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When the PAP reward system is based solely on the exam grades, how do you expect parents to think otherwise? Go for grades at the cost of everything else and forget about real education or equipping the mind with an ability to think. All you need is to look at the PAP Civil Servants who are all extremely lavishly paid compared... 

I am happy for what I have right now, to be able to graduate from NUS, to have a roof over my head, to have 3 decentmeals, though I hail from a low-income family. However, one thing still bothers me, that is the fact that my girlfriend has been funding my education in the past via dirty means. So what do I mean? She has been... 

Fear of the unknown is what prevents 70% from voting opposition even though rallies are packed. Fear of the Unknown is what prevents 42% from actually uprooting and migrating. Fear leads to inertia and ‘tahaning’. The capacity for ‘tahaning’, which in some cases can be a very good thing, overwhelms the desire for change. In...