DEPARTMENT OF BUILDING

UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA

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ELC 231
INTEGRATED LANGUAGE SKILL

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1. CHE WAN NUR SYAZLYANA BINTI CHE WAN SAPAWI 2019295484
2. NURSYAKIRAH BINTI SHAMSUDIN 2019203422

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DATE OF SUBMITTION:
19 JANUARY 2021
EVELUATE COMENTARY FOR THIS ARTICLE :
IS EDUCATION IS A JOURNEY OR A RACE
The article describes that education is important to youngest. The author is optimistic and
supports that education should be an exciting journey and not a stressful race. The author has
written to provide a personal view of the advantages of a higher education.

Firstly, education is important for all children so that they can achieve
excellent levels in school. Besides, it will help people become better citizens, get a better-paid
job, shows the difference between good and bad. Education shows us the importance of hard
work and, at the same time, helps us grow and develop. However, children must go through
the educational process in a balanced manner and not focus on academics only. Study life
balance means putting enough effort into your academic work while also taking time to enjoy
the social, sporting, and cultural aspects of being a student. This article also states that, based
on their academic performance, young people are frequently compared to each other. This will
make children easily depressed when they know they have done their best.

Moreover, getting an education is proof that job candidates have the required
level of understanding of discipline and serves as an indication that they will be able to do the
job required. Nowadays, employers look for attributes such as individuality, drive, passion,
curiosity in young people. Skills are also important to consider in the career development
process. These character traits are fashioned on the playground, on a football field, in a band,
even while playing video games. A healthy education should be a marvelous journey, not a
race, argues author. It is a plea for restoring a childhood that leaves space for learning how to
fail.

In my personal view opinion about the article, education is a vital tool that imparts
knowledge to enhance someone’s life. Education helps one to acquire knowledge and plays a
vital role in shaping society. Education are available in all forms, as we learn essential
information, basic information or life skills at anytime and anywhere. I believe education is for
us to learn how the world outside the books works. It’s a way in which we can better ourselves
and also the environment around us. Life is a learning experience and education is a journey.
What I want to say is a race has a starting line and finish line and it ranks participants by speed,
in the order they finish. A journey has starting and end points, but the experience is what matter
the most. So, an education is not a race but it is a journey.
 The pressure on children and their parents is growing into unhealthy proportions.
Parents and schools tend to focus on students weaknesses and compare them to others, instead
of trying to see each learner as a universe of one. Don’t be misunderstood, parents can continue
setting goals with our children, while remembering to cherish our experiences together. Parents
today are over ambitious and are not aware of their child potential and skills. They want the
best from and for their children without really care what actually matters for them in nowadays
cruel world.

Learning is a lifelong process, it is a self-paced journey of discovery, not a race. As

long as we are alive, we will continually learning and the journey will never ends. Education
should be focused more on preparing students for lifelong learning, rating than high stakes
testing. However, academic excellence is not the whole ticket. In my personal opinion, a test
cannot measure and predict who will be successful in college, career and life. For example, a
driver’s test can’t tell who will speed, drink or drive as an adult.

A healthy education should be a marvellous journey, not as a race. I believe education

should be a journey, not a race. I often hear people ask “Why are you attend a school for?” or
“What do you want to be after you grow up?” I think this attitude misses what it truly means
to educate one’s self. I want to highlight that, no matter what kind of knowledge, either what
kind of subject at school or what kind of life’s skills, no knowledge will leads us to be more
stupid. Every education and knowledge will brings us something even the small one. So, it is
not a loss to gain whatever knowledge in this world. I entered college with a new look on life,
with a new found of love for knowledge, and a lack of interest to where that knowledge would
actually take me. That’s the fun part of the journey.

Today many view education as a means to an end, some way to get a lucrative job that
usually lands up being the catalyst to our misery. I understand, of course, that one must earn
an honest living, but I don’t desire a job to define me. As I’ve got mentioned, I believe life
should be an academic journey. I wish to explore the mysteries of the world’s civilizations,
ancient, modern, their languages, the political and spiritual differences that have divided
mankind. I need to learn to argue effectively and honestly. If I have a chance, I want to learn
as much as I can about everything in this world. I want to understand and appreciate.
Link : https://www.nst.com.my/opinion/columnists/2017/10/290935/education-journey-or-race

UPSR, SPM, STPM, GCE — just a few of the acronyms haunting many young minds at this time of the
year. Young minds and their parents alike.

Remember the days when everything was a race? First to reach the bathroom in the morning, first to
down their Milo, first to call shotgun for the ride to school. First to sit on the swing at recess, first in
line for canteen lunch. First on the school bus to secure the best seat and first to reach the front door
and ring the bell. A happy childhood consisted mostly of healthy competition among friends and
siblings, a race to be the first in all things that, from an adult’s perspective, don’t really matter.

Most children gladly put their competitive mind to rest between recess and lunch. Pupils used to run
out of the classroom, not into it. Hardly anyone pushed and shoved to be the first at the blackboard
and try their luck at a complex math formula. Oh, happy childhood days. Not the most ambitious of
times, but happy days, nonetheless.

So, what happened? Instead of a rambunctious crowd, today’s pupils march in single file from their
parents’ cars onto the school grounds, born down by a school bag so big and heavy that the child who
carries it could easily find space to sit in it herself. If Malaysian schools run two sessions per day, a fact
that absolutely boggles the outsider’s mind, where are all the students that have the other half of the
day off?

Why are they not playing outside, in their front yard, in the neighbourhood park? Why are they not
hanging out at the local mall or mamak stall? Where and when are today’s children being children,
where are the nation’s teens being pubescent?

Youngsters have no time to be childlike, or rebellious, or sullen, or dreaming, anymore. Youngsters are
at tuition. They are at tuition centres that have popped up all over the country like “mushrooms
growing after the rain”, to borrow a local saying.

In today’s competitive world, the rat race starts early. Excellent grades in academic subjects are the
primordial benchmark that sets kids apart from their peers; the yardstick that determines a parent’s
measure of success at their job as a progenitor.

Academic excellence is a must in secondary school; it is even the norm in primary school. Parents and
guardians send their scions for after school tuition up to seven days a week. Gymnastics and piano
lessons are squeezed in somewhere in between.
The “Asian F” is a very real notion. It is the widespread understanding that an A- is not good enough.
The pressure on school children and their parents is growing to unhealthy proportions.

At the same time, many life skills are thrown overboard in a constant effort to be the best among the
best. Professors in tertiary education lament the fact that they lecture classes of exceptionally well-
instructed students who don’t understand what further education is all about. Students are bright and
diligent, but they don’t know how to think critically, how to build an argument, how to debate, or how
to work towards a solution as a team.

If parents and schoolchildren willingly submit to the burden of pushing for always better grades, it is
in an effort to be best prepared for the real rat race, the demands of modern career perspectives.

However, it seems that academic excellence is not the whole ticket. Employers undoubtedly look
favourably upon perfect scores. But, recruiters also look for attributes such as individuality, drive,
passion, curiosity. These aren’t skills learned in the classroom, nor in a tuition centre, no matter how
well intentioned the teachers and tutors might have been. These character traits are fashioned on the
playground, on a football field, in a band, even while playing video games.

At first glance, this argument might come across as irresponsible, dismissive of academic values,
rebellious even. It is not. It is simply an attempt at widening the scope of modern education.

A healthy education should be a marvelous journey, not a race. It is a plea for restoring a childhood
that leaves space for learning how to fail, in order to better succeed, a childhood that is given the
opportunity to grow at one’s individual pace.

It is an appeal, to give children the chance to spend time in a meadow, so that they know how to stop
and smell the roses when they grow up.