared throughout society. I could see this in the relative prosperity of the rural areas, which clearly benefitted from good infrastructure; in the near-absence of slums in urban areas; and, less tangibly, in the many signs of strong social capital, such as a lack of violent crime. Second, people I talked to evinced an ardent faith in education as the most reliable vehicle for personal and social progress...

...How much of Korea’s shared growth and development in recent decades is really owed to all its investment in education? Quite a bit, say most growth experts. For example…the World Bank's Growth Commission, led by Nobel laureate Michael Spence, concludes that impressive rates of investment in education were an essential ingredient. Education “crowds in” private investment by raising returns to private ventures, said the commissioners. Paul Romer, a leading growth theorist, emphasizes that education investments have helped rapid growers like Korea to get something of a free lunch, by giving them the ability to make use of the worldwide stock of knowledge that already exists in the advanced countries.

What’s most important about Korea’s fervor for education is that it has borne real fruit in terms of student learning. Investment in education yields little benefit if students don’t acquire the knowledge and skills they need for their lives and livelihoods. And in too many countries, this is exactly what is happening: more schooling, but too little learning.

http://econsmalaysia.blogspot.com/2012/01/more-schooling-but-too-little-learning.html

 

[d..0..v..0..b]

kalau tak dapat banyak A.nanti mak bapak marah...~X(

 

[Pak.Lang]

kalau tak dapat banyak A.nanti mak bapak marah...~X(

kalau jawab mak bapak pon xpernah dapat A kene lempang )

 

[mr_man]

jgn risau, pendidikan kita kearah yg betul, nak kurangkan exam oriented dah..

 

[Megat Sri Rama]

melihat dari dalam dunia orang Melayu, masalah Melayu adalah seperti berikut :

1. Pembudayaan Ilmu - ini wujud tapi hanya berkaitan ilmu agama & "ilmu" khurafat.

2. Masalah bahasa - Orang Melayu generasi muda, yang menikmati dunia ilmu baru (baru bagi dunia Melayu) malah berkongsi dalam bahasa Inggeris. Pemerintah pula bo.doh dalam hakikat ilmu, tidak menggerakkan malah melumpuhkan perpindahan ilmu dari bahasa-bahasa asing kepada bahasa Melayu. Ilmu dalam bahasa asing tidak akan dapat meresap ke dalam masyarakat Melayu secara sepenuhnya melainkan kepada golongan elit, ini akan menghasilkan bangsa ini dipangsa-pangsa kepada beberapa kelas manusia. Ini bertentangan dengan apa yang ada dalam artikel TT.

3. Sistem pendidikan yang bersifat authoritarian yang menghasilkan manusia yang tidak matang. Generasi yang ada sekarang, jika sesuatu perbuatan mereka tidak mendatangkan hukuman atau denda, maka mereka akan buat. Pertimbangan sama ada ia itu satu perbuatan yang "wajar" atau "salah" tidak penting, yang penting sama ada "i gain from it" atau "i'll get punished for it".


begitulah pendapat saya.

 

[Berfikir]

aku tak fikir generasi muda sekarang macam tunggul.
sebab aku adalah produk sistem pendidikan yang mementingkan peperiksaan pun boleh berfikir secara kreatif,inovatif dan lain-lain.
mestilah generasi sekarang lebih pintar.

 

[jokolungo]

aku tak fikir generasi muda sekarang macam tunggul.
sebab aku adalah produk sistem pendidikan yang mementingkan peperiksaan pun boleh berfikir secara kreatif,inovatif dan lain-lain.
mestilah generasi sekarang lebih pintar.

satu contoh tidak melambangkan semua. rata rata majikan berpendapat pelajar sekarang amat kurang dalam skil hidup

 

[Pak.Lang]

fix the economic system before the education system

 

[jokolungo]

fix the economic system before the education system

rasanya tu pendapat yang jahil..

pendidikan lah teras keutuhan ekonomi,,

 

[TT]

ilmu cari duit tu yg penting

itu yg bile dah umur -let say abs dgree 25 baru nk thegeh2 cari keje..baru nak menapak..klo duk umh parents n mak ayah tolong blikn kereta ok r..klo yg xmampu..nk sewa umah lagi

adeh..

at the end klo g study pointer xdpt 3.5 pstu marah2 apsal ssh dpt keje sdri mau ingatla..demo lg