Thursday, May 03, 2007
Thinking out of the box?
Is it worth it? Lets just be sheep!
With IHRM test coming up on this Saturday, the words of our chinese tutor of several weeks, Mr Gopal seem to keep ringing in my ear 'think out of the box people!'. Yeah, I remember he was so caught up in his goal to make us 'think' instead of memorizing he spent the whole lesson trying to get some input from us. But to no avail.
Which leads me to think. He isnt the only lecturer which told us to think outside the box. Our Organizational Behaviour lecturer, Ms Geh told us that as well along with our IHRM lecturer, Ms Chin.
Thinking outside the box? Seriously, is it WORTH the trouble?
Suffice to say, have you ever come to a crushing realisation that keywords are VERY VERY important? Ever had the experience of writing a beautiful essay long answer for Sejarah? Only to feel really stupid when you saw your friend's paper. The bugger who wrote several lines full of keywords ended up getting everything correct, while you, the one who actually DID think, got less then them?
So much for thinking.
It has become our culture to thinking within the box. We were TRAINED to memorize our answers. Kata kuncis have become our best friends. I have a friend who just memorizes without understanding the full content of what is taught. Each time the leturer teaches something new which she dont understand, she'll tell me "gotta memorize this!"
The scariest part of it all is that she memorizes ACCOUNTING. -.-''
Lets face it, I dont blame her. I remember in primary school, we were forced to memorize an essay daily, much to our distain. Yet,we followed as ordered. So suffice to say, my essays in primary school were.. umm.. dry and probably similar in content with other hundreds of kids who had been forced to memorize the same essay.
Anyway, the main point is I passed right?
In fact, I passed quite prettily. So who am I to complain?
Welcome mediocre thinking and goodbye creativity.
Our education system is producing more sheep than New Zealand.
Anyhow, I think I shall go back to studying Intro to Human Resource (IHRM) and be a sheep again now.
Ciao.
Labels: college
posted by hiddenmcky at 1:50 PM
4 Comments:
lalala i didnt see your last post... hummdeeleelah.
re: this post
i think you're so bloody right lah.in primary school, my essays were always revolving around the same few that i'd already memorized. usually "saya seekor kucing (ALWAYS si comel one, no other name)" or "keluarga saya"
That's why all through my secondary school days my karangans were the pits! seriously! this is another form of brainwash (please read: my latest entry)!!!
-aim
"Our education system is producing more sheep than New Zealand." - Uh.. now i can have that woolen coat i always wanted.
Lol, i never knew any other name for cats.. comel was good enough for me. Memorize ar? Hmm.. never liked doing that (cause was never good at it - my policy). And THAT's why i enjoyed the 1st 3 years of primary school; don't follow 'good' advice!
Either way also my karangan will suck one lah. Unlike English essays, i can't think of any ideas to write about or have this nice flow where i write and write non-stop. (i should just translate - why have i not thought of that before).
even in my college (i'm too lazy to spell the uni-word).. thinking outside the box is TOO DIFFERENT.. some of my lecturers will say "just follow whatever you're supposed to follow ok.. then when you graduate, you can be as DIFFERENT as you want.."
mcb.
though, i have one lecturer who would hate it if we answer our exam paper with standard answers.. he'll fail us straight away.
un-mcb.
but for my design subject the other day.. when i showed my lecturer my design.. he hated it, i told him i wanted to do a different kind of brochure.. and he said my different is TOO different..
mcb back.
to me.. thinking outside the box is art. then again, art to some people is just pendidikan seni.. lukis rumah di sebuah kampung dan kampung itu mesti ada sawah padi.. the end.
there are still bigger boxes, no matter what..
in malaysia, it's ok to think outta the box. however, we aren't allowed to think outta the boxes in most of the time. sigh.
most of the examiners prefer marking without much thinking. it's better to leave a note on the box stating: 'i've been thinking outta the boxes for ages! ' and then stay inside the wrapped boxes, especially in government examination. =p
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