Debate on President’s speech: Victor Lye on affordable food and a new model of education
Hawker centres and HDB-rented coffee shops should be Singapore’s social kitchens and community spaces, where there is always access to affordable food, said MP Victor Lye in parliament on Wednesday (Sep 24). Singapore can look at food as an asset, he said, and reimagine hawker culture as a tourism product that would yield revenue from cooking classes, food trails and heritage tours in the heartlands. He called for support for traditional foods which would otherwise disappear. Mr Lye also spoke about education, saying the challenge is not to teach more, but teach differently, supported by adaptive AI tools and with teachers as “coach models”. Otherwise, he warned of the risk of children from affluent families moving ahead with AI-driven personalised learning outside the school system, while others remain in rote-based pathways - widening social divides.
Hawker centres and HDB-rented coffee shops should be Singapore’s social kitchens and community spaces, where there is always access to affordable food, said MP Victor Lye in parliament on Wednesday (Sep 24). Singapore can look at food as an asset, he said, and reimagine hawker culture as a tourism product that would yield revenue from cooking classes, food trails and heritage tours in the heartlands. He called for support for traditional foods which would otherwise disappear. Mr Lye also spoke about education, saying the challenge is not to teach more, but teach differently, supported by adaptive AI tools and with teachers as “coach models”. Otherwise, he warned of the risk of children from affluent families moving ahead with AI-driven personalised learning outside the school system, while others remain in rote-based pathways - widening social divides.
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