Ex-MOE Policy Maker’s Criticism Of Our Education System Is Well-Placed But We Think It’ll Be Ignored The argument about the place of elitism in our education system has been hard to escape in recent weeks. In letters to the newspapers and online commentaries, it seems that everyone has an opinion about: whether elitism is a problem how to tackle said problem Joining that list this week is a man who claims to be a former Ministry of Education policy officer, Mr Yann Wong. In a Facebook note titled “We’re Not Free to Define ‘Elitism’ As We Please“, he captured the attention of local intelligentsia by sharing his concerns about the impact of meritocracy and elitism on Singapore’s students. Mr Wong adds a refreshing facet to the argument, by focusing on the students themselves and not some abstract concept. But are his points as novel as they seem – and w We break it down after the jump. https://www.facebook.com/notes/yann-wong/were-not-free-to-define-elitism-as-we-please/10155542204141302/ DSA for context Mr Wong begins his note by recounting the promise of the Direct School Admission (DSA) scheme, spearheaded by then-Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam in 2004. Hailed as a way of promoting diverse measures of merit, the policy was extremely successful […]
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