Back then, I wanted to move to an international school very early on in high school, tired of rote memorization and looking for * something else * that I believed was more holistic, with better teachers, better programs. The tuition fees were exorbitant! And hence, I stood outside, from my public school looking faraway, for a freer land.
The international school community was then for me an ivory tower, an idealistic dream. My dream was protected from all reality that was happening behind those walls.
Nowadays, with facebook and the Internet, the walls are torn down. Yet, if I were a student now, how would I feel? Envious with the prom parties, the international travel photos, the non-Vietnamese facebook friends, the good-looking dresses? Disappointed with a world not always filled with motivation, good friends, good teachers? Or simply appreciating what I would be having even more?
With facebook and such transparent personal information load, would the world feel more empowered, or more disenchanted with more reality? When more truth is relatively easier to seek now than before, people could be more self-conscious. But their quality of life, improved or not, seems to me not being essentially driven by this development.
