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We Need To Get Our Education Right
Dear all,
Thank you for your comments on my previous blog: Many ills of Malaysia politics
I just posted the below comment on Tun Mahathir blog.
Dear PM Tun Dr. Mahathir,
Salam Aidil Adha, Selamat Hari Raya Haji Pada Tun Dr. Mahathir Dan Sekelurga
PM Mahathir to overhaul Malaysia's schools, saying too much focus on Islamic studies now
Published: Dec 22, 2018, 5:27 pm SGT Updated Dec 23, 2018, 2:49 pm
KUALA LUMPUR - Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Malaysia's national school curriculum will be overhauled, as Islamic subjects are given heavy emphasis now rather than getting students to master subjects, such as the English language, that could land them good jobs later.
"They are all learning about the religion of Islam and not learning anything else," he said late on Friday (Dec 21) at a dinner event.
"As a result, those who pass in schools are not very conversant with subjects that are useful for them to get jobs, but they are very good ulama (Muslim clerics)."
"And when you have too many ulama, they always differ from each other, and they mislead their followers and they quarrel with each other," he added, according to MalayMail.com news site.
Face the truth, we are not out of the woods, warns Daim
Monday, 05 Aug 2019 3:11 PM MYT By Zakiah Koya
PETALING JAYA: Although the New Economic Policy (NEP) has polarised sections of the society, one would disregard it at Malaysia's peril, warns former Council of Eminent Persons (CEP) chairman Tun Daim Zainuddin.
He said there were groups who had managed to sabotage the NEP with race, religious and language rhetoric.
Daim further said that the country must not succumb to those with vested interest, but must fix the education system and move ahead to ensure the NEP was implemented on a needs-base rather than race-base.
"While we look forward, it is also imperative that we look back. Are we getting our basics right? Are our fundamentals solid?
"Let us not be under any illusions. We are still far from being out of the woods. We are far from being ready for the changes happening around us. We are far from being a united people. We are far from being able to compete at the global level. We are far from being able to embrace differences and changes. And underpinning all of this unpreparedness is education.”
"If we do not first get education right, all these other challenges will suddenly become insurmountable. To borrow a quote from Alvin Toffler: “The illiterate of the 21st Century are not those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” I would like to add to this by saying, “not only those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn, but also those who refuse to learn." said Daim.
Tun Daim Zainuddin is calling up to Tun to talk the talk and walk the walk. Time is not on Tun side and it is now or never for Tun not to placate but to do what needs to be done and lead for change. Please lead the change and make it much easy for your successor to carry on the reform needed to save Malaysia before it become insurmountable.
Thank you
Yours truly,
SS LEE
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whoever has the final say is the one to be blame .DAP can not do anything about it.
2019-08-16 20:06
They are the most hardworking ppl.......burning midnight oil every night.....
.......sacrifice every weekend.......refuse to revert and go 40 odd days state sponsored holiday to middle east
2019-08-16 20:11
Putting khat before the horse
BELUM PANDAI BERJALAN SUDAH HENDAK LARI
MACAM MANA MURID SEKOLAH DAPAT HAYATI
TIDAK FAHAM KEKAL MESTI KEKAL MENTERI INI
SUDAH BERKALI TERHANTUK TIDAK SEDAR LAGI
KESILAPAN DEMI KESILAPAN BERKALI-KALI
DARI PERMULAAN SEHINGGA KE HARI KINI
CONTOH TERBAIK UNTUK KITA SEDARKAN DIRI
APA GUNANYA PENDIDIKAN PALSU TIPU SENDIRI
MEREKA YANG BERBAKAT DAN BERILMU BANYAK LAGI
TUKAR-TUKAR SAHAJA SEHINGGA SEMUA JADI
TIADA GUNANYA TERUS BERDEGIL HINGGA MATI
KEJAYAAN SPECIES SAPIENS JUGA KERANA EVOLUSI
2019-08-17 06:06
Instead of asking such an unintelligible question, mat hassa should have asked ' Is there any point of climbing further up....and harder....or quicker......
.....if the ladder is leaned on the wrong side of the wall .......the pseudoeducation side
2019-08-17 09:19
KHAT...no CUT the crap
Bad into to put the KHAT...no CART before the horse
This is 21st century....learn up to date java script 1st..all out
If fot additional budget....man power....time....ample childhood time....then
AND.....Anak2 msia.....batch in ..batch out.....
...tortured to depression to rote learning SEJARAH textbook....
YET FAIL TO BE enlightened ONES......
Why is its learnibg objective?
The number one objective should be.....
...enhance patrioticism.....creating nationalist 1st mentality.....Malaysian first schoolers
= success....objective made
KPI for sejarah teacher....for 6 decades
OKAY...OKAY...FAOL...SO NOW ADD ON CIVICS??????
2019-08-17 09:53
The Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) says the country is ill-prepared for Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0), warning that Malaysia will no longer be competitive if it is not able to embrace it quickly.
2019-08-17 11:57
Fast pace these days.....as MEF made the statement today.....
......the 'will'....has become like....'yesteryear'
History.....
Had unfortunately...occured before anyone could blink eyes
2019-08-17 12:00
Why school never encouraged students to be banker when grow up? Not banks make billion RM profit so bankers get well paid?
2019-08-17 12:59
Civics .....take baby step....set priority
1st Ensure all schoolers and educators put the country first....
.....brain drain is too costly and detrimental to the country economy development.....causing lost decades of progress....shrinking ringgit value
'Malaysian first 'mentality from Bornean teritories to Peninsular side'
Taking one step at a time..... part of civic teaching.....not to be greedy
......HM to submit achievement data
part of Civics KPI
2019-08-19 09:06
Harapkan pagar pagar makan padi
Kesedaran sivik mula dengan menteri
Jika pemimpin tipu, pengikut akan curi
Pendidikan terpesong ruginya sendiri
2019-08-19 12:31
Pendidikan biarlah berkualiti
Tipu orang itu tipu sendiri
Insaflah kesilapan, patuhi janji
Anak-anak esok semua berdikari
2019-08-19 12:37
Products of pseudo education can be recognised....as they demonsrate sinful traits....
.....from lying.....to dishonesty
cowardice to admit wrong doings...to conning community money
regularly doing tohmahan fitnah after fitnah ....never insaf
come out as batu api after every issue has beem brilliantly settled
argue by emotion and delusion....rather than factual
HOW MANY MORE OF THESE.....WANT TO PRODUCE??
2019-08-20 06:39
Whenever any plan or policy is designed or implemented, the first question that must be on the lips of the prime minister and his Cabinet and that of the chief secretary and the secretaries-general of ministries should be: will this help forge unity or will it divide our citizens? (A Kathirasen)
2019-08-20 07:06
Gesaan Dewan Pembangunan Perniagaan Usahawan Malaysia (MCED) agar tulisan Jawi pada pembungkusan produk bukan Islam dihapuskan.
TO LEARN BUT CANNOT USE......make sense?
And shouldn't be part of the syllabus to EDUCATE the kids WHEN IT CAN AND CANNOT BE USED
?????
2019-08-23 07:34
Pseudoeducation is an art of emptying country coffer and degrading life.
Rather than instilling values, developing stimulated intellect, coaching tolerance for disagreeable belief systems, digging out opportunities to question what exists, and contributing to the growth of the human society.......
.....it does the opposite and produces pseudoprofessionals and pseudoprofessors....more of deluded katak di bawah tempurung....with genuinely critically lack of global perspective generally and originally intellectual perspective specifically
2019-08-23 08:08
A pseudo- national school system is not a truly national school system....... with the existence of the many single-race only junior schools /colleges/ univerisities....e.g. uitm
2019-08-23 08:24
Where is education ministry road-map to international standard education after more than a year of a new government?
.....accountabilty.....transparency......lead by example....
2019-08-23 08:29
System is broken.......................unity is just a dream.....
............as long as kids are viewed with a filtering lens
as white kid....black kid.....buddh kid.....isl kid....hind kid
2019-08-23 10:16
Pseudo education policies, which were designed to stultify while did not encourage children to think, or to ask questions...
2019-08-23 21:35
Vernacular schools produce nationalists first citizen who put their country interest first....and diversity to be treasured as wealth.....
.......while products of National schools are reli first rac second msian third.....
2019-08-25 07:45
VERNACULAR SCHOOL SHOULD CONSIDER DISMANTLE ONLY, WHEN GOVT CAN SHOW PERFORMANCE IN THE NATIONAL SCHOOL MAH...!!
RIGHT NOW NATIONAL SCHOOL VERY BAD PERFORMANCE, VERY DANGEROUS TO DO ANYTHING NEGATIVE ON VERNACULAR SCHOOL LOH...!!
IN FACT VERNACULAR CHINESE SCHOOLS ARE THR BRIGHT SPARK OF OUR NATION RIGHT NOW MAH.....!!
Posted by EngineeringProfit > Aug 25, 2019 7:45 AM | Report Abuse
Vernacular schools produce nationalists first citizen who put their country interest first....and diversity to be treasured as wealth.....
.......while products of National schools are reli first rac second msian third.....
2019-08-25 14:50
ACTUALLY MSIA IS LUCKY TO HAVE VERNACULAR SCHOOL TO BE AROUND AFTER 60 YRS OF INDEPENDENCE LOH....!!
THE NATIONAL SCHOOL ARE IN SHAMBLES LOH....!!
2019-08-25 15:03
Posted by stockraider > Aug 25, 2019 3:03 PM | Report Abuse
ACTUALLY MSIA IS LUCKY TO HAVE VERNACULAR SCHOOL TO BE AROUND AFTER 60 YRS OF INDEPENDENCE LOH....!!
THE NATIONAL SCHOOL ARE IN SHAMBLES LOH....!!
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True......forget about long winded reintroducing civics......take baby step first....
......reform to produce msian first pupils in national schools (should put first thing first)
This simple task has failed over half a century......
2019-08-26 05:33
.......as the very first step towards UNITY......harmony
foundation for country to progress
All gaji buta for decades......missing an elephant in the room
2019-08-26 06:28
Khat jawi bagai biarlah di sekolah agama rakyat.. la ni berilah pendidikan inovasi pada rakyat.. dari kecil kita terapkan kepandaian reka cipta supaya kita mampu lahirkan modal insan yg mampu berdikari serta mampu bersaing di peringkat global.. tak perlulah kita kembali ke zaman silam.. sampai bila kita hendak menjadi bangsa penguna.. kita perlu bangsa malaysia yg kreatif bijak mencipta.. kerana itulah kelemahan kita.. hanya mampu melihat kejayaan negara lain. (Quote from Zul Raja Poll)
To repeat and reemphasize.....tak perlulah kita kembali ke zaman silam......sampai bila kita hendak menjadi bangsa penguna
......yang terus gagal mengajar arus perubahan dunia.....terus ketinggalan dalam perjuangan untuk menerajui revolusi zaman hadapan yang lebih canggih dan mencabar
2019-08-26 15:25
The rules (on hair length) should be scrapped. The Education Ministry should instead focus on improving the educational environment for students instead of enforcing trivial, outdated and useless rules, (JAMES on trivial school restrictive rulings)
2019-08-30 10:24
Coming soon in schools....
patriotic hour....bible hour......vedas hour......dharmasutra hour.....
.......tripitaka hour
2019-08-30 17:44
new research reveals that children from religious households are actually less generous than kids from a secular background
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jvchamary/2015/11/05/religion-morality/
2019-08-30 20:40
......1000 children from around the world, published in the journal Current Biology. The project was led by Professor Jean Decety, a neuroscientist from the University of Chicago, who didn’t originally aim to compare moral behavior. “I was more interested in whether I would find differences in empathy or sharing depending on the culture,”
Christian (24%), Muslim (43%) or not religious (28%). (Small numbers from Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu and agnostic homes weren’t compared.)
It reads: ....morality is part of our biology
History backs-up the scientific evidence that secular people are more moral,“Many nonreligious parents were more coherent and passionate about their ethical principles than some of the ‘religious’ parents … The vast majority appeared to live goal-filled lives characterised by moral direction and sense of life having a purpose.”
2019-08-30 20:45
And selfish children will grow up to be selfish adults....parents....
.....immor..
2019-08-30 22:35
....miracle would be 100,000 Malay children and more to come out of their UEC education and these children must be tracked and given support so that they can be the savior of a nation from the old bigotry of Muslims and Malays in the public schools (Tajuddin Rusdi)
2019-08-30 22:59
The state ministry should instead concentrate on strengthening the teaching of the Kadazan language in Sabah, as many Kadazandusun Murut (KDM) parents want their children to learn their mother tongue in vernacular schools (Aloysius Siap)
2019-08-31 18:48
It’s time to for the Harapan government to leave behind frivolous black- shoes, hotel-swimming pools and khat policies and move on to policies built around quality education, transparency and accountability (Lee Kiong Hock)
https://m.malaysiakini.com/letters/490127
2019-08-31 19:23
Kewujudan sekolah vernakular di negara ini tidak menghalang kepada penyatuan nasional, sebaliknya ia dapat meningkatkan nilai tambah dalam kalangan generasi muda, jika golongan ini bijak mengambil peluang ROHANI DIN)
2019-09-01 06:35
The educational quality of our national schools has greatly declined over the last three decades primarily due to the lack of competent teachers and effective school leaders. We are all paying the price for sacrificing quality for a narrow racist agenda and mediocrity. In the words of a close Malay friend of mine, "Singh, tak ada kualiti, tak apa. Janji orang kita yang jadi cikgu dan pengetua." (Ranjit Singh)
2019-09-01 09:56
......kids of certain ethnicity threaten other innocent minded kids of tender age about the cruelty of hellfire.....
......and merciless ......uncompassionate....punishment
2019-09-01 10:02
Forget about burdening students more with extra lessons like calligraphy and civics....
......tackle the problem directly
Launch this campaign nationwide for 366 days from next year;
STOP RACISM
MTake homw mssage to schools (to bring home and educate their parents too):
Racism is a symptom of psychological ill-health.
It is a sign of a lack of psychological integration, a lack of self-esteem and inner security.
Psychologically healthy people with a stable sense of self and strong inner security are not racist, because they have no need to strengthen their sense of self through group identity.
They have no need to define themselves in distinction to — and in conflict with — others.
Scientifically there is no biological basis for dividing the human race into distinct "races."
2019-09-02 06:54
After all, this is what they fail to learn in schools.......
.......for too long
The fact that racism is a symptom of psychological ill-health.
It is a sign of a lack of psychological integration, a lack of self-esteem and inner security.
Psychologically healthy people with a stable sense of self and strong inner security are not racist, because they have no need to strengthen their sense of self through group identity.
They have no need to define themselves in distinction to — and in conflict with — others.
Scientifically there is no biological basis for dividing the human race into distinct "races."
2019-09-02 06:57
Schoolers must not miss learning to understand.....
.....understanding the bad consequences from extreme racism:
PROGRSSION OF RACISM: ENMITY TOWARDS OTHER GROUPS
In order to further strengthen their sense of identity, members of a group may develop hostile feelings toward other groups. The group may become more defined and cohesive in its otherness to — and in its conflict with — other groups. Act benevolently towards members of their own group, but be cruel and heartless to anyone outside it. When members of a group take the step of withdrawing empathy from members of other groups, limiting their concern and compassion to their fellows. They may act benevolently towards members of their own group, but be cruel and heartless to anyone outside it. Members project their own psychological flaws and their own personal failings onto another group.
(Progression into MALIGNANT STAGE (the most dangerous and destructive stage)
Outcomes: Boycott, Bully, Thuggery
2019-09-03 18:39
Kids must be equiped with critical judgement....ability to recognise
.....PASism.........a fascism equivalent......... a form of far right-wing, authoritarian ultrafanaticism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy...
...........as opposed to liberalism, Marxism, and anarchism, fascism is placed on the far-right within the traditional left–right spectrum.
2019-09-04 08:29
And.....regimentation is very strict control over the way a group of people behave or the way something is done. Democracy is incompatible with excessive, bureaucratic regimentation of social life.
2019-09-04 08:32
Genuine reform must begin with a genuine interest to dismantle all forms if injustices, so that this land shall be the land for all Malaysians rightfully. " ( Dr Azly )
Yes.....all begin in schools.....melentur bulu biarlah dari lebung nya
2020-01-03 06:28
The pen is mightier than the sword" is a metonymic adage, penned by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839
2020-01-03 07:23
In the 21st Century.....Greatness is a man who can think beyond creed, skin colour and background.
A pest is otherwise.
2020-01-03 18:27
....and guilty by fitnah
With just one poison letter,
1. The joyous atmosphere was stolen away. What a disheartening sight for the hundred kids to see the decoration being removed.
2. An awkward feeling was sent to chill down the spine of dozen of teachers and other administrative staff
3. A 'pissed off' for right-minded Malaysians and even others who were against the culprit's stunt
4. Curiousity for the whole of world to wonder and question the writer, his credentials, and that of his learning institution.
2020-01-09 21:42
Insalvageable Corrupted, distorted and deluded from young in national schools nationwide
One of my many great grandchildren attended standard one in anational school this year. When he came home, I asked him to tell me things that happened in the memorable first day. He said a girl with headscarf stting in front of him threatened him that he would go to hell after a round of self-introducion in class.
My great grandchildren : Just because I am a Dayak and nonbeliever of her god or her holy scripture?
Me: Although your great grandfather, me, is a master in philosophy and psychology, I'll find it extremely challenging to undo the damage she had inflicted onto you intentionally or unintentionally.
My great grandchildren : I ran to question my class teacher, and guess what!? He affirmed what she told me!!!!
Me: Believe me. This is damned seriously and unmistakeably foolish, folly and utterly rubbish. I feel like stomping into your school tomorrow to discuss in your class, your dear little friend and class teacher about this incident. I'll call in the headmistress too. And ask your father to bring this up in the PTA meeting next month.
(to be continued)
2020-01-15 08:14
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