Learning by itself is something I love to do for human beings are born with an insatiable curiosity,

questioning everything we see, demanding explanations and understanding. I love learning about how
we are created, how everything around us is created, of the languages we speak, how they’re formed,
theories and formulas to calculate important data, the countries we live in, the past and the future.
What I do not love is the mechanical way we are taught, the memorize and regurgitate routine we apply
to pass our examinations and our fixations on good grades and A+ as well more as a more relevant
stereotype in Malaysia of nurturing a child who should be good in education, sports, with a bright
personality and extra talents who will become a doctor, lawyer or an engineer. It completely leaches the
joy out of learning and creates a pressure and false presumption that our grades are the most important
and our marks symbolize our intelligence and worth.

I picture very clearly in the future, a classroom with students sitting at their desks without textbooks. In
their schoolbag, there are no exercise books, no workbooks, just a simple notepad, a pencil case, a
tablet or a laptop and a phone. Standing at the front of the classroom, a teacher and a robot. Side by
side. The tests wouldn’t require memorized information but new, different and logical ideas. Education
is not just about making sure everyone is knowledgeable enough to make it in the world but it is to
make them knowledgeable and creative enough to change the world.

Almost as if it happened yesterday, I remember myself in kindergarten with my nose in a book,

swallowed in a whole new world, in primary school struggling to figure out what was going on, what are
exams and why I suddenly had to study so hard to get good grades and hating it and today I’m in
secondary school with a deep understanding of the education system, a cynical outlook and a
begrudging acceptance of its importance