What does a army general know about education?

[Weez911]

the president's scholar is not necessarily the brightest student among the scholars. Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't.

Generally, the grades of the scholars are all very close.

 

My thoughts are my own. Just as your belief is your own. Just that in our cultural context, i don't think someone academically average is going to be seen as a political leader.

I'm thinking more in terms of someone's work achievement after getting that degree, and I'm not relating to an artificial career path for the likes of our scholars. I'm referring to the cold hard world here. History tends to remember a great for his or her work rather than his studies results right?

 

Also, some people are late bloomers, some people do well in studies but not in the real world (think NOL and SMRT CEO). I have worked in companies with more than 1000 headcount and I have seen people with platinum academic background received poor appraisals, and vice versa.

 

My point remains the same. We should not just get primarily people with good results from their school days into the cabinet.

[Sosaria]

forget it guys. If you want to stay here, accept life. No point working so hard when you are not a scholar. No way you can get to the top because every few years, there will be someone parachute in to take over your organization. They can be elite from SAF, or from other countries who is here as Expat. We can only make coffee for them, suck up to them, whether they really have the knowledge to run the show, nobody knows. I only have respect for a few ministers here, Tharman, LHL, HSK, TCH, NEH and I don't think others really get my respect, especially those young ones, and the 2 which recently just promoted to full minister, really a joke. Succession not like that do one in my opinion. 1 year got experience as minister. Seat haven't even warm yet, don't even know each processes in the ministry yet, can become minister. Super joke of the year.

 

Let me tell you that even if you are a scholar, there's no guarantee you can rise to the highest posts in the civil or public service. Many people seem to have this misconception that the road is paved for scholars. Forgetting that there are actually many scholarship recipients competing for the same plum positions, so the work that each individual does, and also networking skills, EQ, play a large part in moving them upwards - just like in any other job even in private sector.

 

Not to mention that not everyone likes to be the boss and take up greater responsibilities and answer more things. Some prefer to stay at operational level being good at what they do, and sticking to familiar ground.

 

It's also not the end of the world if you don't get the top job. Make it to managerial level, already can enjoy (in)decent salary for the work you actually do  

Edited November 2, 2016 by Sosaria