the cycle of cocks hiring cocks

"We’ve taught our students to treat exams like we treat job interviews: we tell them to be more worried about presenting the right answers than actually learning the topic. The culture of grade-chasing is mainly created by Singapore’s employers, not MOE. In fact, so long as companies refuse to look beyond paper qualifications, many parents will freak if MOE shifts emphasis off grades." (Ad-hoc tuition is reflecting our bad attitude towards education)

always felt tuition is a form of subverted meritocracy. kids sit for the same exams yes, but they're prepared for the exams in different ways; parents then argue meritocracy allows them the financial advantage to advantage their kids.

i've actually hired a person (shan't name names) who lied through the interview to get the job. and it's not uncommon to hear people condone that because they claim it's more important to get the job first then learn the required skills.

like i say, the many hirers who disregard extracurricular records and out-of-the-box thinking are probably robotic losers of the system themselves. don't be disheartened because you'll go further than them.

meeting Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate for Literature

the old purpose of education was the manipulation of knowledge towards a utopia of classlessness. but philistinism among others has turned education and re-education into a primary tool for indoctrination. statehood is artificial and a concept by victors. statehood breeds class divisions. class divisions mean hegemony and struggle. fundamentalism and extremism like the Daish emerge. people take flight to safety of states. states become stronger, and the vicious cycle continues. curiously, the "Islamic State" moniker reinforces both religion as divisions and the state as an ideal. the media, in that sense, "plays footsy with terror" by indulging their preferred name instead of the more degrading "Daish".