The cause of stress in our education system is not from within the education system itself. It is not the amount of homework, tests, exams or tuition. It is also not the level of difficulty of our exam papers.
The real cause of stress in our education system, if you have not already realized, is found in the following paragraph (taken from yahoo s’pore): “Overall, the top 10% of Singapore households had incomes of $10,543 per member. The bottom 10% had earnings of $422 per member. Note that the top 10% earns almost 25 times the bottom 10%. The disparity seems mostly related work QUALIFICATIONS.”
That’s why parents here push their children very hard to excel in exams, and not in the children’s area of interest. In many developed countries, it’s ok not to go to college. Here, doing that means choosing to suffer financially in life.
Ilyasa