Tuesday, 14 June 2011
be-cause
ultimately we admire people not for what they have but what they do with what they have. no one admires something that is given but only what is earned. I.e i don't admire edison for his intelligence or ingenuity, i admire him for his tenacity.
Monday, 6 June 2011
Arts is different from Science
in that it cannot be quantified.
The moment it is or attempted to be, it isn't art anymore. You would have created some other form of entity. Anything, but art.
Art is fluid.
Art is formless.
Art is.... an Art in itself.
Art shouldn't be graded, but appreciated for what it is.
Grading art is like grading humans (which is what we do)
but is, when you think about it, stupid and illogical considering that we are all different.
created differently. it's like grading a snake for how much milk it can produce.
or grading a cow for how much venom it can produce. it just doesnt make sense.
and yes although humans do not differ as largely from each other as cows do from snakes, it is almost to that level of differentiation when it comes to natural innate abilities and talents.
oh but then, we come to this whole nature vs nurture debate.
are leaders born? or are they made?
Sure you could probably get venom out of a cow provided you place it into a situation of GREAT DISTRESS which is exactly what i am feeling now when i have to study in a CERTAIN WAY in order to obtain an 'A'. The WAY in which the markers deem as the right one. it is the EXPECTED one from a student after he/she has spent 2 years in pre-uni. the ONE in which i am still unable to wrap my head around. ARGH. why?
You know what i hate?
The whole, formal education, having a cert equates to one being useful to society.
This would have been great if not for formal education being so messed up.
firstly, testing methods are all.... wrong. what on earth does an expected ans even mean??
Why do i have to write in a certain way?? think in a certain way?? structure in a certain way??
Quote egs in a certain way?? Sigh.
we study just to ace an exam. not to learn.
that is how it is right now.
sad but true.
In class so often i hear, "write more in this section because this is where you can score marks".
they dont teach you to be evaluative and analytical, rather they tell you where to spend your words on, in order to score well which is in the evaluative and analytical section.
It has all become about technicality which is most probably brought about by an innate sense of pragmatism.
"You don't score well, you can't get anywhere in life. Full Stop."
So typically Singaporean.
I wish we could just move on from this age of pragmatism and onto something better.
Something more worth being driven by.
Sigh. JC has turned me into this anti-establishment person.
oh well, enough said, words alone never changed the world.
Time for some action.
Time to..........................
study. (haha! oh the irony.)
The moment it is or attempted to be, it isn't art anymore. You would have created some other form of entity. Anything, but art.
Art is fluid.
Art is formless.
Art is.... an Art in itself.
Art shouldn't be graded, but appreciated for what it is.
Grading art is like grading humans (which is what we do)
but is, when you think about it, stupid and illogical considering that we are all different.
created differently. it's like grading a snake for how much milk it can produce.
or grading a cow for how much venom it can produce. it just doesnt make sense.
and yes although humans do not differ as largely from each other as cows do from snakes, it is almost to that level of differentiation when it comes to natural innate abilities and talents.
oh but then, we come to this whole nature vs nurture debate.
are leaders born? or are they made?
Sure you could probably get venom out of a cow provided you place it into a situation of GREAT DISTRESS which is exactly what i am feeling now when i have to study in a CERTAIN WAY in order to obtain an 'A'. The WAY in which the markers deem as the right one. it is the EXPECTED one from a student after he/she has spent 2 years in pre-uni. the ONE in which i am still unable to wrap my head around. ARGH. why?
You know what i hate?
The whole, formal education, having a cert equates to one being useful to society.
This would have been great if not for formal education being so messed up.
firstly, testing methods are all.... wrong. what on earth does an expected ans even mean??
Why do i have to write in a certain way?? think in a certain way?? structure in a certain way??
Quote egs in a certain way?? Sigh.
we study just to ace an exam. not to learn.
that is how it is right now.
sad but true.
In class so often i hear, "write more in this section because this is where you can score marks".
they dont teach you to be evaluative and analytical, rather they tell you where to spend your words on, in order to score well which is in the evaluative and analytical section.
It has all become about technicality which is most probably brought about by an innate sense of pragmatism.
"You don't score well, you can't get anywhere in life. Full Stop."
So typically Singaporean.
I wish we could just move on from this age of pragmatism and onto something better.
Something more worth being driven by.
Sigh. JC has turned me into this anti-establishment person.
oh well, enough said, words alone never changed the world.
Time for some action.
Time to..........................
study. (haha! oh the irony.)
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