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Tun Mahathir to be acting Education Minister. Let's talk what you want for education?
Dear all,
I had just posted the below comment in Tun Mahathir's blog.
Dear PM Tun Dr Mahathir,
I am deeply saddened, disturbed and alarmed by what I read in Tun’s blog comments and wonder whether Tun feels the same?
http://www.bernama.com/en/news.php?id=1804655
“To become a developed country, we wanted to overcome nine challenges under Vision 2020 -- fostering a united country, a society with a liberated spirit, a democratic society, a moral and ethical society, a liberal society, a scientific and progressive society, a caring society, an economically just society, and a prosperous society.
“That was our aim and if we had achieved these nine objectives, apart from progress in other areas like education, technology, social equity and the like, then we would have been considered a developed country,” he said.
Dr Mahathir hoped that the people would understand the challenges outlined under Vision 2020.
Judging by what were expressed by many Tun’s blog commentators, we are far from achieving these nine objective. The question now is why Malaysians had regressed into their own silo with closed minded and refuse to see things beyond their own identity of race, religion and stereotyping?
Malaysia had been and will always be a multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multi-cultural and multi-lingual nation. All ethnic groups have shed their blood, toiled and sacrificed for this nation of ours and build this nation to what it is today. Let no one ever take that away from any of us or claim exclusively Malaysia only belongs to particular ethnic group. For the love of our nation we should all learn to live together and respect each other the sooner the better for all of us.
Malaysia is blessed with the strength of its diversity and with diversity Malaysia is able to develop from post-colonial agriculture/commodities laid-back economy to become the world 35th largest economy in the world with a high density of diverse knowledge-based industries and adoption of cutting edge technology for manufacturing, digital economy and trading with every nations in the world because of our multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multi-cultural and multi-lingual strength. According to the Global Competitiveness Report 2018, the Malaysian economy is the 25th most competitive country in the world in the period of 2018–19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Malaysia
Tun plays a pivotal role in turning our economy development into a newly industrialized nation during Tun’s first premiership from 1981-2003. For Tun’s second premiership, I welcome news that Tun is taking up the addition duty as acting Education Minister.
As a case in point, Daim highlighted again the loophole allowing well-to-do Malays to gain limited public scholarships under Majlis Amanah Rakyat (Mara) and entry into Mara Junior Science College (MRSM) at the expense of poorer Bumiputera, including both urban and rural poor and from indigenous groups.
He claimed many well-off Bumiputera were abusing the policies to enrich themselves.
“We have been robbing the poor to further uplift those who do not deserve the support, and this widening of the education and income gap must come to an end,” he said.
He noted that some Bumiputera even resort to racial fear-mongering to maintain their perks.
“The fearmongering is only to encourage and continue this abuse. It's time to stop the ‘them versus us’ rhetoric,” he said.
"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.”
"To participate in IR4, we must go through a knowledge-based economy and here Malaysia has failed because the government, through the Ministry of Education, has not got its priorities right. The Education Ministry must not fail our nation.
"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 speak the truth and the truth hurt deeply but shall set us free. Our education had failed to empower Malaysians with the ability to think critically, logically, wisely and to make their own informed decisions, no matter the situation. Our education failed miserably to produce new generation of enlightening political leaders, spiritual leaders and great thinkers as our education is more on indoctrination of mind rather than liberation of the mind and many learned people are so closed minded that they refuse to listen, to think critically, to learn, to unlearn and relearn.
It is my hope Tun as acting Education Minister will have the political will and courage not to placate but to do what needed to be done for real changes in Education Policy as articulated by Tun Daim. An education that empowered Malaysians with critical thinking and open minded and prepared Malaysians for knowledge based economy and IR 4.0/5.0. An education that fostering a united country, a society with a liberated spirit, a democratic society, a moral and ethical society, a liberal society, a scientific and progressive society, a caring society, an economically just society, and a prosperous society.
Thank you
Yours truly,
SS LEE
P/S: Please can everyone not trolling the respectful Tun’s blog with senseless comments but keep our comment respectfully.
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Here - the blog on education - what we want
WRITE WE MUST .....haha
2020-01-17 15:51
Answers:
1. Ministers to lead by example....show the way:
It's high time to make it compulsory of all the ministers'children to attend national school.......
2020-01-17 15:52
What this will lead too ??
All chinese school children must attend national school, there will be no chinese school loh...!!
Sweeping compulsion is very bad mah...!!
Posted by EngineeringProfit > Jan 17, 2020 3:52 PM | Report Abuse
Answers:
1. Ministers to lead by example....show the way:
It's high time to make it compulsory of all the ministers'children to attend national school.......
2020-01-17 15:55
Ok. Let's rephrase:
1. Ministers to lead by example....show the way:
It's high time to make it compulsory of all the ministers'children to attend national or vernacular schools......
2020-01-17 15:59
2. Privatise all those openly stated race-based learning institutions with zero responsibility when comes to promoting national unity agenda - social interaction-integration among the students of different ethnicities and creeds
2020-01-17 15:59
this era, to find the root for rotting of a country, one just needs to relook into the children's education.
2020-01-17 17:47
Ah ENG and the old man must go to save our economy. I really dislike the Ah ENG especially when he rejected the GST which is best Tax system practiced by 165 countries. Ah ENG is very ignorant. His corrupted case also been swept under the carpet.
2020-01-17 17:54
Pervasive, institutionalized barriers remain in place that prevent eakyats from practicing their faith or nonbelief in accordance with their conscience.
2020-01-17 19:44
Today, government policy, decision making, leadership, and institutional development are all influenced by certain ‘sinister’ deep state dark forces.
2020-01-17 19:47
With over RM100 million every month, these subliminal psychological forces are controlling political outcomes that are appearing more irrational and dysfunctional as time goes on. Certainly getting pay for a unworthy job done is a sin.
2020-01-17 19:51
These delusionally psychotic beliefs are heavily skewing political decision making. This cognitive dissonance has been destructive upon community relations, nation building, national culture, and even the noble concept of everyone's nationhood itself.
2020-01-17 19:53
While the neighbour governments and mamy others across the world try to build community integration, enhance the national culture, and hold nationhood as something sacrosanct, TakBolehland leaders are for political ends allowing these basic nation-building things to deteriorate.
2020-01-17 19:55
The native aspirations, original dreams and basic hopes of Sabahans, Sarawakians, and Orang Asli (the true indigenous people),have been excluded.
2020-01-17 19:57
There is no narrative of inclusiveness anymore. Today’s narratives are focused on severing empathetic ties between the various ethnic groups, replacing them with a biased single narrative akin to the film Tanda Putera
2020-01-17 19:59
Despicable leaders have led rakyats now live within a psychic prison that is full of illusions about enemies which don’t exist.
2020-01-17 20:00
..........fighting a civil psyche war which originated from the mind of those undeservingly psychotically deluded leaders
2020-01-17 20:02
The narcissistic distain for other cultures was recently displayed when a school principal veep of an ultra- Malay party demanded that Chinese New Year decorations be removed from the school.
2020-01-17 20:03
.....ans the outlaw still walk free amd can still demand for dig-nity
2020-01-17 20:04
Citizens of Malaysia are smothered with a single dimensional, myopic view.
2020-01-17 20:05
Racism has become so much embedded within local culture to the extent of delusion. Its now ingrained into the psych.......
........found in every school, every universities, every institution, every ministry
2020-01-17 20:07
This God-damned toxic racism is the emotional precursor to repressing and discriminating against other groups.
2020-01-17 20:08
This is not what we want!
What we want is exactly the opposite of the above!!!
2020-01-17 20:09
It's high time to break up the fallacies that are hindering the pursuit of nationhood. These include the fallacy that public enterprise can do what private enterprise can’t do. This is where the elite have gained their ill-gotten wealth and most state economic development corporations, and their subsidiaries are bedrocks of corruption.
2020-01-17 20:11
Malay culture is quickly being killed off by the Arab fallacy. Malay and other indigenous cultures originated from three distinct sources. Those indigenous to Tanah Melayu (the Malay Peninsula), Sabah and Sarawak, those who migrated to Malaysia from the Nusantara archipelago, and those who migrated to Malaysia while the Sultanates were riverine rather than territorially defined. Some of the migrants from outside of Nusantara over the centuries from China and South Asia formed a unique Baba culture that has co-existed with Malay culture for centuries. Once, Malays, Chinese, Indians and the other peoples of Malaysia celebrated Hari Raya, Chinese New Year, Christmas, and Deepavali together as a symbol of unity, this is now forbidden.
2020-01-17 20:12
Dahulu biar mati anak, jangan biar mati adat
Sekarang semua ala arab, papan catur pun berkulat
2020-01-17 20:16
URGENT: MUST BAR WOLF IN SHEEP SKIN FROM ATTENDING OR OFFICIATING ANY SPORT EVENTS ( BEWARE: DANGER WHICH INNOCENT SPORTY KIDS ARE NOT AWARE OF)
While we enjoy watching gymnastic to ease our own mental stress from our vocational or professional work, there are certain kinds of people who are virtually wolves in sheep skin.
Ignobly and sinfully, they lustfully scheming the sport person's physical bodies, instead of seeing the sportmanship inside them.
No one can be certained of any amount of psychotherapy or cognitive behavioural can be of help to this like-minded group of people.
Conclusion, they must be barred from attending, watching or officiating any sport event. There is no two ways about this.
2020-01-18 17:47
Still need more and more and endless study??? : Man's talk - STRAIGHT TO THE POINT
When the people choose NAJIB's party over pH, something must be very, very damned wrong. They would rather swim in a pool of poop than to be belittled with the rubbish that Mhathir and his bodoh sombong gang are throwing at them. The PM's arrogance has reached breaking point and pH's supporters ARE FED UP.
2020-01-18 21:33
FIRSTLY WE MUST ASK WHAT TO CHUCK AWAY....
What sort of upbringing would lead one to follow the path of corruption?
2020-01-19 07:54
We want immediate pest control...
.....moe is infested by wahabugs and salaflukes
2020-01-19 08:16
Profiling of the kleptocrats and corruptible
1. Decent education from well established paper mills, fully funded by the Public Service Department, Mara or some other government agency, heavy exposure to wahabugs and salaflukes from young
2020-01-19 08:17
Epicurus' trilemma:
If God is unable to prevent the drowning of His above followers, then still the all-powerful God?
If God has the power to save the kids but not willing to do so, then still all-good-cum-merciful?
If God is both willing and able to prevent evil, then why does evil exist?
2020-01-19 11:36
These skills help students learn, and so they are vital to success in school and beyond:
A. Critical Thinking
2020-01-19 11:38
A critical thinker is able to deduce consequences from what he knows, and he knows how to make use of information to solve problems, and to seek relevant sources of information to inform himself wihout a busybody second or third party. Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day. Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime!
Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally about what to do or what to believe. It includes the ability to engage in reflective and independent thinking. Someone with critical thinking skills is able to do the following :
understand the logical connections between ideas
identify, construct and evaluate arguments
detect inconsistencies and common mistakes in reasoning
solve problems systematically
identify the relevance and importance of ideas
reflect on the justification of one's own beliefs and values
2020-01-19 11:44
Good critical thinking is the foundation of science and democracy. Science requires the critical use of reason in experimentation and theory confirmation. The proper functioning of a liberal democracy requires citizens who can think critically about social issues to inform their judgments about proper governance and to overcome biases and prejudice.
Critical thinking is a domain-general thinking skill. The ability to think clearly and rationally is important whatever we choose to do. If you work in education, research, finance, management or the legal profession, then critical thinking is obviously important. But critical thinking skills are not restricted to a particular subject area. Being able to think well and solve problems systematically is an asset for any career.
2020-01-19 11:46
How does fundamentalism hamper critical thinking development, and hijack the course of sapiens' brain developmemnt?
2020-01-19 11:53
A thoughtful attorney from San Antonio, Tex., wrote recently to ask, “Is there an intellectually honest Christian evolutionist position? Or do we simply have to check our brains at the church house door?” The answer is, you indeed have to check your brains. Why do scientists, university graduates and all the learned ones publicly deny the implications of modern science, and promulgate the compatibility of religion and science? Wishful thinking, religious training, and intellectual dishonesty are the underlying factors?
2020-01-19 12:05
Standard One just need to learn Socratic Method of questioning (cultivate curiosita), Plato's Cave ( the habit of thinking out-of-the-box) ans Epicurus (systematic examination of factual claims)
2020-01-19 12:58
For gaji buta inferior teachers, education is just baout filing the vessels.
For a superior educator, education is about kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
2020-01-19 17:36
Religion is like 'sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll'?
A recent study that Medical News Today reported on found that religion activates the same reward-processing brain circuits as sex, drugs, and other addictive activities.
(Karl Marx's opium of all sapiens)
Make sure schools are free from then!!!
2020-01-19 17:37
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. Stop wasting public fund by funding rote learning - 'filling of vessel' paper mills, substandard learning institutions and fake schools.
2020-01-19 19:48
"I don’t understand why people can be influenced by those who cheated and stole," PM said.
Clue to simple answer: education
2020-01-20 17:31
With poor quality education with obsolete way to guide character-building and civilizes belief system of the 21st Century:
PH members are more interested in fighting over posts rather than working for the people
2020-01-20 17:38
Always Be On The Side Of The Angels, Not Devils
Without meritocracy, mediocrity and poverty prevail
1. If you are going to reinstate, that across the board, the medium of instruction for Maths and Science will be in English, then you are going to have to find teachers proficient enough in English to handle this. To that end, it means retraining. There is no need to rush off and form expensive deals which will involve bringing in expatriates to do the job or sending our teachers overseas for courses. I actually wrote an open letter to Maszlee more than a year ago to let him know that there are solutions right here. I offered my services, even then. All you need to do is set up a register of retired teachers and use them to conduct inservice courses, beginning like yesterday. These teachers can come under the direct purview of the MOE. I can come up with a list of excellent former English Language teachers whom I am personally willing to train to carry out the training of these teachers. I’m good at what I do. I’m ready to stake my reputation and my commitment to excellence on this.
2. Address the “ anxieties and fragility” of the Malays ( your own words, by the way), and their ridiculous worry in response to Dong Zong’s plan for a conference to discuss the forced inclusion of Jawi calligraphy into an already crowded syllabus. Also, just a little aside before I continue. “If you spend most of your life having your racial identity and supremacy enforced rather than have them deconstructed”, as Marcus Woolombi Waters laments, “you will see a way through, instead of adding to the fear”. Maybe, you might want to read through some of his works. It may give you an insight into, say, the likes of Trump. Or maybe, don’t go there at all. You might source more Malay “anxieties and fragilities” than we have room or time for.
3. Anyways, since a cabinet decision has already been made about it, keep Jawi in as an elective. No one really cares. I learnt Jawi....I have never used it since. My children learnt Jawi. They have never used it since. Also, neither I or my children have embraced Islam because we learnt Jawi. Its inclusion only became an issue, when the issue was oversimplified along racial lines and compounded by the stupid rhetoric around vernacular schools. One has nothing to do with the other. You of all people know that. Since you now are in a position to do something about this ‘boohaha’, then do so. By the way, doing away with vernacular schools is just cutting your nose to spite your face. The Malay parents who have enrolled their children into these schools are going to get real pissy if they close. Better you be sure you have an alternative worthy of producing scholars of meritocracy. And no, our Sekolah Kebangsaan is not the answer. You know these have become ‘Medan Dakwa’ in many cases. Sigh!
*From Carol Jennifer Soars*
2020-01-20 18:28
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