If you were the education minister, what would you change about Singapores education system?

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In no particular order... Suggestions to try 1. Allow more private schools. I would happily have kept my kids at their Montessori kindergarten, had they been allowed to offer the full primary school Montessori curriculum, 2. Allow more autonomy in curriculum at the primary school level for existing schools. 3. Create several through train schools in non brand name schools and see how many people opt to send their kids there because they don't want the pressure of the PsLE .. The kids can still take the psle but it will be less stressful. If it proves popular, create more. 4. Incorporate more enrichment onto school campuses, partnering with private sector if need be. Logistically it's so much easier. 5. More life skills training ... Budgets / personal finance, nutrition / meal planning, career Counselling, goal setting and time management etc. 6. better recognition of different learning styles, different talents and more options for those who struggle. 7. More teaching the kids to learn how to learn and figure things out for themselves as a group. Or as individuals .. Vs following instructions, doing endless ten year Series, memorising. Facts 8. More teaching about communication ... Not just how to do PowerPoint presentation - but how to speak ad hoc in public. What constitutes a good constructive debate. How to read and listen actively. 9. Smaller teacher student ratios. 10. More teaching of physical education / CCAs as exposure to different ways to be active and healthy, and socialise... With the goal that kids WANT to keep doing these sports or activities even when not required to. You may not need to use your primary two life cycles of a frog when you grow up, but you can and should still be practising the sports etc that you learned then .. Including things like yoga and tai Chi 11. Teaching stress management, including meditation ... I'm sure I'm missing things

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Now my kids are tweens and teens, And I’ve been involved in teaching at NuS , organising design thinking workshops and hackathons for kids , providing internships for school kids and giving career talks at schools .. I wouldn’t change any of the above wish list. I do know that MOE is trying to implement some of the above, so that’s a big plus in my mind. Implementing things at scale is a huge challenge