"...Now I know my ABC, come along and sing with me."A song we learnt by heart. A song we grew up with. A song to teach all children the English language, and therefore the necessity of embracing the alphabets. A song, by now for most of us, as easy as ABC.
Really? As we progress through the Singapore school education, ABCs no longer seem as simple. A for apple. B for boy. C for car. Or could it be: A for average, B for bingo, and C for champion? Must it be A for excellence, B for satisfactory, and C for passable. And what's with the 'pluses' and 'minuses'. A and A+ doesn't make a difference, to your scores, other than the additional strokes. Welcome to the world of CAPS! Yes, perhaps an old familiar idiom has been made obsolette, superseded by lamentating cries of we need to "pull up our CAPS". It is as easy as climbing C-B-A in ascending order. No? Oh i forgot it's cummulative.
Even the ABCs are made so complex in the adult world. I much prefer the light-hearted jingle that accompanies my childhood years. Why can't we delight in singing the song, be it in recognisable or unrecognisable melody and lyrics. Whatever the outcome may be, the joy of learning and unlearning is immeasurable.
Yes, why not.
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