“Truthfully, the world of economics tuition in Singapore is not pretty. Economics tutors have been embroiled in lawsuits over who the best Econs tutor is (which is why I personally shun from labelling myself as one). I have also been a target of smear campaigns, fake reviews, and even malware attacks. These issues take up precious time and energy that could have been spent on my students instead.
Alas, I prefer not to invest too much time into marketing. Instead, I am focused on providing the best quality tuition for my students, and let their results and word-of-mouth do the talking. Each year, I am also working on providing newer and better materials, such as the IB & JC A-Level Economics Notes, Infographics & Mindmaps, Economics Concept Videos, A-Level & IB Economics Real World Examples, Past A-Level Questions and Answers, and so much more. This is the healthy competition that all Econs tutors should be focussing on instead. We need to remember that our ultimate goal is to help our students.
Folks from the MOE and from marketing agencies have also observed this peculiar problem with regards to Economics tuition. It does not seem to affect the rest of the JC tuition industry—only Economics. It is quite a mystery and I think I might have finally solved it.In Economics, we learn that firms seek to maximise profit. We also learn of many possible firm strategies to achieve that. Have economic tutors been taking economics too seriously and in a wrong way?We all need to earn profits but we should live our lives with a purpose that is beyond that, and teaching is actually a higher calling that should be beyond the dollars and cents.
Moreover, competition should be principled and ethical. Unfortunately, in the digital world, it seems that unhealthy and unethical competition is easier to engineer and much easier to get away with. This is actually quite scary.So to all these, I would say, I do not know if I am offering the best economics tuition. I probably will never know and I don’t really care. I will just keep getting better for myself and for my students to provide BETTER economics tuition every year,” said Mr. Kelvin Hong.
