I was packing up the room when I chanced upon a set of JC GP notes which, upon a quick glance, bore a sub-heading “The Easier Approach”. That struck me rather hard, and what struck even harder was that under that section recommended writing for one side of a typically two-way essay. Either way, this kept me pondering for the rest of the night.

Our students in this current system, have been infused with the mindset of doing things the easy, tested and proven way. It becomes instinctive in them. In a system where people vie to outsmart one another, people vie blindly. They devise uncanny tactics which inhibit true thought, and more importantly, learning.

My fellowmen deserve the right to be thought how to think, not to be told what to think. They shouldn’t be coerced into a path of thought just because it gives them the end-result. No one is too young to have their minds let free to roam around the plains of thought. If the brain is dead by not thinking, it must be a vegetable by being told what to think – there is no considerable difference.

There is no actual knowledge took away from constitutional education nowadays. Almost everything learnt in the classroom, the bulk being exam-skills used to trick examiners and trump classmates, lingers just around the campus. Little or no knowledge about how to think is brought to the workplace, if any to begin with.

That, my friends, is the bane of our system, workforce, community, society, and eventually, legislation.