Re: [ossig] (Fwd) STI News: Firm discovers good IT help hard to find

[Vincent Lee <leehongfay@yahoo.com>]

> In Asian culture (and maybe some other cultures)
> being a doctor is a 
> very respectable profession. Its like you're one
> above the others. 
> But looking at other cultures (hint: let's get
> exposure), you notice 
> that doctors are just as well respected as police
> men or bus drivers 
> (how much respect do Malaysians give to our police
> force, or even the 
> bus drivers?)

On this note, I am not sure if this is the voice of
majority, may be my social circle of friends are
unique.. but most of my friends have respect for any
professions..... As long as a person don't cheat,
bully, etc to gain unlawful means.... no one should be
despised..

> Is this actually the case in the Malaysian education
> scene? From what 
> I have heard, and from even what I have seen from my
> peers, it's a 
> far cry from all the analytical skills we want our
> graduates (from 
> school) to have.
> 
> Does he learn the rules (or memorise it?)? Does he
> understand the 
> concept (or is he told to memorise the concept?) ?
> 
> With a sponge-like memory, he can be quick, but is
> he efficient to 
> our workforce? Probably not. Practice does make
> perfect, but 
> committing to memory forcibly does nothing positive.

I grew up in malaysia, went thru the malaysian
education system..... and I have seen many friends do
the same.

Are you saying that,
"students who can memorize a lot, do not have
impressive analytical skills"?

In my humble opinion,
"students who can memorize like sponge, can memorize
well"

"students who do not have analytical skills, do not
have analytical skills"

"students who can memorize like sponge, may or may not
have impressive analytical skills"

Since we agree that practice makes perfect, I will not
continue on this one. Analytical skills need to be
nurtured and practised too. It is not born. If a
person don't use it often, he/she will lose it. 

Again, if you talk about history, memorizing isn't
just remembering each word in the text book, or have
photographic memory. I think, smart students do well
in exams because they ANALYSE what is important, what
is not important, and practise on understanding of
physics, maths etc... may or may not be from text
books. etc..

by the way, I think practice != memorize.
A simple example is badminton game, the players need
to practise in order to play well, but they cannot
memorize the games... you may then argue that
badminton game is not academics. In my opinion, you
may memorize formulas, you may memorize tables, but i
think there's not way to memorize when it comes
solving certain questions.
I have no doubt that in typical exams, there are
questions meant for people with brain but lazy to
study (common sense questions), there are questions
that reward stupid but hardworking people who memorize
everything, there are also questions that reward
people who practise a lot, hence have the speed to
complete certain questions quickly, there are also
questions that require thinking. So, to say that all
questions require only memorization is not that
true...
 
> I put it to you: would you rather have an employee
> that scored a pass 
> in a subject say for algorithms, but still remembers
> all the 
> pseudocode, etc... or would you rather have an
> employee that scored a 
> distinction in the same subject, but he just
> memorised the code, in a 
> language he was being taught it in - say Java (okay,
> bad example, say 
> C or something)?

I would have an employee who never studied algorithm,
and yet can think out of the box to produce an
algorithm. I would also get en employee who can learn
quickly, understand quickly, and be able to deliver. I
am not worried if they have a pass, or a distinction
in algorithms.

> These are just my opinions... My 2 sen is free.
> --

my humble opinions are free as well :-)


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