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Article: Lessons at the dining table
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- New Straits Times
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- March 7, 2000
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M.K. Gopalan
New Straits Times
03-07-2000
Lessons at the dining table
Byline: M.K. Gopalan
Edition: Life and Times; 2*
Section: Education
Memo: (STF) - Last week, we asked whether school was - or is - a mind- numbing or a mind-expanding experience. Here is what M.K. Gopalan of Petaling Jaya has to say.
THE article on "Lessons in tedium" (NST, Feb 29) really hit the nail on the head. In fact, the article should be read in tandem with Lazarus Rokk's article the same day in the sports section about the malaise in grassroots sporting achievement because of the all- consuming obsession with academic excellence.
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