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Dear Diary...
Introversion
mercredi 19 août 2009

I went to sleep at 6 in the evening!
and I woke up at 10 for dinner. (:

I slept at 3.30 last night. With many thanks to someone's big idea. Whatever, had to pull me down.

Felt really stressed up and tired this morning. Mum just being really nice to be this morning. Thanks mum (: She let me sleep in. Thank god I was still in time for school!

I think I'll follow mum's advice, do what I want, no point stressing up because I can't do what the teachers want me to. They don't know what I want anyway. Furthermore, the education system is biased towards the extroverted, so it's not fair anyway.

It's not like I don't know what I want and still need to be stuck with 9 subjects. But, whatever.
argh.

It's not like me to blog like that. But. whatever, again.

Talking to Silvana about introversion and extroversion now. Because I told her that apart from opening my own preschool I am going to develop a new syllabus/system for introverts. Then she was curious why so I had to explain everything about introversion and extroversion, the into-extro continuum, traits and the energy balance.

Why I think introverts need a new syllabus or different system.

Introverts are people who prefer to dwell on certain topics and subjects. So I would prefer to spot a child's talents and strengths and strengthening them, and not stress them out by forcing them to improve on their weaknesses, because there is no rationale behind that.

The O level standard will not suit introverts, most of the time. Introverts tend to ask why why why, how how how how. Take for example:

Why can a cell survive?
A: It is able to take in nutrients such as oxygen, glucose etc, to maintain respiration to keep it alive.

Why does it need oxygen and glucose? Why does it need to maintain respiration? How do those nutrients get to the cell? How do they get into the cell? Why must it be these nutrients?

Often, an answer the teacher will give is: This is not in syllabus, don't worry.

But how can they not worry? Introverts prefer depth to breadth. So they need to know everything, if they were to learn something, otherwise they are likely unable to fully understand the topic and do slightly worse. The more a teacher says not in syllabus, the more the student feels discouraged and feel more unconfident with the subject/topic. (Same reason why I don't do well for A math. Why is the sine graph curved? Why is the cosine graph curved? Why does it have such a shape? How did they derive sine and cosine? No teacher has managed to give me an answer. They all tell me to: memorise) Memorise is the last word introverts need to hear. They prefer to understand. They don't need to memorise then, the ideas flow back to their minds easily. Introverts are more imaginative and are visualisers, thus if they understand, they are mroe likely to be able to visualise, and they will do better.

So, it's obvious introverts need to have a different education system if they were to excel in this world which is biased towards the extroverts. We need this playing ground evened.

Au Revoir

yongliang

he closed his diary at {23:45}