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Saturday, April 17, 2010
Sigh. What's good to blog about? I'm having new melodies inspiration lately during my subconscious state at nights but I was too lazy to wake myself up and record the inspirations. And I would not remember them once I wake up the next day. But really not just because I'm lazy. I think as humans become older, we do a lot of cost-benefit analysis before deciding to do something. That can be a double-edged sword. When I was much younger, all I had were dreams, inspirations and creativity. And every new dream, inspiration and creative idea was precious to me, regardless. Even if they didn't work out eventually, I felt no regrets because at least I tried them out. The Thomas Edison spirit...."I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. " I used to have this quote stuck onto the wall of my bedroom during my younger days. Well. My lecturer gave a prep talk for all final year students during his revision lecture yesterday. I welcomed that into my otherwise boring life of doing something I do not enjoy for 4 years in university. His words deeply impressed me. He educated us that Education is Self-discovery. By the way, teaching is NOT education. Teaching is just ONE phase of Education. After his words, I felt that my faculty has some hope. At least not all is lost, with a few of my fac's lecturers having such enlightenments, as I could observe. My lecturer says education is self-discovery in a very Thomas Edison sense...if we have found ourselves experiencing this course, given it a real try, and finally conclude that we do not want to venture in this area of expertise as a career after 4 years doing it, it has been worth it. "Discovering what you dislike is just as important as discovering what you like."That to me, was somehow consoling. Perhaps that was his motivation in the first place. But I was indeed encouraged. It is funny how we receive Education in the full sense of the word in primary, secondary and JC school life but we simply hated it. And as I enter into tertiary education, the value of Education dropped down to just "teaching". I realize what I truly hated. And what I used to hate has been greatly missed. Perhaps university is truly all-man-for-his-own...if you want to experience true education in NUS, you gotta self-discover through the choices you make within the university. But there are always 1001 reasons we can find to justify ourselves, right? "Cambridge educates. NUS doesn't." -Dr. Philip Chan Labels: daily rantings 2:00 PM
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