What’s happening to our country? It seems that we always ended barking at the wrong trees? Fighting the wrong fight! Who cares it is a white or a black cat as long it catches a rat!
No different this time, why on earth are we arguing on what language to use in our schools to teach science & mathematic? Shouldn’t we more concern on what we teach our children instead of what language to use to teach our children? Our syllabus is so outdated that it makes no different whether it was thought in Bahasa or in English or in Spanish for that matter!
I feel that it is good to have representatives from political parties, educationists, NGOs, PTAs, etc to meet like they are doing now, but they need to meet as Malaysian, act for Malaysian, think for Malaysian and decide for Malaysian. We don’t care which race or group you are representing, we want it to be of the best interest of Malaysian. Please sit down and analyse whether it is language the most critical problem we are having now or the quality of our syllabus? I believe the parents or the people wouldn’t mind what language was taught in schools if our education system can produce top engineers, top surgeons, top scientists, Nobel prize winners or at least quality graduates on regular basis.
I believe the things that we teach our children in schools need to be revised and updated so that our graduates can me more marketable. Once we have a top quality syllabus, the Education Ministry can repackage & translate the teaching materials into 2 or 3 different languages. Then let the parents to choose which medium of schools they want to send their children, knowing that the children will get the same high quality education.
Now students can take up 15 to 17 subjects, why don’t the Ministry trim & revise the number of subjects in our education system and perhaps introduce Mandarin, Tamil, Arabic, French,etc……..classes in our schools instead for children to choose from.
Maybe we can also include a subject on Unity in our schools. Since in many areas most of the primary schools (SRJK, SRJK(C) & SRJK (T)) are close to each others, perhaps we can get the children from different schools to mingle for a few hours every week doing things or play together in order to build up trust & understanding among them. It is sure better than to wait until they turn 18 before we put them in a camp and expect them to like each other in 3 months time.
To sum it up, I feel that we need to have a quality syllabus before we argue about the language.
Who say it is going to be easy but a step towards the right direction will bring us to a brighter future!
“Meet as Malaysian, act for Malaysian, think for Malaysian and decide for Malaysian!” and we, Malaysian will support you!
2 comments:
Big Dick, totally agree with your views on this matter. But you seem to have miss out on one important aspect. The quality of the teachers.
Having the right syllabus is one thing but if we continue to have teachers who teach without passion, then we are going down the same drain. Teachers must have passions in their work, must feel its their duty to impart knowledge to the younger generations. They must be proud to be assigned such grand task.
Having teachers who only yearn for better salary, allowance, stable government jobs, afterhours tuition side income, will doom our education system to failure.
Its time for the powers-to-be to really instill better sense and responsibilities in this group of selfish people in a supposely selfless profession.
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