On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 21:17, Seah Hong Yee wrote: > As someone in this list will attest, there's a general lack of research spirit > in local higher education institution. Most people just want to graduate and > move on. Few would love to develop and experiment on things. The problem I > think is our education system don't necessarily encourage people to think. I > don't mean people know don't think, it's just thank this spirit is not > nurture from young. The biggest problem is, we are in a system that don't > encourage people to ask question, it is like a taboo. And when we do > encourage people to ask question, we often only like to limit them to ask > certain kind of questions. I don't think that is possible. You might have read this already: http://www.reciprocality.org/Reciprocality/r0/ But Malaysia seems to be stuck in a packer mindset, which really doesn't translate well in a knowledge (and thinking) based economy. -- "Optimized, readable, on time; Pick any two." FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT i386 9:28PM up 6 days, 2:29, 1 user, load averages: 0.23, 0.13, 0.09
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