Ng Chee Meng Hopes To Teach Innovation In Schools Minister for Education (Schools) Ng Chee Meng wants our students to be more innovative. Mr Ng cited examples such as Uber, Grab, and Airbnb as companies that were founded on the back of a strong “Innovation Quotient”, at a Ministry of Education (MOE) function on 29 Dec. Such innovation, he said, presents tremendous opportunities for the brave who “ride the waves”, even if it could leave “some of us floundering”. Source As admirable of a goal that ‘innovation in schools’ may be, we consider if it’s even a valid objective. Sow the seeds of innovation in schools Mr Ng stressed that the best time for Singapore to encourage innovation, is the formative years of students in schools. He quipped in his speech, Singapore needs to innovate. And schools are natural starting points, to sow the seeds of innovation. Stressing that it had to be an intentional move on the part of the schools, Mr Ng was clear that it won’t be easy, saying, Innovation requires certain skills and dispositions, hard work, perseverance, tenacity and dare. He also called on schools to nurture what he called the 3Is – imagination, inquisitiveness and interconnections. This isn’t even the […]
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