Slumdog Millionaire
Did you know that Slumdog Millionaire was inspired by a particular educational research? The movie is based on a book, “Q & A” by Vikas Swarup who said that he was inspired by the “Hole-in-the-Wall project”.
Creativity in Schools
This video is an animated version of Sir Ken Robinson’s talk on creativity and the role of schools. The gist of his talk: “We are educating people out of their creativity”. He claims that this is because of standardisation in education. Education has become like a factory production line, where students are “manufactured” like batches of products. As a result, creativity has suffered. Therefore, he says that education should focus on “divergent thinking”, thinking about many solutions, not just one
Social Mobility – How does it affect us?
If we look at those who lived in 1- to 3-room HDB flats at Primary 1, we find that 1 in 5 of these students score in the top-third in the PSLE and the same proportion, 1 in 5, score within the top one-third of every O- and A-Level cohort.