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The education system in Singapore today is effective in preparing youths for the future. To what extent do you agree?

With the implementation of the Community Involvement Programme (CIP) by the Ministry of education as well as the offering of overseas and outreach programmes by many institutions, schools today are taking the learning experience out of the classrooms, enabling students to develop their character and experience many life-changing lessons that certainly cannot be learnt in the boundaries of the classroom. With these programmes, students would be thought values of life such as compassion, kindness, learning to appreciate the finer things in life etc. The learning of these values certainly challenge the social norms that youths today are selfish and will definitely aid them in the future once they enter the extremely stressful working world. Furthermore, these programmes would also help youth in developing confidence as well as charisma which would certainly be an added bonus in the future. Once such institution that has been conducting such programmes that focuses on student development would be that of the 'Outward Bound' schools. Having been started in Europe and slwoly branching out into parts of Asia, Outward Bound has played host to many schools in Singapore today. Though some might argue that these sort of overseas and outreach programmes are mostly offered to more 'branded schools', this is through no fault of the education system in Singapore as students from supposedly less 'branded' schools tend to be disinterested in such programmes and aren't offered these programmes as the requirement would be that they should be more focussed on their studies. Furthermore, there is no doubt that these programmes are effective in student development and therefore just shows the effectiveness of the education system in Singapore.

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