The more highly educated, the greater he makes a leader
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It is only a general statement based on assumptions that the more educated a person a better will he make a leader.
As with so many MM Lee's policies of the past, many of them do not quite produce the desired outcome as predicted or assumed.
By paying million-dollar salaries, Singapore still does not manage to attract talented ministers who could better solve our serious problems like disaffective divide between government and people, (an important and critical criteria to nation building), perpetual rising costs due to short-cuts in policy making and double-charging of people (HDB Flats double-charged on lands) and all the profiteering schemes by all the GLCs etc.
Passions, determinations, fundamental political/governing philosophy, EQs and motivational factors are all missing from the scholars and highly educated Ministers resulting in our current problems.
Education is only 30% important. 70% are other factors. The more highly educated is a crook the more mischief sometimes will be caused by him as seen in the million-dollar losses suffered by Sembawang Marine, APB, NTUC Choicehome and even NKF. -
"It is only a general statement based on assumptions that the more educated a person a better will he make a leader."
That is a wrong assumption to begin with. -
Actually, there is some truth in both TS and LKY's stand.
However, my stand is that a leader can better himself through education aka education is a path to greater leadership abilities but by no means is it the only way nor can it be used definitively as a yeardstick for one's leadership capabilities. -
You guys no no meh?
this world is like this.
study many many = success.
can do business good good = potential national leader.
Its all about economy.
running a country to me seems very much the same as running a business. -
It is only a general statement based on assumptions that the more educated a person a better will he make a leader.
Educated in what? -
I don't agree with the title of the thread.
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No by education here I do not mean moral or life education but book knowledge.Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:Educated in what? -
No by education here I do not mean moral or life education but book knowledge.
What sort of book knowledge? -
Untested theoretical academic kind of knowledge usually ten years behind practical application in the real world.Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:What sort of book knowledge? -
I've been studying the academics , many of the written text have some truth in them, however application in this evolving and changing dynamics of civilisation building can be very challenging.Originally posted by robertteh:Untested theoretical academic kind of knowledge usually ten years behind practical application in the real world.
Especially when someone have a certain perspective about an issue, another person also have another perspective based on individual experiences and encounters.
It is more prudent to let the advisor advise and the students to study, the workers work and the teachers teach, engineers engineer and planners plan.
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Therefore doesn't it follow that there is something wrong with our system where young scholars fresh from university or NS, and full of academic or book knowledge but without proven track record were simply pushed up to positions like CEOs or GMs or directors in charge of heavy responsibilities.Originally posted by NotFromVenus:I've been studying the academics , many of the written text have some truth in them, however application in this evolving and changing dynamics of civilisation building can be very challenging.
Especially when someone have a certain perspective about an issue, another person also have another perspective based on individual experiences and encounters.
It is more prudent to let the advisor advise and the students to study, the workers work and the teachers teach, engineers engineer and planners plan.
How confident will a fresh scholar be in whatever he is trying to do as a CEO or Senior Officer in government department or GLCs without the fullest exposures to practical experiences.
But under the big banner od meritocracy all of our scholars are having a field day in civil service and GLCs.
So far nobody it seems has been able to do something to check such a narrow-minded meritocracy which was conveniently accepted in appointing untested young academic people into positions of power without relevant track records of achievements.
In an MNC will a scholar with PHD be immediately appointed or be appointed within 3 years to a position earning $50,000.00 pm like is happening in our civil service or the millitary or the GLCs without relevant track records of having launched a successful products. -
Study give us knowledge, but inability to apply this knowledge will give us rubbish.
Leadership and management skills is either inborn or learn from real life experience. Just by books alone doesn't give you any of those.
Don't even need to mention GLC or Ministries, from our daily working life, can see many of this real life example of got nice cert but cannot perform or technical skill very strong but super suck when it come to management.
This is something that is very common in Singapore since this country is based on paper qualifications. Without it, don't even think of having those MNC or GLC or whatever C companies to grant you an interview.
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Sums up my feelings as wellOriginally posted by strikefreedom:Study give us knowledge, but inability to apply this knowledge will give us rubbish.
Leadership and management skills is either inborn or learn from real life experience. Just by books alone doesn't give you any of those.
Don't even need to mention GLC or Ministries, from our daily working life, can see many of this real life example of got nice cert but cannot perform or technical skill very strong but super suck when it come to management.
This is something that is very common in Singapore since this country is based on paper qualifications. Without it, don't even think of having those MNC or GLC or whatever C companies to grant you an interview. -
Recently the French president was given a pay rise of 200%, making his annual salary about 240K euros. Immediately, he went to work to prove his worth.
French industrialists visiting China with President Nicolas Sarkozy say they have finalised trade deals worth almost 20bn euros, as reported in BBC today.
Our PM should lead a team to China soon to make trade deals worth at least 4 times as much. -
At this time and age you can hardly find any Organizational leader who are in the least successful in launching big estate projects and not stay in the private sector to reap the rewards.
Such leaders usually are humble and or are already established with no reason to bicker with the petty politics of governmental seats. -
Actually it not really about humble, they are just after money and they know exactly where the money is, so why get into politics and kana $#$@ by people no matter how hard they tried to come up with policies that suit the people taste.Originally posted by NotFromVenus:At this time and age you can hardly find any Organizational leader who are in the least successful in launching big estate projects and not stay in the private sector to reap the rewards.
Such leaders usually are humble and or are already established with no reason to bicker with the petty politics of governmental seats.
So it better off enjoying the money that they earn while letting others to get curse n swear. -
They become humble after learning that being humble protects themselves from their adversaries like the "powerful" powers.Originally posted by strikefreedom:Actually it not really about humble, they are just after money and they know exactly where the money is, so why get into politics and kana $#$@ by people no matter how hard they tried to come up with policies that suit the people taste.
So it better off enjoying the money that they earn while letting others to get curse n swear.
"a good example would be the 'golden tap'"