An old Indonesian woman friend from Surabaya, East Java, recently wrote
me a letter asking if she can borrow money from me. I was shocked to
read that letter from her, because she is a well to do woman. I phoned
her up at night, and asked her to tell me what had happened to her?
She gave me the details, in a sad tone. A man whom she met during a
business meeting ask her if she is interested in selling a full body
marble statue of Venus. He will give that marble statue to her on
consignment, which she agrees. He said it is an "antique" statue, and
the price is $10,000.00. About a week later a person came to her house
and ask her what merchandise she has for sale, because a lot of people
know about this woman, as she she is a well known lady merchant in the
community. The lady showed the Venus marble statue to this man, and he
showed great interest in the antique statue. He immediately gave her
$1,000.00 down payment with the balance in 14 days. Guess what happened?
Three days later the man who owns the statue was at the lady's house to
get his statue back because he said there is a buyer who wants to buy
the marble statue. Obviously the lady cannot give the statue back
because she already got down payment of $1,000.00 from her buyer. She
did not have enough money, so she borrowed money from a friend who is an
Army General, and paid the owner of the "antique" statue $8,000.00 net.
You know what Zanzibar, the man who gave $1,000.00 down payment never
returned to pay the balance and get his statue. The lady then realized
that she was deceived!
The following week she took the marble statue to an antique specialist,
and he estimated that the statue is not worth more than $50.00, if there
is a buyer.
That's how people make money. They always want the easy way to make
money, lying on the beach using people's money. Eating sushi at a
Japanese restaurant at night with people's money. This is a true story.
On 3/8/2013 10:19 PM, Zanzibar wrote:
> On 9 Mar, 01:12, Eduardo <
Edua...@trainsurfers.com> wrote:
>> If schools and universities are given report cards, most teachers will
>> get a "D" or "F". Why? Because there are many incompetent teachers who
>> are hired by the schools and universities. The teachers have never
>> received feedback (grades) from their students. Why? Because in most
>> third world countries giving grades to your teacher is a taboo, based on
>> my past experience having lived in third world country.
>>
>> Teachers and professors are NOT teaching what is relevant to the
>> technological needs of the time, but they are teaching only what
>> they know, and what they know is already obsolete, old stuff and nothing
>> new.
>>
>> And that was one of the major reason why there is an influx of talented
>> workers into Singapore and Indonesia, for example. The schools are not
>> teaching their students what is relevant to the needs and demands of the
>> time.
>>
>> In America, many students who attend publicly funded schools are asked
>> to complete a report card about their professors' teaching performance
>> before the semester is over. And the report card about teachers students
>> submit to the Administration office directly. This is fairly recent
>> practice that is done in many publicly funded educational institutions.
>>
>> Good schools and universities in America spend a lot of time teaching
>> their students how to play the role of leaders, and not merely
>> followers. Equipped with the knowledge that students have learned in
>> class, each student is assigned to role play their choice of topic that
>> they have learned in class in real business situation. With other words,
>> how a student would apply their knowledge in real life. And for teachers
>> to be able to evaluate their students realistically, the teachers must
>> have that kind of experience themselves. From where?
>>
>> Good schools spend plenty of time teaching their students how to be
>> leaders, and not merely followers in whatever field they choose. And
>> students do this by role playing as leaders.
>
> The school teaching system in Indonesia cannot compare to the teaching
> system in America. America is a
> advanced country with very good schools and have many very cutting
> edge universities, the best in the world.
>
> Indonesia is no comparison to an America's education. Indonesia is way
> behind in the universal standard of
> measurment on school teacher selections and teacher training and
> advancements. They need to reform on that.
>
> Their teaching standard and national school syllabuses are not up to
> world mark. They not yet match up to the
> universal standard school teacher system and school syllabuses.
>
> Most third world countries had the same problems. Indoneisa badly
> needs education reforms if they are interested
> to go up their notch in education.
>
> When a country has a good educational and teaching system, there will
> be natural progression for the society. The
> majority of the people in the population of Indonesia will progress
> along with the herds in front of them.
>
> A good but relevant basic education in Indonesia will improve the vast
> majority of the mid to lower end of the curve
> of the people of Indonesia into a progressive society. They will be
> able to discern between right and wrong, able to
> accept law and order, able to develop reasoning and logical skills.
> able to understand, able communicate with
> others, and able to work for their honest day pay.
>
> A good relevant education is key to them as every Indonesian can
> evolve in turning their nation into a progressive
> society. We should know that a lousy teacher produces a lousy student,
> A backward syllabus produces a backward
> mindset. An uneducated child will become an uneducated adult. A
> backward and uneducated society is ruined society.
>