起点不好不表示终点不能好－专访教育部课程规划与发展司司长林艳卿

Just Because A Child Did Not Start Well, It Does Not Mean That He Cannot End Well—An Exclusive Interview with Mrs Chua Yen Ching, Director for Curriculum Planning and Development, MOE

起点不好，不表示终点不能好。"教育部课程规划与发展司司长林艳卿以书面接受《新学》新加坡教育双语双月刊专访时传达这个信念。
她说："每个孩子都有不同的长处和优点。即便他们的学术成绩不够好，不表示他们在体育、艺术或其他方面没有才华。我们要做的是让每个学生有机会接触各种课程和活动，教师在旁辅助他们从中发现自己的优点和兴趣。我们重视每个学生的价值，教师协助他们重新界定成功的意义，也指导他们以不同的态度看失败。一般人面对失败，有两种反应：一是放弃；二是记取教训，再勇往直前。选择后者的人，迎接的是突破而不是崩溃。"

Just because a child did not start well, it does not mean that he cannot end well," Mrs Chua Yen Ching, Director for Curriculum Planning and Development at the Ministry of Education (MOE), expressed and emphasised this belief in an email interview with the bilingual, bi-monthly educational magazine EduNation.
"Students have uneven strengths. Though they may not have done well academically they do have talents in other areas like sports and the arts. Every student has opportunities to experience a range of programmes and the teachers will help students to identify their interests and strengths. Every student is valued for who he is and the teachers will help him to redefine success and see failure differently. When he experiences failure, he can either give up or learn from his mistakes and persevere. If he goes for the latter, he will experience a breakthrough and not a breakdown, "she said.