I feel that she is right with her points being extremely effective and clear. They are impactful and useful as they are not only truthful but also talk straight to the problem. She cover three main problems in this letter which are killing the children curiosity, affecting the inquisitive nature of a child and the way the school teaches moral values. In this letter, she has questioned the meaning of the word education to the government with her trying to bring out examples and what she had experienced to give some feedback to the government so as to make the government realise the flaws in the education system. This has proved effective with the education minister of Singapore request to invite her in a discussion which he plans to start where they will discuss possible future education policies. He hopes that many youths will come and join in the discussion so as to improve the system and bring the nation forward.
In my opinion, I feel that there can never be an "ideal" education system. Every single person is born differently and everyone has special talents and weaknesses and there can never be a system so good that it caters to everyone and develop everyone talents and skills to the maximum. Furthermore with different opinion of everyone on the education system and how it should be run is different, there can never be one that fits all. Hence, I feel that the best form of education would be to separate students into different streams so as to cater to people with different learning paces so that teachers will be able to focus on the capabilities of the students better and bring the best out of them. Hence despite an ideal education system is impossible, a good one can still exist.
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