It has the world’s best schools, but Singapore wants better
The government wants pupils not just to ace exams, but also to be creative
THE library at Woodgrove Primary School has been turned into a “MakerSpace”. After regular lessons end at around 2pm, pupils sign up for sessions like 3D design, stop-motion film-making and coding for robots. Instructors leave the children to it once they have explained how things work. The overall message is that it’s OK to fail, says a teacher. On a Thursday afternoon just after the summer break, one young boy stops to explain that these sessions make a nice change: if he wasn’t here, he would only be studying at home.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Can do even better”
Asia September 1st 2018
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