Mandarin BIG mistake,next FT policy?

[Nice-Gook]

Nabei,CCB !---the old fart now says this after destroying so many lives---After ten years is he gonna say FT is his biggest mistake?---and that too only after one of his grandchildren kenna screwed by a FT?

INTELLIGENCE does not necessarily translate into a flair for languages

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</td></tr></tbody></table>That was the lesson Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said he learnt in implementing the bilingual policy in schools. 'Initially, I believed that intelligence was equated to language ability. Later, I found that they are two different attributes - IQ and a facility for languages. My daughter, a neurologist, confirmed this,' he said in an interview carried in Petir, the People's Action Party magazine.Asked to pick policies he would have implemented differently, he cited the teaching of bilingualism, especially in English and Mandarin, as the most difficult policy.'I did not know how difficult it was for a child from an English-speaking home to learn Mandarin,' he said.'If you are speaking English at home and you are taught Mandarin in Primary 1 by Chinese teachers who teach Mandarin as it was taught in the former Chinese schools, by the direct method, using only Mandarin, you will soon lose interest because you do not understand what the teacher is saying.

 

[Nice-Gook]

Latest comments <table class="Post" style="width: 100%;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align: top;" align="left">Surprise that it is only now that MM Lee realise this mistake in the policy. How many lives have been changed/distroyed by this policy. How many good minds were wasted in Singapore becasue of the insistance of the 2nd language. It is not so much that you must learn it but your academic future is distroyed if you fail your 2nd langauge. It is a case of using the stick instead of the carrot. Mandarin is fine as a conversational langauge but not appropriate as a technical, scientific, medical or legal language. Many native Mandarin speakers do not know many of the terms in these disciplines. If this policy is removed, how much better would be the results of the weaker students instead of using say 80% of their energy trying to pass Chinese???

Many Singaporeans do not have have a decent command of English let alone Mandarin. Singaporeans must be best at everything. One is not good enough. Many foreigners who are coming into Singapore are getting around this policy. They do not have the same burdens placed on Singapore Citizens.
</td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top;" align="left">Posted by: mkhheng at Tue Nov 03 18:54:46 SGT 2009
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[Tiu Kwang Yew]

.....next FT policy............there will be no mistake but race riots alredi ! old fart cannot see the bloody mistake , he will be at the 18th hell

 

[makapaaa]

In short, this Lau CB has been designing his policies to suit his Familee. He even has the gall to 'praise' his princess for 'discovering' yet another new theory!

 

[Watchman]

He even has the gall to 'praise' his princess for 'discovering' yet another new theory!

Not only he allows "his own" to discover it .

He allows his own to patent it but disallows other from doing so .

 

[Tiu Kwang Yew]

people not pigs, their life at stake !

Now then said his daugher confirmed this and that, then where were all the high-paid advisors ????!!!!!

wah, daughter is queen is it, now she said this, and the answer is too late.
so whose head must be chopped off ? KNN !

In short, this Lau CB has been designing his policies to suit his Familee. He even has the gall to 'praise' his princess for 'discovering' yet another new theory!