What happened, MOE?

[makapaaa]

Nov 20, 2010

What happened, MOE?

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MY FIRST question after reading yesterday's report ('Singapore scholar caught with child porn in Britain') about 23-year-old Jonathan Wong was: What happened, Ministry of Education (MOE)?
I was shocked that the ministry awarded Wong a teaching scholarship. Imagine if he had escaped undetected, graduated and returned to Singapore to teach in our schools?
What remains unconfirmed - but needs to be clarified - is whether the ministry was aware of the punishment reportedly meted out to him, while he was a school student, for allegedly peeping at staff or other students. Did the ministry screen its applicants with due diligence before awarding them scholarships?
Being academically brilliant, as Wong apparently is, is especially not enough to qualify as a teacher.
Character, particularly unblemished moral behaviour, is vital, given the environment in which a teacher operates.
Proper behaviour and character are even more important today when both parents work and disciplining students has become more challenging.
Pang Jinghua (Miss)

 

[GoldenDragon]

Nov 20, 2010

What happened, MOE?

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MY FIRST question after reading yesterday's report ('Singapore scholar caught with child porn in Britain') about 23-year-old Jonathan Wong was: What happened, Ministry of Education (MOE)?
I was shocked that the ministry awarded Wong a teaching scholarship. Imagine if he had escaped undetected, graduated and returned to Singapore to teach in our schools?
What remains unconfirmed - but needs to be clarified - is whether the ministry was aware of the punishment reportedly meted out to him, while he was a school student, for allegedly peeping at staff or other students. Did the ministry screen its applicants with due diligence before awarding them scholarships?
Being academically brilliant, as Wong apparently is, is especially not enough to qualify as a teacher.
Character, particularly unblemished moral behaviour, is vital, given the environment in which a teacher operates.
Proper behaviour and character are even more important today when both parents work and disciplining students has become more challenging.
Pang Jinghua (Miss)

MOE's reply: Nothing happened. Let's move on.

 

[Ramseth]

MOE's reply: Nothing happened. Let's move on.

How about yellow ribbon scholar given a second chance? Too bad he blew it again.

 

[GoldenDragon]

How about yellow ribbon scholar given a second chance? Too bad he blew it again.

Tak boleh yellow ribbon. He wasn't in Boys' Home, charged court or RTC. Just public caning cannot qualify.

 

[Ramseth]

Being academically brilliant, as Wong apparently is, is especially not enough to qualify as a teacher.
Character, particularly unblemished moral behaviour, is vital, given the environment in which a teacher operates.
Proper behaviour and character are even more important today when both parents work and disciplining students has become more challenging.
Pang Jinghua (Miss)

Singapore teaching is about scoring good grades, not building characters. For what good is a good character when your grades are too low to get you anywhere in life? But if your grades are good enough, your character flaws doesn't matter if you're discreet and stealthy enough. The problem is he got caught!

 

[heartlander]

Singapore teaching is about scoring good grades, not building characters. For what good is a good character when your grades are too low to get you anywhere in life? But if your grades are good enough, your character flaws doesn't matter if you're discreet and stealthy enough. The problem is he got caught!

True. But don't expect other education systems to be better at building character. Look at America.

 

[Ramseth]

True. But don't expect other education systems to be better at building character. Look at America.

In western education system, it's about the same, to arm you with technical knowledge and a sense of propriety in public behaviour, not a moral value system. Note that the gist of the emphasis is in public behaviour, not internalised value. For that, go sort it out with your church.

In traditional Chinese education system, the teachings of the classic literatures already incorporate and internalise a moral value system.

 

[ivebert]

In western education system, it's about the same, to arm you with technical knowledge and a sense of propriety in public behaviour, not a moral value system.

Ass-rammed retard sinkie

You only have O Levels and you want to talk until you have done years of research on Western Education. Where are you drawing your conclusion from? Statistics? Longitudinal studies?

Pass your A levels before you make comments like this. They will teach you how to make substantiated comments in GP

If not, you are deemed as farting through your mouth:oIo:

 

[GoldenDragon]

I read in the newspapers that potential scholars have interviews and some tests to go through before a final decison is made. They should consider the merits of adding a lie detector test to weed out the 'undesirable' ones.

Some of these undesirable ones will help the system by not considering these scholarships knowing they MAY have to take a polygraph examination. Time consuming and $ involved but I am confident we have the funds from taxpayers' $.

 

[GoldenDragon]

Retard ass-rammed sinkie

You only have O Levels and you want to talk until you have done years of research on Western Education. Where are you drawing your conclusion from? Statistics? Longitudinal studies?

Pass your A levels before you make comments like this. They will teach you how to make substantiated comments in GP

If not, you are deemed as farting through your mouth:oIo:

He has a PhD from MIT so don't play play with him.

 

[po2wq]

... What happened, Ministry of Education (MOE)?
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Pang Jinghua (Miss)

ah hua ...

iz bcos ... sg has a loong coastline ... usa have a much, much shorter 1 ... :o

 

[formerlyknownas_ew]

In western education system, it's about the same, to arm you with technical knowledge and a sense of propriety in public behaviour, not a moral value system. Note that the gist of the emphasis is in public behaviour, not internalised value. For that, go sort it out with your church.

In traditional Chinese education system, the teachings of the classic literatures already incorporate and internalise a moral value system.

Really, they are that moral? I guess you've not met Chinese teachers, old and new yet.

 

[middaydog]

He has a PhD from MIT so don't play play with him.

Wah lau, you mean Ramseth read Chinese classic literatures for his PhD at MIT ?

 

[Ramseth]

Really, they are that moral? I guess you've not met Chinese teachers, old and new yet.

What they teach according to the classics may not be what they believe in and practise personally. It's in the teachings, not the teachers.

 

[Ramseth]

Wah lau, you mean Ramseth read Chinese classic literatures for his PhD at MIT ?

Does MIT teach Chinese classics? How come I don't know?

 

[middaydog]

Does MIT teach Chinese classics? How come I don't know?

Ha! this MIT may be

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[Ramseth]

Made in Thailand, the land of us Thai. We cultivated good old cultures from before Sukhothai, Lobhuri, Ayuthaya to now Krungthep (Bangkok), where people fall into sewer pipes. Oei! You don't say that about us, OK?! - Karabao Daeng

 

[halsey02]

In western education system, it's about the same, to arm you with technical knowledge and a sense of propriety in public behaviour, not a moral value system. Note that the gist of the emphasis is in public behaviour, not internalised value. For that, go sort it out with your church.

In traditional Chinese education system, the teachings of the classic literatures already incorporate and internalise a moral value system.

It wasn't only the traditional Chinese education system, but the Western education system in which we had inherited from the British initially does teaches moral values. I was taught in both schools of education & have often being classified as an anglophile...but I have benefited from both educational system.

The trouble is, we have a generation of people born in the eighties onwards are neither traditional Chinese system or English Education system ( or Western), they are what in Chinese saying worst than a "half bucket full of water"...many devoid of any moral fibre. The education system was designed to produced, people who are supposedly good in their grades, but have no qualms in been creatively sneaky to cheat or commit 'skeletons in the closet' crime.

 

[glockman]

Nov 20, 2010

What happened, MOE?

....................What remains unconfirmed - but needs to be clarified - is whether the ministry was aware of the punishment reportedly meted out to him, while he was a school student, for allegedly peeping at staff or other students. Did the ministry screen its applicants with due diligence before awarding them scholarships?

Being academically brilliant, as Wong apparently is, is especially not enough to qualify as a teacher....................

One wonders how he could've gotten the scholarship. His previous transgressions must've been covered up. In the bigger scheme of things, its who you know not what you know. Is this little perv the son of someone powerful?

 

[hotbot]

i like this clip, i think the band is quite cool,hor...

Ha! this MIT may be

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