Sunday, January 17, 2010

Survey: Educating the young

Here are the results of the survey based on 47 replies.

About 90% refer an education system that has the following features:


> educate the young to be literate, numerate, have social skills, and moral values, instead of achieving academic excellence.
> a less competitive system, so that parents do not have to put pressure on students to study hard through homework and private tuition
> gives higher priority to non-academic subjects, such as moral values, character, social skills and interaction?
> encourage some people to pursue other forms of personal development, instead of university degrees


However, about 20% (i.e. more than 10%) are satisfied with the current system which emphasis academic excellence, and picks future leaders from the scholars.

The survey is still open for participation. Click here.