SO LATE....

Its actually 2.55am and I have yet to produce anything constructive other than finishing my 11 year old brother's project...

Yeap...

You heard me right...

I just can never under stand the education system that we have in this country...

They stress on work load aka " Lagi Banyak, Lagi Bagus" and not on the process of learning itself...

We just love the word tuition...

Even one of my course mate goes for extra classes (still consider that as tuition) which is a common practice among Malaysian students believeing that such religous practice would bring for blessings of good marks...

Its crap that I have to do his Malay project which stresses on Malay Literature in which I have only under taken at the age of 16...

I am basically copying and pasting all that the research I have done on the net into a work which would be a 1 minute flip through by the teacher...

There is no merit in doing these projects when my brother couldn't pay two cents worth of attention to...

Besides, it is not unknown that teachers themseles are not appreciating such fine art, what more the students?

Learning?

Why is it so different from what we see on TV? I thought learning is not so much about academics. Its about shaping lives, forming characters, building faith and confidence...

Clearly, that is not the aim here or rather at a more general view, among Asians...

Why do we strive for excelence that in the midst of it all we lose sight of the actual reason we are placed to learn?

As for me, college though still looks very much like a tuition centre but there, I learn much more than the face value of statutes or basic legal principles...

I see the reason how a constitution is administered, how legal rules are not just a part of our lives but governs in aspects we hardly knew exists and how important it is to know the law beside cramming in as many cases as I can recall....

The point is, learning is about literally learning about something, not the amounts of As at the end of the day or the splendid result slip with a 1st Class honours imprinted on it...

Its about embracing what we learn and appreciating that what we are surrounded with...

You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about - the more you have left when anything happens.

Ethel Barrymore (1879 - 1959)