I was just reading my boorrring financial accounting textbook and suddenly, this wonderful idea just struck me. This idea is perfect for producing brighter students, boosting national income, better allocating resources, saving the environment and preventing Singapore from getting hotter by global warming! You know how? It’s to cut all the crap in school textbooks and go straight to the point!!!

Seriously.. these textbooks keep going in a roundabout way that confuses everybody. People are busy attempting to memorise the front parts of the book so much so that we feel so drained when it gets to the important parts. Or somehow the important parts are weaved into all the non-important parts. It’s like going to some flea market and finding that really funky shirt among the other lousy ones.

So anyway, if they skip all that nonsense, we will all understand the syllabus much better! And if we understand it more, we will be more interested in what we are learning and may even read up more on it! So that would produce much smarter and well-read students. And a potentially much-more-intelligent workforce! This is especially in this knowledge-based economy where it will definitely boost the economy with such workers.

At the same time, if they cut the crap on textbooks, then textbooks will cost less to buy and to make (due to less money paid as less paper and working time is used). So people who buy textbooks can use their money to buy other things thus, using their money in better ways. And people who make textbooks can use the money for other things such as improving their machinery so that they can print more colourful books but sell it cheaper or something. See.. since the money is better used on other things, isn’t that allocating resources much more efficiently?

And of course, if we print less pages on every single textbook (where every textbook is.. I dunno.. Printed in the millions?), then won’t that save a huge chunk of the Amazon forest? My Leadership and Teambuilding (LTB) prof.. (Forgot who. Think it’s him) said that in every 500 pages of a textbook, only 100 pages are important. Well, it was said figuratively. But assuming it was literally true, and only that 100 pages were printed, we could very well delay global warming for maybe 50 years. [Anyhow say. No statistics behind this.] Then Singapore also won’t be as hot!

Tadah!! So cool right? Ok sorry I’m just damn bored reading my FA book till I totally drifted away. But I still think they should get rid of all the nonsense which doesn’t seem to help in teaching people how to do up a balance sheet and all that.

Back to studying. BLEAH. Can’t wait for Saturday.

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