Creativity takes a backseat among Singaporeans
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Scores of articles have been published, tons of studies have been carried out, and many ministers have expressed the lack of creativity among local Singaporeans.
"There is an over-emphasis on rote learning!" one reader of the local newspaper wrote.
"The government is stifling creativity by creaming off the best!" wrote another
Would these factors have so much of an impact on the lack of creativity in Singapore as the individual themselves? Creativity is a willingness to think out of the norm, and daring to come up with ideas, and be empowered to nurture these ideas no matter what others may say. In fact, more people are unaware of their ability to be creative, than they are actually incapable of this mind-aerobics.
I believe that when one makes an effort to discover new ideas, he will be able to generate it as easily as everybody else. The perveived inability to be creative is probably a reflection on the poor education grounding of our young on their brains.
Examination oriented schools force their students to become text-books, concerned fully on standardised question and answers, and are discouraged from thinking on their own. It is precisely this ignorance that people grow up with their creative potential untapped. They then go about their lives, waiting for cut-and-dried answers, because they are unaware that they have the power to think.
Some of them do wake up from their ignorance. This is manifested in plethora of writings that we see on the Internet - web sites and blogs. These people take into their hands the process of creating content out of nothing (one of the aspects of creativity). Certainly, if you ask a rote-learned person to write about anything, you would probably get an answer along the lines of "Do you need a standard answer?" -
x2 not including textbook "creativity".
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this is Fucking stupid please.Originally posted by bollywoodfan2005:Examination oriented schools force their students to become text-books, concerned fully on standardised question and answers, and are discouraged from thinking on their own. It is precisely this ignorance that people grow up with their creative potential untapped. They then go about their lives, waiting for cut-and-dried answers, because they are unaware that they have the power to think.
Some of them do wake up from their ignorance. This is manifested in plethora of writings that we see on the Internet - web sites and blogs. These people take into their hands the process of creating content out of nothing (one of the aspects of creativity). Certainly, if you ask a rote-learned person to write about anything, you would probably get an answer along the lines of "Do you need a standard answer?"
OMFG, firstly, how are students discouraged from thinking on their own? the exams all require a lot of thinking, if you cannot think fast, you will do bad on the exam, its that simple.
secondly, you are saying that those dipShits who write crappy blogs are "Creative"? Oh pls. how "Creative" I can summarize their standard blog easily:
1. write nonsensical bullShit to act cute.
2. pretend to hate everyone and everything to act cool, criticize everything for no reason.
3. take pictures of yourself that show only half of your face and post your pics to act mysterious.
thats standard for you. -
maybe the part of the weblog u are right. But that s becuase people might want to maintain their privacy on the internet.
But look att all the websites on the net....almost all the creative ones are done by foreigners. -
pls post sth oringinal...nt cut n paste
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ok. but I believe whether a person is creative has very little to do with the education system. study is one thing, creativity is another, you can always be creative outside the classroom. For example I draw. in the case of exams, I do not think there is such a thing as "think creative". However there is critical thinking, in which you have to think fast and logically, and to do so might require some improvisation, which the student will only be capable of if he understands the subject well. That is important.Originally posted by bollywoodfan2005:maybe the part of the weblog u are right. But that s becuase people might want to maintain their privacy on the internet.
But look att all the websites on the net....almost all the creative ones are done by foreigners.
I think one of the reasons why foreigners have a lot of creative ones is because Singapore has a smaller population. But I've met some very creative singaporeans. -
creativity??
see sig.
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fark you stupid idiotOriginally posted by bollywoodfan2005:maybe the part of the weblog u are right. But that s becuase people might want to maintain their privacy on the internet.
But look att all the websites on the net....almost all the creative ones are done by foreigners.