Singapore Rote Learning Creates World's Most Efficient Human Filing Cabinets

The Ministry of Education (MOE) has proudly announced that Singapore's global ranking in 'Automated Compliance and Unquestioning Obedience' has soared to number one, finally dethroning the previous record holder, a highly sophisticated German dishwasher. Education Minister Chan Chun Sing reportedly celebrated by ordering 50,000 more red pens for annotation drills. "Steady lah, we train them so well, they can function perfectly on just 3 hours of sleep and zero critical thought," beamed a former top scholar, now an executive at a statutory board. Critics suggest the system has perfected the human equivalent of a complex algorithm. A parent, wiping sweat from his brow after coaching his seven-year-old on advanced queuing etiquette, sighed, "Eh, this one so smart already, later must go MIT... to study how to follow traffic lights perfectly. Power."