Why Your Certificate is Useless
Jul 25, 2017 · 8 min read
Open Letter to Singaporean Graduates
Dear graduates, you are about to learn the one lesson that school did not prepare you for: everything you have been told about success is a lie.
School used to be an institution that prepared you for life. Education used to be an asset that differentiated you from the rest of the serfs. Unfortunately, standards have dropped to appease the demands of the masses. Teachers have to be sensitive to your fragile feelings — don’t mark with a red cross, don’t tell a child he is wrong, don’t give out grades or a child may feel inferior.

