Time Out

Time is learning's warden. Our time-bound mentality has fooled us all into believing that schools can educate all the people all the time in a school year of 180 days of 6 hours each. The consequence of our self-deception has been to ask the impossible of our students: We expect them to learn as much as their counterparts abroad in only half the time. If experience, research, and common sense teach nothing else, they confirm the truism that people learn at different rates, and in different ways with different subjects.
-  Christopher Cross

Meneliti petikan di atas, menguji keyakinan kita terhadap kemampuan sistem pendidikan kita untuk menampung kepelbagaian untuk menyediakan modal insan masa depan.  Kini keupayaan kita sebagai pendidik menggarap 'multiple-intelligences' melalui pendekatan kadar kendiri dan terarah kendiri benar-benar tercabar.  Ini memerlukan semakan semula peranan semua pihak yang turut terlibat secara langsung dan tidak langsung terhadap pendidikan seperti media massa, ibubapa, masyarakat, institusi sosial dan lain.  Sebagai contoh, mungkinkah rancangan TV turut disediakan berdasarkan kurikulum pendidikan?

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