RE: [ossig] (Fwd) STI News: Firm discovers good IThelp hard to f ind

[Seah Hong Yee <hongyee@polyscientific.com.my>]

Teoh, 

Something I ponder on this quite often also. The thing is, it is
difficult to do this even on the university level. TO do well in
society, you need not only technical skill, you need social skills and
other related skill as well. Unless you are someone who work in some
place where performance is guage corrently, your knowledge and expertise
is appreciated and no politics involve. We all know this will never be
true unless you live in a near perfect society something like in Star
Trek. 

I sometimes am not sure if all the 9A's students are from the same
basket. You have those that study hard and don't do much else except
study. Everytime I look back, I feel that this type of lifestyle is a
perverted lifestyle that may not do much in terms readying these people
for society. You may be a good person to memorize things but what will
it come to when you work? do you know how to apply them ? 

When I first went overseas, I find myself memorizing almost everything
in the book but always do badly in classes. I later learn to understand
what I was studying and actually have more time to spend on social life
and did well in all my classes. 

In North America, you often get people that never even graduate from
colleges that are development manager. Some of the best sys admin I know
never even have a CS degree but they are much better than any CS major I
know. 
 


> hong yee,  interesting point  ... i did ask myself the significance
> /value of my suggestion last night after my post.
> 
> i guess my view is .... irrespective of what they did in university,
> what's their career finally (these 9As achievers ),  what did they
> finally do  10 years down the track.  This is nolonger just about
> university and IT.  Did the bulk of these achievers become the pillars
> of our society ?  Are they any different, in the final analysis from
> those who did not get 9As ?
> 
> 
> I look at my nieces and nephews...the inhumanely hours they spent on
> school work and tuition  .. it is almost a childhood lost ... they spent
> so many hours achieving these As ... maybe only to discover years later
> that it (probably) wasn't necessary.  Will they then question if it was
> right thing their parents put them thru' ?  you can buy many things with
> status and money ....but you can't buy a childhood lost .....
> 
> ah ... maybe i am getting philosophical about this ...
> 
> my .02 cents ....
> 
> rgds   engsin teoh
> 
> "childhood comes only once in a lifetime ... ah .. to look at the world
> without prejudice ... to enjoy rolling on padang for what it is ...." 
> 
> 
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