Chan Chun Sing's daughter learnt Chaos Theory in Secondary 2
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SINGAPORE – Upset with the pressure-cooker education system here and the obsession with academic grades? Don’t be too quick to “blame the system�, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Chan Chun Sing said on Friday (Nov 24).
The minister added: “We can be the agents of change, rather than waiting for the system to change … The choice is entirely ours.�
Citing a personal example, Mr Chan recalled how his daughter had once asked him, when she was in Secondary Two, to explain the chaos theory – a concept he had learnt only in university.
He then asked the audience whether, as a parent, one ought to try to teach the concept or call up the school to demand to know why were they were teaching it and “wasting my child’s time� in secondary school.
How a parent responded to such situations would teach a child a different value, the minister told his audience at the NTUC Centre Auditorium.
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