When you train people to be good in learning the rules, it is harder to have a rebellious spirit ... people who are not afraid to break the norm, to fail a little
SINGAPORE — They have hopped around countries to build up businesses, before settling on Singapore to sink their roots more than 10 years ago. To them, there is no better place than Singapore for entrepreneurs, so much so that one of them, fish farm Barramundi Asia’s managing director Joep Kleine Staarman declares
culture of defining success a single way
people grow up trying to thrive in school, which, here, focuses on structured learning, and systematic and logical thinking; less on creativity and risk-taking
the education system produces workers good in thinking about structures and algorithms, besides being highly efficient.“But it is still a workforce that is not highly innovative
the results-driven, exam-centric approach in Singapore’s education system does not require students to think creatively
most of entrepreneurial nature is about people
There is this whole obsession for people to be similar to other people
/what needs changing first is for society to be less critical of those who fare less well academically. “If people are not good in school, don’t write them off. Work on their specialties. Oftentimes, they may be the ones with the potential to be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow/
