He acknowledged that Singapore has been “remarkably successful” at one level but added that “there are glaring gaps at another level.”
SINGAPORE: In a recent interview, Workers’ Party MP Jamus Lim had his educator’s hat firmly on as he touched on why Singapore has never had a Nobel laureate and how being a straight-A student may not bring on the perks it promises.Podcast, posted on YouTube earlier this week, acknowledged that Singapore has been “remarkably successful” at one level but added that “there are glaring gaps at another level.
“Singapore has never generated a Nobel laureate and, okay, you might say that’s because we’re a small country. There are other small countries that have generated laureates” across a range of disciplines, including the sciences, economics, and literature.Almost 90% of Singapore companies still value human touch despite rapid tech transformation: HSBC study
What is important, he added, is to not merely bring average scores up. “That’s what we have managed to do, bring the average level up, such that our averages are among the best in the world, if not the best.But Singapore needs to ask itself if “we are generating… workers of tomorrow. That part is much more unclear to me.”
With AI already taking over many types of work, he added, “What we are only doing is purely climbing up the skills acquisition ladder. I fear that that ladder will run out or the bottom will be pulled away from under because what we also need is to recognize that innovation, creativity, and thinking outside established parameters are not only just as important, but are going to become increasingly more important.
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