You won’t learnt much studying in Singapore. This is because you are not educated. You are trained. Critical discussions are not the norm of the curriculum. There are many better institutions to learn from other than Singapore. It is a heavily test-focused system.

Most Singaporeans do not remember what they learnt in school as Singapore promotes rote-learning and not discussion-based learning. It engages chalk and talk teacher-student question and answers – replace the chalk with a whiteboard marker. In fact, question and answer seldom occurs as it`s mostly lecture style. Seminars have a nice ring to them but the approach is the same.

The problem is fundamentally political. It’s hegemonic application of maintaining political power has produced a culture that does not permit the questioning of authority or critical questions. Schools avoid creating curriculums that involve critical questioning of policies, systems, values, race, religion, etc. It’s a pressure cooker school and university system that manages to hide behind international rankings through chopping the heads of those faculty members who can’t meet the requirements to hit the international university chart rankings.

With such a system, Nobel winners will never exist in Singapore – same goes for it winning the World Cup. Japan produces dozens of Nobel winners because it has a freer and more democratic political system. The society is the product of its education system. Look around you. Why are so many elderly working in their end-of-life stage here? Most Singaporeans can’t have subsistence retirement.