JANUARY 11 — If you were to ask me what essential skill needed to be taught, I would say: how to Google. Something that seems so simple on the surface — “Google it” — is...
JANUARY 11 — If you were to ask me what essential skill needed to be taught, I would say: how to Google.Search engines are not magic internet things that will deliver exactly what you need.What is insidious about search engines, Google especially, is how they are not without bias as they were made by humans who are inherently unable to be unbiased.Antivaxxers will search for what appeals to their bias while vaccine proponents will search for the same.
Being able to spend hours in computer labs doing my own research was invaluable as was the freedom to seek out knowledge from on-campus resources. Yet politicians and the likes of the Malaysian Employers Federation think our universities should not be places where students can dedicate themselves to exploring academia.
Certain things are better taught in secondary school. It would make more sense to teach things such as interviewing skills, resume writing and cover letters then. Fear of public speaking is something many adults struggle with still — so why not teach youngsters to cope or be better at expressing themselves while they’re still young?
“Ah well, it’s fate/God’s will,” they say and each year nothing changes. Not the water, not the floods, not the apathy.This sense of powerlessness is fatal to a developing country. Do we want to backslide the way Iran and Afghanistan have done, visibly, disempowering women and youth, insisting only on overly harsh interpretations of religious teachings?
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