13 November 2006
The knowledge road to nothingness
According to the Singapore Department of Statistics, the mean years of schooling for Singaporeans is 8.8. This has led me to recount my years that I have spent in schools, in studying my ass off. And I am amazed, it has been amost freaking 18 years that I spent buried in books. I doubled that stats.I was enrolled to the nursery. While other kids in the neighbourhood were happily playing and living their childhood, I was in school learning ABC and at the age of 3, I already knew how to read simple fairy tale books and drawings. Then it is off to the kindergarten for another 2 years, which after 6 years of primary education and not resting, to another 5 years of secondary school. Then without further delay, 3 more years in the poly and another 2 years in the uni. Now.... After more than half of my life receiving education, I wonder did it reap back from the jobs that I did. It didn't and I'm still considered as lowly paid compared to those who make it big without education. I felt wasted, god-damn freaking wasted. But still, the Asian mentality has it that education is the road to success. Does it?
The more education we received, the more in-human we become. The more knowledge we inherited, the more mis-behavior we conducted. The higher our certification goes, the less chances we can get a job in Singapore. I wonder what is the reason.
There are some grads from our local uni didn't even get as much as those who graduated from the polys, and it does look outrageous. If this is the case, then what is the purpose of making it so hard to go into the local uni and ended up losing the standings to those who didn't. Why did we invest so much in education and reap less than a third of it? What did we get in return?
Boy, it's a tiring journey. If I can decide back then, I really rather have a nice childhood of playing with other kids rather than analyzing the moral of the stories and drawing out the future of what I had to see.
7:32 p.m. 
by ichigo