Education Of Singapore Dominated By Pragmatism

Singapore is a country with small size of land area and population. The ethnic structure is complex,and she different from the neighbor in ethnic and religion obviously. Singapore faces enormous pressure in survival and development.National policies focus on practical interests and functions, and the education has pragmatism obviously. Government see education as an important measure for political, economic goals, so develop education positively and increase education intervention. Government implement bilingualism education, streaming education, and strengthen the citizen moral education. It make education in political and economic development played a great role in promoting Singapore to achieve the political stability, ethnic relations harmonious relatively and economic development. She became the fastest in the "Four Asian Tigers", and ranks among the developed countries. However, Singapore also paid a high price for the pragmatism education. The pragmatic education is building on the state level and the needs of individuals neglected relatively. It cause a heavy burden on students and lack of creativity. The traditional culture decline with the mother-tongue level is lower. Interpersonal is indifference with the intense competition. The utilitarian is popular with moral politicized and superficial seriously. With the pursuit of economic success and material interests fanatically, the political and cultural construction be neglected relatively.