tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28086856.post1605219361590181705..comments2024-03-20T01:42:13.273+08:00Comments on Eight percent per annum: Value investing in Singapore stocks: Problems and Solutions to Singapore’s Education System – Part 3Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03292158817395898619noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28086856.post-9970962539385611032012-03-08T00:04:00.826+08:002012-03-08T00:04:00.826+08:00I don't think teachers are paid lowly in Spore...I don't think teachers are paid lowly in Spore. It was reported in TST two teachers (husband & wife)aged 29 & 32 with a monthly combined income of S$9,000. Even a US professor wished that their country can pay their teachers as well as us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28086856.post-16954827717373424842011-10-15T10:42:46.206+08:002011-10-15T10:42:46.206+08:00As I see it, the education industry (worldwide) it...As I see it, the education industry (worldwide) itself is ripe for disruption itself once people realize that the hundreds of thousands of dollars they invested in their schooling will not be able to obtain the desired results - a good job and the life they want from it.<br /><br />While usually I stand on the progressive left spectrum, on this issue, I actually vehemently disagree with any attempt to reign in private tuition via government regulation. <br /><br />In fact, I want the situation to become so bad that it shines a light into the dark pits that is Singapore's education system and how poor it is in preparing our children for their future and that the whole thing is just an expensive exercise in elitism and artificial scarcity.<br /><br />Once people start realizing how pathetic public education systems around the world are and the well-off have long abandoned it to search for real education in the open market, then the impetuous for true reform will be generated.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com