Fake Meritocracy Hinder Sporeans Progress
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Simply put, you call this fake meritocracy.
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From: jbharding (Japarmy) 28-Aug 22:34
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Here is my opinion of FTs. First, Singapore's educational system,
although good academically, is not desinged to instill self-
confidence in students. At IRAS we had many of the best former NUS
students working for us. In general, they were, however, programmed
not to take charge. This is compounded by putting an FT, in this case
me, in charge of the IRAS computer operation. My initial contract was
for two years. I was extended to a third, before going off (for a
better salary) to Citibank.
By putting FTs in key position, Singapore blocks its own people from
advancing on merit. In this way Singapore controls who gets ahead,
and who doesn't. Only the favored succeed, and it more ones attitude
than ability that enables him to go ahead.
In this way, those at the top can pick and choose those who will
never challange them. Singapore is not alone is operating this way.
At Citibank, the CEO, John Reed was noted for surrounding himself
with weak people. That way John Reed could stay on top, which he did
for some time. Eventually, however, John Reed was forced out of
Citibank as a result of its merger with Travelors.
FTs are the roadblocks who are put in place to prevent Singaporeans
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So he sees...Originally posted by Love Story:http://forums.delphiforums.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=sammyboymod&msg=81049.1
Simply put, you call this fake meritocracy.
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From: jbharding (Japarmy) 28-Aug 22:34
To: groundnuts unread 68 of 68
79269.68 in reply to 79269.67
Here is my opinion of FTs. First, Singapore's educational system,
although good academically, is not desinged to instill self-
confidence in students. At IRAS we had many of the best former NUS
students working for us. In general, they were, however, programmed
not to take charge. This is compounded by putting an FT, in this case
me, in charge of the IRAS computer operation. My initial contract was
for two years. I was extended to a third, before going off (for a
better salary) to Citibank.
By putting FTs in key position, Singapore blocks its own people from
advancing on merit. In this way Singapore controls who gets ahead,
and who doesn't. Only the favored succeed, and it more ones attitude
than ability that enables him to go ahead.
In this way, those at the top can pick and choose those who will
never challange them. Singapore is not alone is operating this way.
At Citibank, the CEO, John Reed was noted for surrounding himself
with weak people. That way John Reed could stay on top, which he did
for some time. Eventually, however, John Reed was forced out of
Citibank as a result of its merger with Travelors.
FTs are the roadblocks who are put in place to prevent Singaporeans
from getting ahead.
Which is why people are lamenting how come our shows are so... crappy. We surely can do much much more than that, have people much much more Zoe and Fann. But instead, we have to push those people to Hong Kong and China... and from China, the response is not really alot of people bothered with Singapore production nowadays, and not stars except the Sun and the Ah Du.
Instead great Chinese shows are starting to flood Singapore as FTs do.
This is only making us weaker and weaker. We have to get talented people up there to have the ship from being sinking. -
no..... the dependency on foriegn talent is to help singapore up as well as to boost singapore's population..... Fake meritocracy??????? i dun think so, those who are able n willing will volunteer themselves to help the society...singaporeans are just not as automatic as other ppl in area of POLITICS....see the recent president election onli 3 are here to compete, shows there is NO fake meritocracy but onli the problems lies with the ppl , singapore just doesn't wan to risk themselves in helping the society to grow..that's y keep sticking to safe jobs like Teahers, secretary...and not politics....
NO such thing as FT in singapore,.....
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Meritocracy is a flawed concept. It adheres to a certain narrow minded concept of judgment. S'pore is a well known meritocratic society.
The wrost and worrying part of the system is that it allows crooked individuals to be in power and wreck havock. Much like the NKF saga. -
Like for eg. somene can be good in maths but not good in memorising facts like History subject. Is it fair to say if the that person failed his history or any other subject for that matter, he failed to fulfill the system criteria? I do not think so.
In the first place there isnt a system in place to identify the other talents the person may have.
S'pore education system had ruined many people's lives.They streamline u to VITB, ITE, Poly and JC. If u flunked your O levels to a certain extent u go to VITB. According to them, u should have go to VITB n waste yr life in a propaganda and well established power control scheme system meant to seregate society. Imagine the stigma attached to the person as "less capable" because he or she went to the VITB
The education system is a failure as it does more harm than good. And history had shown that a education system in a country is influenced by political motives. For example, Japan censors its texbooks about its WW2 history. -
As u can see her ein these forums, People who air radical views and suggestions may be lower educated than the elites sitting at the top. But yet they the elites dont come up with such ideas. So to ask u this question, Did the meritocracy system yield any beneficial results ?