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Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 11:22:00 PM
The lack of proper public speaking skills of singapore's youth these days? A cultural shortcoming? or a lack of proper education channels? - Well my topic is rather vague for this post, but seeing it as a rather common occurence in my everyday life i find it a rather interesting notion. - I first begin off with this question, among your peers, or the people you know, how many do not actually stutter, or are able to convey their messages accurately, when speaking to a large group of people? Well to be honest, for me, i'd have to say actually most of my friends are not that good at public speaking, nor are they really able to talk to a large crowd. - Well giving an example, a lecturer of mine actually encourages students presenting the solutions to rather complicated questions, and out of the numerous who volunteered, only a handful were able to explain how they came about answering the solution. The rest? They haphazardly breezes through pages of mathematical calculations, often mumbling to themselves, and are not able to fully explain themselves when asked questions. - While of course not everyone have the quality of a teacher or born to be a public speaker, but i feel that singaporeans generally shun or are unable to represent themselves in front of many others. - I guess another commonly observed trait is that we on the whole often keep opinions or questions to ourselves. Another example would be when students are asked questions, they either would feint ignorance, or simply saying that they don't know the answer. - For me, i believe that this "traits" is due to a combination of both the cultural aspect of asians, a rather lack of developement in youth education. For chinese at least, we are more reserved in expressing ourselves, as compared to other cultures who are open and chatty. Also, from my experience of my younger years of education, it was a rather "spoon fed" sort of learning, where the teacher would teach, while it is our duty to listen attentively. I suppose a discussion based type of teaching on a regular basis would actually promote students to be more open to dicussing things in the open, not keeping to themselves. - What do you think? Do you think singaporean youths these days are also lacking the ability to express themselves in public? =] - Cheers! P.S. hope what i typed wasn't too abstract hehe. |
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