求學只是求分數
週三, 2005-08-10 20:56 — 健
每年到了會考放榜日，總是有人歡喜有人愁。
有考生因為連夜擔心放榜成績，最終患上了思覺失調；父母們日日求神拜佛：黃大仙、觀音、孫悟空，為的只是盼兒女能升上高中。
新聞報導把焦點集中於今年有多少十優尖子，他們的讀書方法是如何如何；那些尖子們總是在影頭前擺出一副冷不在乎的態度，分享著讀書心得。
曾幾何時有一句「金句」，叫「求學不是求分數」。這是我聽過最廢的廢話。如果我向校長說：「雖然我會考成績得一分，但我對宇宙蟲洞理論及深海地質學非常有心得，請你收我入讀中六吧！」你想想他會有何反應？
「求學不是求分數」是一個夢想，一個永不會發生在香港的夢想！
原因是，香港社會是很現實、很功利的，無論讀書或就業，第一個條件就是看你有多少分。他們是用分數去評定人的一切，包括學識、成就、甚至價值。所以，父母和老師一直叫我們要考到好成績、好分數，只要有好成績就可以一直升上高中、升上大學，之後就可以找一份好工作，有一個美滿的人生。彷佛這是一條科學定律。由於受到這個「定律」的影響，讀書也變得很功利。
有學生因為讀書壓力太大而自殺；而有一些則認為讀書太無聊，寧願去追求另一些東西。整個社會的學習氣氛低沉，讀書與分數掛鉤，分數又成為人的價值的指標。學習變得毫無趣味。
要脫離這種現象，我認為在香港是不可能的事──如果教育制度不變的話。
我好羨慕古時的希臘人，他們在學院裡吸收知識，鑽研學問，又無需測驗考試。整個學習氣氛良好，人們重視的不是分數，因為分數對他們來說沒有意義；他們重視的是知識本身！
如果有時光機，可以回到過去，我會第一時間把教統局長送過去！
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大多的父母都盲目把分數和前途掛鉤,彷彿只要你安守本份讀好書,取到高分,最好拔尖考進大學,便有一片光明的前途。根本不會理會子女是否真的適合於此教育制度下讀書,亦不管得子女有什麼垃圾理想,總之讀好書將來好賺錢才是一個"正確"的理想。
只是政策問題
或者，政策問題只是一部份。除了香港的功利主義，其實作為中國人本身都走不出科舉的陰影，分別只在古時科舉的出路只有一條，現在有很多條，不過都指向同一個方向--錢。考高分數-->入名學校-->上名大學-->找「好工作」-->賺很多錢，這「公式」其實大家早已看到其不實際，不過，沒有人找到代替品，也沒有人敢找代替品、使用代替品，大家只能抱著這條古董公式，繼續糾纏下去，當中的人，除了被動的學生，更有自以為被動的辦學者、僱主及所有人，還包括我。政策當然有其問題，不過再好的政策落到民間，就由民間按民間的習慣價值來執行，如果我們不擺脫對中環價值的仰望、考試好成績就是精英這信仰，其實，再好的政策也徒然；只不過，千瘡百孔的政策令問題複雜化而已。
趁著現在行行也不特別出色，何不先改變自己，諗自己喜歡的科，讀通自己喜歡的書，放下「畢業時哪一行最hit、最賺錢」的水晶球，要自己所處的群體擺脫一種集體信仰，無法用由上而下的政策做，也許，只能由自己做起。
唔好玩啦
//雖然我會考成績得一分，但我對宇宙蟲洞理論及深海地質學非常有心得//, 去那兒找這個一分英雄? If you choose to study for interests and knowledge, there is nothing stopping you. I guess there are still cultural studies, philosophy, pure science subjects offered by various universities in Hong Kong, right? 呢唔功利啦啩, 但如果唔用公開試成績, 位少學生多請問如何選學生呢又?I appreciate that it would be fun to study in the different schools of ancient Greece, but that's history. Not feasible in modern times.
Educaton in HK is totally sick!
Not the first time saying this......
Most secondary students I know nowadays think of going to school only as an obligation, and the responsibilty in school as a good student is just to get high marks instead of to really learn anything. This thought and everything in our education system has destroyed all their interests in study.
None of them likes going to school. For them, they even don't see a choice. It is a pity how many souls we have been killing by this sick system. And we are also killing our own future, on this land, our land, HK, as people and students who have stopped to like learning means the end of thinking. I can tell one student that studying is fun, is meaningful, not a torture, I can also tell two, but I can't tell a thousand of them, I can tell all...... The only 'benefit' they can relate to by studying is to 'pass the exams'. By hating exams (which is probably normal), they naturally hates going to school.
I don't expect to see everybody as enthusiatic as I am when come to knowledge absortion, just my heart aches when I see a hopeless new generation.
Why studying is for earing money???
That is a myth I can't understand! I love studying, and I don't know why I have to study something only for the 'use' in getting better paid or for a better job in the future......
回本
理想的學習心態是不應與賺錢掛勾. 可是當求學的經濟成本太大的時候, 就不得不讓人想到要"回本"了
I understand and quite agree, cc.
BUT, whenever I tell people the subject I am going to study for my MA, the first response of them were normally: 'what can you do after that? / Wht career can come out of that?', regardless the nationality and cultural background of that person. I mean, I know it is not a profession which I am going to study, but does studying and self-satifaction have to relate to 'job or career'???
Just I feel blue when I see how UNIVERSAL this idea of 'studying more to get a better job' concept is......
其實呢種心態係點形成呢?
小農社會?!
又或是如何"改變社會風氣"?!
本來唔想好似炸版咁, 但係好似大家對現今的資本主義價值大為不滿, 那麼會否想下搞個2005大鍋飯乎? (joke only)
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如果有一日, "成功者"講完上述的話後, 當眾被那些'失敗者'侮辱, 打傷
我是絕不會覺得奇怪的, 雖則我也反對暴力.
事實上雖然大家都知道社會上越來越社壓迫那些"失敗者", 但是卻沒有一套可行的方法去改變價值觀, 我估計終有一日會出現:
"斥會考失敗無出息, 父母被子女打死"
"抗議官商壓迫, 逾萬雙失青年暴動"
夠觸目驚心吧? 有些東西不是搞幾多"展翅計劃"便行的, 的確要官商及社會上其他人讓步的.
希望那些"成功者"自重吧.
The people who aked me that particlar questions included:
numerous Hong Kong Chinese, several overseas Chinese, one or two mainland Chinese, (maybe one Taiwan Chinese as well,) one Swiss Polish, one German, etc.
I mean, a lot of them didn't even ask me 'so, exactly what will you be studying about?' FIRST!!! I mean, it was like, they didn't even know what I would be studying before they challenge my decision.
If they were polite enough, they would say that this is an interesting subject, while some simply directly criticised me that I wanted to continue study simply because I didn't want to start working and waht to escape from reality!!! What should I say???
安能辨我是雄雌
pole1980君自稱姑娘, 但會員資料明明話係男身,咁請問貴性?
Frogstic, 哪你其實讀什麼???
會不會是你的科目實在太另類, 才令人有如此反應???
tourism
代Frostig答. 冇記錯?都算係揾食科, 唔算另類喎.
Tourism? Finished la!
Well, my BA is in Tourism (first hon, hehee... :-D), but I am going to study for an MA in Intercultural Studies, which in my opinion, is much more interesting.
Then, you see, that is the response of the others when they hear about my subject, AI!
To Frostig,
唓! 唔趕住揾錢讀得咪讀囉, 換轉係我有工唔返, 掉低老婆同個女就話, 但我記得你為個degree好似欠錢喎, 唔使還咩?債主咁好人?
啊!!!!!!
啊!!!!!!!......冇咩出奇. 呢度好多人都係cultural study, 你多個"inter"响前面啫.
債主一定是hk govt. 我都"掙"緊佢$$$.
(其實香港政府有時都幾好)
壓迫失敗者
我想這不是單單是資本主義的問題. 而是人類對任何範疇任何形式的失敗者都予以壓迫.