Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-16 20:48 | Report Abuse

Although moral, celestral, astromythological, biological and historical knowledge gap has narrowed down due to new evidences from scientific research by sapiens of all creeds and ethnicities, students' understanding of themselves, living things around them and the earth still embarrassingly too redimentary, pathetically too superficial and unassumingly primitive at best (by any modern standard)

What has gone wrong? Major hindrance? What is stopping the innocent children from learning properly, becoming a simpleton (Pak Pandir abad ke-21) or the 21st Century misfits (Si Lebai Malang)?

moe must bear full responsibility for producing Pak Pandir and Si Lebai Malang in this very challemging era, no?

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-16 20:50 | Report Abuse

Must we continue to suffer agony, pain and embarassment of being world laughing stock, either from the appointment of Pak Pandirs as blackshoe or flying car pet ministers, or deluded Si Lebai Malang who was privileged to set university question, presented the subjective opinion on a controversial fugitive being an icon as factual truth?

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-16 20:52 | Report Abuse

Together we must put a stop to elements which corrupt, distort and delude minds 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)

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 05:13 | Report Abuse

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190521101505.htm

Planetologists at the University of Münster (Germany) have now been able to show, for the first time, that water came to Earth with the formation of the Moon some 4.4 billion years ago. Researchers now have shown that Theia comes from the outer solar system, and it delivered large quantities of water to Earth.

From earlier studies, we know that the solar system became structured such that the 'dry' materials were separated from the 'wet' materials: the so-called 'carbonaceous' meteorites, which are relatively rich in water, come from the outer solar system, whereas the drier 'non-carbonaceous' meteorites come from the inner solar system.

The molybdenum isotopes allow researchers to clearly distinguish carbonaceous and non-carbonaceous material, and as such represent a 'genetic fingerprint' of material from the outer and inner solar system, Earth lies between those of the carbonaceous and non-carbonaceous meteorites, demonstrating that some of Earth's molybdenum originated in the outer solar system. The molybdenum which is accessible today in the Earth's mantle, therefore, originates from the late stages of Earth's formation, while the molybdenum from earlier phases is entirely in the core,

They show that most of the molybdenum in Earth's mantle was supplied by the protoplanet Theia, whose collision with Earth 4.4 billion years ago led to the formation of the Moon. However, since a large part of the molybdenum in Earth's mantle originates from the outer solar system, this means that Theia itself also originated from the outer solar system. According to the scientists, the collision provided sufficient carbonaceous material to account for the entire amount of water on Earth.

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 06:15 | Report Abuse

Abiogenesis from self-assembling organic molecules : Chemical to biological evolution

In November 2019, scientists reported detecting, for the first time, sugar molecules, including ribose, in meteorites, suggesting that chemical processes on asteroids can produce some fundamentally essential bio-ingredients important to life, and supporting the notion of an RNA world prior to a DNA-based origin of life on Earth, and possibly, as well, the notion of panspermia.

In 2016, a set of 355 genes likely present in the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) of all organisms living on Earth was identified.

LUCA was anaerobic, CO2-fixing, H2-dependent with a Wood–Ljungdahl pathway, N2-fixing and thermophilic. LUCA’s biochemistry was replete with FeS clusters and radical reaction mechanisms.

LUCA inhabited an anaerobic hydrothermal vent setting in a geochemically active environment rich in H2, CO2 and iron.

Early micro-fossils came from a hot world of gases such as methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulphide, which are toxic to much current life. They were thermophilic and hyperthermophilic; and may have evolved in a hot environment.

Carbon fixation via iron-sulfur chemistry is highly favourable, and occurs at neutral pH and 100 °C (212 °F). Iron-sulfur surfaces, which are abundant near hydrothermal vents, are also capable of producing small amounts of amino acids and other biological metabolites. Nucleobases like guanine and adenine could be synthesized from simple carbon and nitrogen sources like hydrogen cyanide and ammonia.

Formamide is ubiquitous in the Universe, produced by the reaction of water and hydrogen cyanide (HCN). Formamide produces all four ribonucleotides and other biological molecules when warmed in the presence of various terrestrial minerals. HCN is easily become concentrated (assembled) through the evaporation of water. In addition,
a research project completed in March 2015 by John D. Sutherland and others found that a network of reactions beginning with hydrogen cyanide and hydrogen sulfide, in streams of water irradiated by UV light, could produce the chemical components of proteins and lipids, as well as those of RNA,

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 06:15 | Report Abuse

A new origin-of-life theory based on self-replicating beta-sheet structures was recently put forward. The theory suggest that self-replicating and self-assembling catalytic amyloids were the first informational polymers in a primitive pre-RNA world.

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 11:44 | Report Abuse

Although moral, celestral, astromythological, biological and historical knowledge gap has narrowed down due to new evidences from scientific research by sapiens of all creeds and ethnicities, students' understanding of themselves, living things around them and the earth still embarrassingly too redimentary, pathetically too superficial and unassumingly primitive at best (by any modern standard)

What has gone wrong? Major hindrance? What is stopping the innocent children from learning properly, becoming a simpleton (Pak Pandir abad ke-21) or the 21st Century misfits (Si Lebai Malang)?

moe must bear full responsibility for producing Pak Pandir and Si Lebai Malang in this very challemging era, no?

Posted by stockraider > 2020-01-17 11:46 | Report Abuse

The question is would mahathir maintain the stupid policy of Mazlee or he is going to reform and do it better leh ?

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 11:48 | Report Abuse

Not him. Zaid Ibrahim will be the man

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 11:50 | Report Abuse

One and Only Strategy

The odds for GE15 and Msia Future are:

1. Zaid Ibrahim has to win big in Kelantan for GE15, and

2. his party needs to be propelled to be the biggest winner of all, so that he can be the PM

3. moe's education reform must happen to help young voters to help him to win there

ALL THREE MUST HAPPEN..............It is all sine qua non

Posted by stockraider > 2020-01-17 11:51 | Report Abuse

Zaid ibrahim as an education minister is just a dream loh...!!

Need to be realistic mah....!!

Posted by stockraider > Jan 17, 2020 11:46 AM | Report Abuse X

The question is would mahathir maintain the stupid policy of Mazlee or he is going to reform and do it better leh ?


Posted by EngineeringProfit > Jan 17, 2020 11:48 AM | Report Abuse

Not him. Zaid Ibrahim will be the man

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 11:52 | Report Abuse

None of the many others got the right grey matter bulk in the critical area of the brain to do propwr reform.........

.....if you understand what latest neuroscience tells us about their brains

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 11:53 | Report Abuse

Not, edu minister.....but next pm

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 11:54 | Report Abuse

Not a dream.....the biggest one for anak2 Msia

Posted by stockraider > 2020-01-17 11:54 | Report Abuse

Sometime we can dream dream on loh....!!

when we wake up....it still reality & fact loh....!!

Posted by EngineeringProfit > Jan 17, 2020 11:52 AM | Report Abuse

None of the many others got the right grey matter bulk in the critical area of the brain to do propwr reform.........

.....if you understand what latest neuroscience tells us about their brains


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Posted by EngineeringProfit > Jan 17, 2020 11:53 AM | Report Abuse

Not, edu minister.....but next pm

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 11:56 | Report Abuse

Real question now is: How to ensure Zaid Ibrahim win big in Kelantan in GE15?

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 11:57 | Report Abuse

federal agent of his allies esp. moe must do something to make it happen

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 11:59 | Report Abuse

When that happens, hopefully we see him leading him party becomes the biggest winner in GE15.....

.....and he can be the next pm

No?

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 13:25 | Report Abuse

Academics are correct in pinpointing the exact period in which Muslims began turning away from scientific innovation – the 11th century – but they have identified the wrong person, al-Ghazali who concluded that falsafa (which literally means philosophy but included logic, mathematics and physics) was incompatible with Islam. Abu Ali al-Hassan al-Tusi (1018–1092), better known as Nizam al-Mulk, the grand vizier of the Seljuq dynasty, was in fact the driving force.

Nizam al-Mulk had created a system of education known as "Nizamiyah" that focused on religious studies at the expense of independent inquiry. For the first time in Islamic history, religious studies became institutionalised and religious studies were seen as a more lucrative career path. Previously, sciences and Islamic law were intertwined.

https://en.qantara.de/content/the-decline-of-islamic-scientific-thought-dont-blame-it-on-al-ghazali

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 13:26 | Report Abuse

Now, why do we want kids to study history? And what can they learn from it?

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 13:29 | Report Abuse

key words: system of education, institutionalised, more lucrative career path

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 13:30 | Report Abuse

​​Not only did Nizamiyah colleges focus on religion but they also adopted a narrow Sunni interpretation of faith-based jurisprudence as the source of curricula: the Shafi'i school. The choice was not arbitrary. The Shafi'i school focused on the fundamentalist principles of Sharia and disdained the rationalist approach that had gained momentum during the reigns of Damascus-based Umayyad dynasty and the Baghdad-based Abbasid dynasty.

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 13:31 | Report Abuse

Why do we want kids to study history? And how can they learn from it?

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 13:34 | Report Abuse

Key words: colleges/universities, narrow interpretation, faith-based jurisprudence, fundamentalist principles, disdained the rationalist approach

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 13:38 | Report Abuse

Academics are correct in pinpointing the exact period in which Muslims began turning away from scientific innovation – the 11th century....

Scholars at the time noted the tendency of students to leave their traditional schools to study religion at the colleges. Graduates were given priority in key government jobs, namely in the judiciary, hisbah/police (Sharia enforcement or police) and fiqh/judges (jurisprudence). Nizamiyah colleges were the Ivy League colleges of the 12th century. Scholars graduating from the colleges were armed with argumentative skills like ZN.

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 13:43 | Report Abuse

It was the those colleges and universities which operated for over decades-centuries, together with the financial and political backing of the powerful dynasty that diverted Middleeasterners towards religion. The Abbasid, which was the guardian of science, was in decline. Religious intolerance started to entrench and scientific inquiry was burried alive.

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 13:50 | Report Abuse

Al-Ghazali who initially taught in Nizamiyah colleges, but later left.
His book was meant is to "pinpoint the incoherence of [the philosophers'] creed and the contradiction of their words, with regard to theology, and to point out the vicissitudes and shortcomings of their way of thinking". He distinguished between philosophy and logic on one hand and physics and mathematics on the other. No Muslim scholar at the time had advocated views against science because of al-Ghazali's thesis.

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 13:55 | Report Abuse

The colleges, on the other hand, played a colossal role in stifling scientific innovation by focusing on religious studies to achieve a political end.

Their legacy continues today. They are widely praised by Sunni clerics for their role in the dominance of their own kind who disdain innovation.

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 14:08 | Report Abuse

Now, why do we want kids to study history? And what can they learn from it?

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 14:43 | Report Abuse

Lead by Example

It's high time to make it compulsory of all the ministers'children to attend national school.......

.......if the Malaysian education system is good enough, then why are the children of ministers and political leaders not being sent to the sekolah kebangsaan (national school)?

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 14:46 | Report Abuse

By only pointing out vernacular schools as the source preventing racial integration, Asri has conveniently ignored the presence of boarding schools, Maktab Rendah Sains Mara (MRSM) schools, pondok and tahfiz schools, Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), and other similar learning institutions which only have a single race or a vast majority of a single race.

How these have been doing in terms of allowing social integration and interaction among the different races and religions?

Posted by stockraider > 2020-01-17 15:06 | Report Abuse

Remember the chinese school has a better racial mix participation of all races compare with the national school loh....!!

in order words the chinese school is more muhibbah compare to national school loh...!!

Alot of parent who want their children to mix freely with all races chose to send their children to chinese school loh...!!

Posted by EngineeringProfit > Jan 17, 2020 2:46 PM | Report Abuse

By only pointing out vernacular schools as the source preventing racial integration, Asri has conveniently ignored the presence of boarding schools, Maktab Rendah Sains Mara (MRSM) schools, pondok and tahfiz schools, Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), and other similar learning institutions which only have a single race or a vast majority of a single race.

How these have been doing in terms of allowing social integration and interaction among the different races and religions?

Posted by stockraider > 2020-01-17 15:24 | Report Abuse

That is for national school mah....!!

The chinese school do not have such problem, even the composition of malay students as high as 20% to 30% loh....!!

Posted by Invincible > Jan 17, 2020 3:16 PM | Report Abuse

cannot racia mix la, after the hardworking chinese students go follow those lazy one. the worst is religious, all pray 5 times a day, I was told that they spend about half an hour for each praying so 5 X 1/2 is 2.5 hours wasted everyday.


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Posted by Invincible > Jan 17, 2020 3:18 PM | Report Abuse

engineering, you are really very free, everyday write so much. I wonder who really go and read your long useless stories, except that bodoh raider bec he is also very free. Can you pls stop writing all those rubbish?

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 15:49 | Report Abuse

Haha....you'll know how free you can be when you cross 100 years old, Invincible


.....not to mention insomnia (extra time late into the evening and early in the dawn)

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 15:51 | Report Abuse

Here - the blog on education - what we want

WRITE WE MUST .....haha

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 15:52 | 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.......

Posted by stockraider > 2020-01-17 15:55 | Report Abuse

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.......

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 15:59 | Report Abuse

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......

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 15:59 | Report Abuse

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

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 17:29 | Report Abuse

3. We want him to clean up the mess he created

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 17:47 | Report Abuse

this era, to find the root for rotting of a country, one just needs to relook into the children's education.

Posted by Sky Soo > 2020-01-17 17:54 | Report Abuse

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.

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 19:43 | Report Abuse

Correct. Bad him

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 19:44 | Report Abuse

Pervasive, institutionalized barriers remain in place that prevent eakyats from practicing their faith or nonbelief in accordance with their conscience.

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 19:47 | Report Abuse

Today, government policy, decision making, leadership, and institutional development are all influenced by certain ‘sinister’ deep state dark forces.

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 19:51 | Report Abuse

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.

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 19:53 | Report Abuse

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.

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 19:55 | Report Abuse

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.

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 19:57 | Report Abuse

The native aspirations, original dreams and basic hopes of Sabahans, Sarawakians, and Orang Asli (the true indigenous people),have been excluded.

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-01-17 19:59 | Report Abuse

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