The things that stick with me from my school days aren’t particularly useful. They’re mostly things like long division, Xiao Ming waking up and realising it was all a dream, and how one of my teachers once demonstrated that it was possible to make honeycomb toffee in the chemistry lab by combining brown sugar and baking soda in a beaker over a Bunsen burner.
More applicable things they should have taught us in school, I think, include stuff like how to grow your money, how to win friends and influence people, and how to fold a fitted sheet.
Then again, looking back, there were life lessons to be gleaned, if you had eyes to see them. Like how you can tell a lot about a person by whether they’re a front-row guy or back-row guy; that you can change your wardrobe up just by becoming a prefect; and how “when we cheer with determination, we create a sensation. Go, team!”.
One of the interesting attractions that’s part of the ongoing National Design Week’s slew of activities is the School of Tomorrow over at Selegie Arts Centre. The three-storey building has been taken over by a “school” whose curriculum is all about sustainability.