at last, one of the most important moments in a student's life had come......yes, SPM results were out, and i only knew one candidate who did exceptionally well in it.
but is spm everything for a human, a teenager, a student? i know its not the end of one's hopes and dreams and not the beginning of a fairy tale since i stepped into secondary school. spm merely put how much you read to the test. what can only be ask in spm is so myopically cramped into the textbooks we are forced to carry to school almost everyday. hey, i know they are free, but can anyone just get me a locker where i can dump all those dead weights at school and only walk back with small exercise books or assignments? spm, together with the current education system is trying to make us into sleepless robots and toy with our lives by making spm sound god-like.
im not saying spm is completely a waste of time, heck, todays march 13, i dont know how much time i got left to study, wait, i'll correct myself, to live!!! one can fail spm and still be sucessful in life, or one can get as many As as possible and only turn into an "As-s" later in life. it does not determine the way of life, but merely setting a course for us. its either you get a highway, and get rich, or end up at junctions, with your instincts to guide you...not completely shutting down the road.
i've say it a lot of times, and i'll say it again, i honestly hate our current education system. and i'll start with cocuricullum issue. they have made it compulsary, they have told you about that 10%, they have shown you how marks are given, and thats when it really pisses me off.
attendance-50%
achievement-20%
i forgot the rest, but these two would do. look, i can represent this country in any competition acknowledged by the education ministry and be a world champion....i'll only get 20%......OR i can go to the weekly activities, have a chat with my friends, tick my name, waste my ps-ing time there for a whole year, and i'll get 50%, more than half of the first one. since when participation certs worth more than trophies? so now, schools are producing people who only turn up at work by 8am, mind you about malaysian timezone which is 2 hours later than everything else, and go back by 5pm.....who only do some paper work, or sign some files.....which should be taken care by machines by now, or do we want people like einstein, or shakespear, maybe mozart. by logic, during their time, there were no school that can cater to their needs and talents, and if we clone them, and put them in school today, they'll be labelled as daydreaming, or slow, perhaps not paying attention. ask yourself, students or teachers, ask yourself,......if a genius were to attend your school, will you recognize his potential or will you consider him as those who are going to flunk his spm. i know what would be your answer....or at least, what should be, i cant help it if you can deceive yourself with mere illusions that locks away reality from your life.
education should be made fun. some teachers had done it, some had done the exact opposite. i dont mind homeworks, i dont mind writting extra, or staying back, stay up until morning, skip my ps-ing time bla bla bla, if i can only found any relevancy attached to it that i can really use in life. add math isnt so bad now, considering what "dampervan" has put me through. she single handedly crushed my faith that such subject is fun. not being able to be creative.....ok, im not so creative, not being able to be out of the box is killing me, but confining everything to the marking scheme is to the extent absurd does not carry enough connotation. so i asked myself this, am i learning to be educated or am i learning to follow the scheme? we both know what is happening now. spm does test your level and depth of knowledge, the idea is there and its fine, until the implementation comes into place and puts the stars and the moon under the scheme. so much for astronomy, now, we need a @$^&#$@$-scope to replace the telescope, since our night sky would be full of marking schemes.
my last sentence would be; spm is not everything, it does not tell you who u are, or who you will be, but merely a form of vague interpretation of your true potential, that does not need any form of recognition, other than of your own.
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