Monday, May 31, 2010

Schools stress to pupils: No copying & Tokyo University to crack down on plagiarism in theses

Plagiarism is a very serious offence.

Some people may not know what plagiarism is, not to mention the seriousness of it. The act of copying and paste a sentence or paragraph from a source written by someone is considered plagiarism. Many students do not know about it. This is the reason why they always copy and paste from a source for their project. They do not know that this is a violation of copyrights. There are a few reasons why students perform the act of plagiarism. One of the reasons could be due to laziness. Some students are lazy to rephrase the whole sentence or paragraph with their own words and just copy and paste the whole thing. Another reason is that some students are weak in English and they do not know how to change the sentence of paragraph into their own words. However, all of these are not valid reasons that students can perform the act of plagiarism. If they are weak in English, they can look up words in the dictionary or thesaurus.

There are also people who know what plagiarism is and the seriousness of it but still commit the offence. These kind of people are the ones who should be severely dealt with. Serkan Anilir's act of plagiarism could be due to him wanting to get a high pay job in Tokyo University. However, what he did was wrong. He should work hard to get himself a doctorate so that he can be a professor in Tokyo University. Serkan Anilir should not go about doing it using under hand methods.

Done by: Shirley

Opinions about plagiarism

With reference to the two articles: "Tokyo University to crack down on
plagiarism in theses" and "Schools stress to pupils: No copying".

Plagiarism is the act of using and passing off (the ideas or writings of another) as one's own. (Source: thefreedictionary.com)

Shock is expressed when writings thought to be the best in the cohort are found to be plagiarized. Students who do not rely on their abilities to complete their work deserve to be punished. Teachers could inculcate the good habit into young children, primary school being a good starting point. Therefore, policies should be enforced to restrict plagiarism even in primary schools. This is in reference to the article "Schools stress to pupils: No copying".

Plagiarism is similar to the breaching of Intellectual Property (IP), where people own someone else's work illegally. Both crimes belittle the effort the creator has contributed to work, and discourage others contributing too. This is still excluding staff that worked with the creator. An example is an author, staff being editor, publisher and others. In society, many forms of copying occur. Learning institutions have the responsibility of educating their students that copying is morally unacceptable and illegal.

Policies enforced in learning institutions are strict, thus reminding students not to plagiarize. One point though, is whether teachers have taught all the aspects of plagiarism yet. Some learning institutions advise students not to plagiarize, giving plagiarism a generic definition of "copying wholesale". This is not enough, tips could be given to help students avoid plagiarism too. Therefore, learning institutions may consider enhancing their 'holistic' education with more on teaching plagiarism.

Peer checking could detect plagiarism, other than relying on teachers' intuition and detection software. Some classmates know each other well, and their opinions can be used to supplement teachers' intuition.

Although plagiarism is well-justified to be avoided, there can be unavoidable similarities between works. This could be taken into consideration, even in cases where similarities can be detected. Moreover, in a society where teachers teach tens of students, students may pick up some writing traits from teachers. Although each person may think differently, similar teaching materials decrease variability in thinking. This causes content to become increasingly similar. Thus teachers should rely less on detection software, and more on judgment, to avoid detecting "fake plagiarism".

Plagiarism is a serious issue, deserving of being debated in learning institutions. Currently, it is brought up only when students do projects, theses, among others. Students have work hard to minimize plagiarism, for respect of original creators.

Reduction of plagiarism could result in a more vibrant literacy society, with new creative ideas.

[Added on 6 June 3.33pm- done by Kwee Peng]

Saturday, May 29, 2010

2 Article, Schools stress to pupils: No copying; Tokyo University to crack down on plagiarism in theses

Schools stress to pupils: No copying

I agree that students should not copy the whole paragraph from internet or textbook when doing research or projects because this would not help the students to improve on their presentation. Copying the whole paragraph is easy as it does not require the students to think of how to make it their own answers. Therefore, students would not be learning much in the project if copying of whole paragraph is carried out. Students should try to write out their own paragraph and the paragraph must be link to the evidence they found. This can eventually allow the students to score more marks when he uses evidence to support their own paragraph and not copying the whole paragraph as answer and allow them to remember citation.

To me, I think it is good that primary school started teaching students about citation and plagiarism as it would educate them so as when they step into secondary school, they will remember how serious is citation and plagiarism.

From this sentence,

“Unanimously, all institutions said they relied most on teachers' intuition to spot instances of plagiarism and to take action against the student.”

I suggest that institutions should not relied most on teachers’ intuition to spot instances of plagiarism and to take action against the student because that does not really prove plagiarism. Maybe what the students had typed is similar but however, evidence is still needed to mark the student with plagiarism. Therefore using teachers’ intuition is not quite acceptable.


Tokyo University to crack down on plagiarism in theses

To me, I support the choice of that university as they expelled Anilir from the university as the mistake Anilir does is truly unforgivable. Even if Anilir did not plagiarize, she had falsely claimed to have graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology in the United States and Istanbul Technical University in Turkey. This is seriously unforgivable. Therefore, I support that university choice of expelling Anilir.

Common point between this 2 article

Both article talks about plagiarism and both shows that people uses plagiarism to accomplish their mission. I agree that plagiarism is not a good way of doing work as it does not require the students, people to put in much effort in placing own words in their projects or work as all the paragraphs are given in the internet or textbook.

By: Winston

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

How Singapore Can Stay 'Forever Young'

A strong and forward-looking Government is a very important factor for Singapore to stay 'Forever Young'. Only when the Government are keen to make changes and make the right decision then Singapore can stay 'Forever Young'.

The Government had done successfully to grow the tourism business in Singapore. Places like Sentosa and International Resort were build to attract tourist to visit Singapore. By making Singapore a popular choice for foreigners to visit, Singapore had made a lot of profit out of it. Also Singaporeans get in touch with the foreigners when they visit Singapore. This will help Singaporean to understand other cultures and get in-touch with the world. Thought this Singapore will stay 'Forever Young'.

By holding the international event like the Youth Olympics Game and Formula 1 Race. Singapore will be 'forced' to evolve itself consistently to be one of the most advanced countries in the world. Also, Singaporeans will be influenced and stay tune to the most heat event of the world. Then Singapore can stay 'Forever Young'.

So i think the Government had done a great job in bring such events and building such places to allow Singapore stay 'Forever Young' and then Singapore will be more compatible in the world.

Done By Yang Xin Yu
100622Y Class AB

How can Singapore stay 'Forever Young'

After reading the speech by Deputy PM Teo Chee Hean on how Singapore can stay 'Forever Young' with the five key points raised, I think that having a strong and forward-looking leadership plays the most important role. A strong and forward-looking leader will be able to bring Singapore far into the future. Dr Goh's foresight in keeping Sentosa for recreation instead of selling off to an American multinational company in 1968 was a right choice. Today, Sentosa is a popular tourist attraction and has bring many profits to our country. Another capable leader that led Singapore into today's developed country is Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew. Lee Kuan Yew has led Singapore from a developing country to a developed country. Without Lee Kuan Yew strong and forward-looking leadership, Singapore will not be what it is today. Therefore, a strong and forward-looking leadership is the key on how Singapore can stay 'Forever Young'.

Singapore's opeing of casino in integrated resorts helps Singapore to stay 'Forever Young'. The building of casinos in Singapore will attract more tourists to visit Singapore. Companies from other countries might also be interested to invest money in Singapore. This two facts will lead into an increase in profits for Singapore. The increase in profits will boosts economic bloom in Singapore and the standard of living will increase.

Hosting world-class events like the Youth Olympics and F1 will help promote Singapore. As Singapore is a small country, it needs to promote itself by hosting world-class events so the citizens from other countries will know about the existence of Singapore.

Doing away with exams like the O levels and having longer holidays to promote self-learning is not a good option. Exams like the O levels are necessary in today's society as people have to be educated in order to get hold of a job around the world. Without these exams, people will not have qualifications. Therefore, the literacy will decrease drastically. In this case, Singapore will not be able to stay 'Forever Young'.

By Shirley.

Monday, May 24, 2010

Self-reflection may lead independently to creativity, depression

I do not agree that Self-reflection may lead to creativity.

Creativity is not easy to be captured unless one is born with that talent. If creativity can be nurtured so easily, there would be no “born” creative people in this world as everyone can become creative after going through coursesThis is proven byThe researchers found no direct link between depression and creativity.”

As for depression, I agree that Self-reflection may lead to depression.

Self-reflection after solving some issues or self-reflection when a problem occurs is good but those people that think too much during self-reflection would generally lead to depression. As people think too much, they will assume a number of things. As time goes on, their assumption would deepen and it might lead to wrong thinking of things.

Therefore, I suggest those people that are doing too much of self-reflection to consult psychiatrist before the matter get too serious.

By: Winston

Self-reflection may lead independently to creativity, depression

I do not agree that Self-reflection may lead to creativity.

Creativity is not easy to be captured unless one is born with that talent. If creativity can be nurtured so easily, there would be no “born” creative people in this world as everyone can become creative after going through coursesThis is proven by “The researchers found no direct link between depression and creativity.”

As for depression, I agree that Self-reflection may lead to depression.

Self-reflection after solving some issues or self-reflection when a problem occurs is good but those people that think too much during self-reflection would generally lead to depression. As people think too much, they will assume a number of things. As time goes on, their assumption would deepen and it might lead to wrong thinking of things.

Therefore, I suggest those people that are doing too much of self-reflection to consult psychiatrist before the matter get too serious.

By: Winston

Self-reflection may lead independently to creativity, depression

I do not agree that Self-reflection may lead to creativity.

Creativity is not easy to be captured unless one is born with that talent. If creativity can be nurtured so easily, there would be no “born” creative people in this world as everyone can become creative after going through courses

This is proven by “The researchers found no direct link between depression and creativity”

As for depression, I agree that Self-reflection may lead to depression.

Self-reflection after solving some issues or self-reflection when a problem occurs is good but those people that think too much during self-reflection would generally lead to depression. As people think too much, they will assume a number of things. As time goes on, their assumption would deepen and it might lead to wrong thinking of things.

Therefore, I suggest those people that are doing too much of self-reflection to consult psychiatrist before the matter get too serious.

By: Winston

Upon reading this article I understand how Singapore has been successful in staying young throughout this whole period of time. Singapore has taken 5 key steps in 'staying young' from which having good and key leadership has been one of the most effective one.

Having good leadership is always important for a country like Singapore. Singapore has always been successful in electing good and potential leaders and till today Singapore has been very competitive due to the good leadership practised in this country. Voting strategies practised in Singapore have proven to be very effective. Through this process of voting, capable leaders are always selected during each election. Thus i believe that if Singapore carries on with this process of electing good leaders, it will forever be able to 'stay young'.

Done by: Palwinder Singh Johal

Sunday, May 23, 2010

How S'pore can stay 'Forever Young' opinions

Source of article: http://www.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20100406-208780.html

First, a strong culture of education and learning.
A lot of effort has been put in improving and sustaining the high standards of education in Singapore. Continuing education has been put in place too, apart from school education.

Implemented policies so far are excellent, but focus on the general well-being of staff and students of learning institutions may be compromised.

An attitude to learn and teach has to be supported with favorable circumstances such as adequate rest. Huge amounts of workload and examinations in secondary schools and higher level institutions mean that both teachers and students may feel mentally strained in their duties to teach and learn , respectively. As such, the quality of education may be higher but the mental breakdown and dropout rate rises too. Better balancing of school workload is needed to achieve a more sustainable education system.

Moreover, the education system could be enhanced with a more flexible curriculum, one that shares frequent relevance with daily life and practical situations. Singapore has been frequently accused of embracing rote learning(memorization by repetition).

Instead of teaching students straight from the textbook, teachers could offer scenarios to let students use their knowledge on (eg. The correct and polite way to ask for directions in a foreign country).


Second, a culture of seeking knowledge, innovation and ideas.
In addition to innovation and knowledge creation, observation, querying of pundits from specialized professions and risk-taking is also needed to stay young, as those are characteristics of a young person.

Observation means globally taking currently active and past case studies to examine, finding relationships and disparities, applying in the context of Singapore, and store the information for future research.


Querying of pundits from specialized professions is essential to build critical infrastructure and other industries as no nation has the most brilliant ideas for every aspect of society.

Furthermore, just plain querying may not be efficient enough, it is best that there is a committee to discuss the most critical policies to implement.


Risk-taking is a very important part of 'being young'. Singapore is well-known for being pragmatic, but aside from taking the most obvious routes to take, like creating a Research and Development (R&D) hub, Singapore could do something unprecedented to increase its prominence in the R&D industry. An example would be implementing R&D as projects in learning institutions, for their own usage.


Three, for Singapore to be a vibrant global city - a city where people want to live, work and play - it also has to be an environmentally sustainable city.
Crowding and environmental problems are indeed potentially harmful for Singapore's city development plans. A recent article Is Singapore the worst environmental offender?' on Asiaone.com explains the environmental harms that urban development has brought Singapore.

Places to improve on would be more friendly bonding activities for city people to enjoy, religious gatherings.


One key trait of Singapore being vibrant and young is that Singaporeans have to see themselves as one nation, embrace helpful foreign factors and be more happy. Thus, aside from National Education and persuasion to welcome foreign workers and settlers, rules and regulations could be made more flexible, and quality of helplines and counseling services raised.

Four, a magnet for talent
Talent can be based on various abilities, come in the form of ideas, or inspirational roles. While it's essential to bring in talent that fulfills Singapore's obvious needs of political, business and sports talents, it is important to source for people who can inspire ordinary workers to work harder.

Being 'young' means that discrimination should be removed among foreign entities and the word 'talent' be as diversified as possible. Subsidies and aid should be given to foreigners who have a need, to encourage them to work strive for Singapore's future together.


Five, a strong and forward-looking leadership.
Leadership can be enhanced at lower levels before further developing it on the national level, which has been incorporated into the education system.

What is still lacking is the mild atmosphere of the political scene. Leadership should be reinforced by not only similar and agreeing opinions but opposing ones as well. No leader is perfect, and thus leadership includes embracing various viewpoints from all sectors of the economy.

Finally, the way in which leadership is replaced by another person/ committee should not only be based off the top rung of society, but also be subject to the opinions of the minority and all parts of the society.



Being 'Forever Young' is possible, but much depends on both internal and external circumstances. One wrong step may result in catastrophes, what matters is our response to it.
By Kwee Peng


Friday, May 21, 2010

How S'pore can stay 'Forever Young'

First, a strong culture of education and learning.
I agree that Singapore has a strong culture of education and learning and students are learning well. However, sometimes there are students that find it very difficult to learn. Therefore, I suggest that MOE can help students learn better by creating a new school specially for those students that are slower in learning. If fact, students can go to that school every weekend or so to learn better.
Next is the workers. Some workers does not have the capability to pay to learn. Therefore i suggest that Government can create some Sponsorship to aid the workers to pay for learning. E.g. Government can find organisation to add funds and the funds are used to help workers for basic learning such as English language.

Second, a culture of seeking knowledge, innovation and ideas.
I do not agree with this sentence spread their passion for research, and nurture and groom young scientists among our top students. If only the top students are given chance to become better, how about those people that are interested in this but are unable to achieve due to poor in studies? Therefore, i suggest that Government can get the top scientist to groom our top students and those students that are not very good in academic result but are interested should be given a chance to try it out, at least become a lab assistant. This would then allow everyone to be able to do what they want to do.

Three, for Singapore to be a vibrant global city - a city where people want to live, work and play - it also has to be an environmentally sustainable city.
Although Singapore have the opportunity to be at the forefront of successful urban living - which is connected, safe, sustainable and socially integrated, Singapore must still stay green to keep the environment clean and healthy for everyone to live. As the speech said that the world consumed over 75 per cent of its natural resources, therefore Singaporean must do their job by reducing the waste of natural resources. I suggest that Government can create one day when everyone does not need to work and carry out a "Green Day" event. This event is not the same as all the previous "Go Green" day. This event is that everyone in their household take out those things that are no longer useful and are able to be recycled and bring it down to their household nearby Community Center. All the Community Center would then send those things to a particular area for collection. The items would then be sent to recycle. This would help Singapore to be a clean and green country.

Four, a magnet for talent.
In order to increase birth rate, I suggest that Government can come up with a "Babies Needed" plan. In this plan, Government can suggest that if a couple give birth to their first babies, they would receive a sum of money as baby bonus. For those couple that are too poor even to feed themselves, Government can provide subsidies for their children and also maybe give them a sum of money per year to aid them to feed the baby. Government can also provide jobs to those poor people so that they are able to put food on the table.
For attracting foreign talent, Government can also provide a special immigrate plan for foreign talent, such as securing them a place to stay. This would be able to attract foreign talent to Singapore.
For local talent, Government can also provide chance to those people that are really very talented in doing something and send them out of Singapore to learn from foreigner and come back when they have completed the course. This can enhance Singapore's number of local talent. With local talent, only minimum number of foreign talent is needed.

Five, a strong and forward-looking leadership.
Every time when there is a selection of ministers, almost all the Singaporean have a chance to vote. However, I suggest that selection of ministers should not rely only on citizens voting. Prime Minister and President should also cast their vote. Because only the higher authority people know how well those people under the selection of ministers does their job. If the citizens voting resulted in a low leadership minister, it would definitely harm the country's future.

Above is my comment and suggest towards the article "How Singapore can stay 'Forever Young'"

By Winston

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Singaporeans split on Mother Tongue Weighting

PSLE Mother Tongue weighting should not be reduced.

Statistic shows that Mother Tongue language has remained relatively stable over the past 10 years. In 2009, 98 per cent of the PSLE candidates passed their Mother Tongue language. Out of the 98 per cent, 13 per cent scored A-stars, 69 per cent scored A's, 11 per cent scored B's and 5 per cent scored C's. This result shows that the Mother Tongue weighting is not very high thus, it should not be reduced.

Mother Tongue may be our second language however, it is equally important as English. In today's society, being proficient in English is not enough. you also have to be preficient in your Mother Tongue language. In the business world, being able to communicate in English in not sufficient. You need to use Mother Tongue language to communicate with business partners from Chinese oriented countries like China.

Mother Tongue language is not only needed in the busniess world, but in our daily life. Older generation people like our great grandparents and grandparents whom are mostly Chinese educated, are not able to speak in English. Therefore, we are not able to communicate with them in English. In this case, Mother Tongue is essential for us to communicate with them.

Chinese, Malay and Indian culture have to be preserved for the future generations. Nowadays, Mother Tongue languages are not commonly practiced by the younger generations. If this continues on with the future generations, then in years to come, Chinese, Malay and Indian culture will be loss.

In conclusion, reducing the Mother Tongue weighting will be disadvantageous to the students in the future. If the weighting for the Mother Tongue language is reduced, students will think that Mother Tongue is not important in today's society, which is not the fact. Therefore, they will choose mot to learn Mother Tongue or to further improve on it.

Done by: Shirley

Singaporeans split on Mother Tongue Weighting

In the past ten years, the government had repeatedly update the Mother Tongue education. With the help of the Mother Tongue teachers, the results had grown rapidly. The number of students who take Higher Chinese had grown 25% over the years, which is a good sign. So why must Singapore low the weight-age of Mother Tongue subjects?

Singapore is a muti-curtual country. All races and four Languages are equal. By lower the weight-age of the Mother Tongue subjects, it is creating some kind unfairness. Also, it has a very important circumstances, the culture.

Language is not just a tool to communicate but a way to pass down cultures. A man who do not know his own mother tongue may lost his own culture easily. An English speaking Chinese family can be an example. Family members tent to live in a Western way and behave in a Western way. Theres nothing wrong with this but these people had failed to pass down their own cultures and traditions to the next generation, and sadly, this is happening in many Singapore families.

Mother Tongue may be a difficult subject to study for some students and it plays an important role through out their educations. At the same time, the government can not afford its people to lost their own culture. i totally disagree with the lower weight-age for Mother Tongue subjects for PSLE. Singapore can not afford its people to know lesser about their culture at such a young age since we already know very little. However, if theres really a need, I will only tacitly approve it for higher education levels such as the university, where students already built enough mother tongue foundations in their past educations.

By Yang Xin Yu 100622Y

Monday, May 17, 2010

Singaporeans split on Mother Tongue Weighting

Upon reading this article, I have got the basic knowledge on the current situation of the academic sector in Singapore. Some citizens are keen on reducing the weightage for the Mother Tongue Language but I do not support this idea. From the start, Mother Tongue has been a key part of a students academic journey. The subject not only allows a student to communicate well but also identify his or her roots of origin. The subject would also provide the students with a sense of identity and belonging.

However the reason behind why many Singaporeans want the Mother Tongue weighting to be reduced is not baseless either. Reducing the subject's weighting would also help to reduce the tension and stress on students. It would give them more time to concentrate on the other subjects.

In conclusion, I personally feel that Mother Tongue has been an important part of the academic scene in Singapore and should carry on to be an important part as the subject holds a lot of importance. In the future, the students may need to communicate with people of their own origins for work or for relations and thus the subject is of great importance.

Done By: Palwinder Singh Johal

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Singaporeans split on Mother Tongue weighting

After reading this article, it helps me understand that why some Singaporeans like to reduce Mother Tongue weighting in exams. However to me, reducing the Mother Tongue weighting in exams causes students to reducing their knowledge on their racial language.

If Mother Tongue weighting is decreased, some students will have the mindset of since Mother Tongue weighting is not high in exams, they does not need to focus so much on that subject. This will naturally causes the students to reduce in learning their racial language and students that would like to work overseas would be unable to communicate well with their business friends.
E.g: A Chinese guy that went to china to work and he is unable to write and speak in proper chinese would causes him to be laughed by his China friends.

Being a race such as Chinese, Malay and Indian, it would be a shame to other country's citizens as Singaporean ourself doesn't even know how to speak our racial language. This would then causes Singapore reputation as a Multi-religious country to drop. Foreign will think that although Singapore is a multi-religious Country, citizens cannot even speak properly their religious language. This causes foreigners to have the question of 'How can a Singaporean of a race does not know how to speak or write in their racial language?'.

From the article,

"Communications consultant Monica Lim, 40, holds an opposing view.
In her blog, 'Of Kids and Education', she argues that reduced Mother Tongue weighting would help lessen exam stress on the bulk of students who come from English-speaking homes."

About the above statement made by Communications Consultant Monica Lim, me myself think that if Mother Tongue weighting is reduced, the other subject weighting would increase to make the total weighting of the exam back to the original value. When weighting of the other subject increases, students will also get stress that they are required to score better in the rest of the subject. Therefore, in my opinion, I myself do not agree with the statement made by Communications Consultant Monica Lim.

With respond to this article, I myself suggest that Mother Tongue weighting should not be changed so proper ways of writing or speaking racial languages would be maintained in Singapore.

By: Winston Goh

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

S'poreans split on Mother Tongue weighting

The uproar over the Mother Tongue weighting issue could be easily understood. Mother Tongue teachers would be adversely affected, one core aspect of Singapore's Education system would be greatly impacted, and this issue could open a Pandora's Box.

Firstly, decreasing the Mother Tongue weighting would encourage students floundering in their mother tongue languages to give up studying them. Many students are already taking the easy routes by taking Chinese B etc., and some in universities cannot even speak or write a decent level of Mother Tongue.

Enforcing this change in the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) is especially detrimental, as higher levels of education would be affected by it too. This is especially true for impressionable children.

Mother Tongue teachers would probably bear the brunt of the change. Students may be less interested to take Chinese at higher levels as weightings drop. Consequently, less Mother Tongue teachers may be needed, leading to less promotion opportunities and job chances for Mother Tongue teachers.

One core Singapore policy is multiculturalism, thus maintaining proficiency in Mother Tongue is crucial. Bilingualism would be affected too, as students can take Mother Tongue more lightly, and this could affect future language policies.

A Pandora's Box could result, affecting other academic subjects, or further degenerates Mother Tongue.

Finally, reducing Mother Tongue weighting would also affect the Chinese language adversely. The Singaporean government has been encouraging Singaporeans to increase their Chinese language proficiency for trading in China, so reducing the Chinese language weighting is detrimental for the society.

However, the opposing viewpoint that the weighting should be reduced could be considered carefully.

Most subjects in schools are taught in English, and Mother Tongue is hardly used in Tertiary Education. Mother Tongue languages require substantial time and effort to acquire a decent level of, as examinations test the knowledge of several facets of the (mostly) secondary languages.

Moreover, many students are floundering in their Mother Tongue languages, whereas they excel in other English-based subjects. Such an effect causes many excellent students to suffer in grades, begetting resentment.

Reviewing both viewpoints, I disagree reducing the Mother Tongue weighting as the harms far outweigh the benefits. Although studying Mother Tongue may be difficult, retaining it in the society is fundamental in our multicultural society. Students should learn to take on obstacles instead of taking the easy way out, like giving up when they cannot score well in Mother Tongue, and weighting encourages them to do so.


By Kwee Peng

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

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