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Teach Less Learn More – Lessons Learnt Part 2
By Eight percent per annum  •  May 23, 2016
This is a follow-up post on Teach Less Learn More - Part 1. Teach Less Learn More (TLLM) was touted as the frontier philosophy in Singapore's education system to make learning holistic, bringing learning from inside the classroom to hands-on experiences, learning by discovery and less rote memorizing. Unfortunately, the implementation left much to be desired. Today, after years of TLLM, we are still stuck in an epic education war, akin to the popular Animal Kaiser game, where no animals nor their masters actually win. Perhaps we have to go back to the genesis of Singapore's education system to understand  a bit more. Singapore's national education system started in the late 60s and early 70s. Back then, the late Dr Goh Keng Swee, Singapore's chief economic architect needed to solve urgent problems: illiteracy, lack of core math and science skills and increase in productivity and efficiency of our workers working ... ...
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