The Hart-Fuller Debate and legal positivism

I was revising Introduction to Legal Theory (ILT) and I came to the topic of legal positivism and the Hart-Fuller debate. It is an extremely interesting topic and I thought I could just write down some of my views on it. Just in case this bores people out, the theories outlined in the post may …

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Is meritocracy really..that bad?

So today I was just browsing the internet and my topic of interest was "What happens to people who fail PSLE?". It didn't take me long to find out that there were schools such as Northlight School and Assumption Pathway School , and other institutions such as ITE that take in students who are not …

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Language

I think it is really cool to discover new languages. Some time ago, I promised myself that I will master Japanese and Korean by the time I am an adult. I even intend to take Japanese as one of my minors when I go to university,  Singapore students, I realised, are very fortunate people. They …

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Singlish and acronyms

WHY THE HISTORY ASSIGNMENT SO HARD LAH SERIOUSLY?? Typical Singlish yay. Come to think of it, Singaporeans are so lazy with words LOL. So many acronyms. Every expressway, the universities, most schools, every government board, every department in the SPF etc etc. LOL just imagine getting onto a taxi and saying "Excuse me Uncle. I …

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Give Us A Break

So it's the June holidays. End of the third week of it. And everyone knows holidays of Singaporean students from primary 5 onwards to JC aren't holidays at all. Holidays are supposedly time for students to take a break from word yet the week before the holidays start, each subject teacher had already begun planning …

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Exams?

Hmm just finished doing notes on History. So I was studying Confucianism. Education. I thought I would just type down this random thought of mine. Recently, there has been debate about the education system in Singapore. PSLE, secondary school ranking system, bilingual policy, pre-school education etc. All closely related to me. At the centre of …

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