– Lok Kong The Malaysian Insider July 16, 2013
No one would like to belittle the ones who make decisions and policies in the Ministry of Education. But these no-brainers were and still are making bias, useless and stupid decisions/policies.
Anything against their whims and fancies are taboo. They abruptly abolished the English schools left over by the British; they abruptly U-turn to teach Science and Mathematics in Bahasa Malaysia in all national schools; they suddenly make 3 subjects compulsory at private tertiary institutions. They are (!) Islamic and Asian Civilization, (2) Ethnic Relations and (3) Malaysian Studies. They must be taught in Bahasa Malaysia just to name a few major ones. All these stupid policies will retard the progress of Malaysia for many years.
Being no-brainers, they cannot cognitively think these policies are bad for the country as a whole generally and the Rakyat in particular. Being no-brainers, they are unable to think of good policies to educate the students to be useful and productive. Being no-brainers they enact policies that cause the huge brain drain in this country. Being no-brainers they eventually doom Malaysia.
Education is the most important for the nation. It takes good education policies to educate the Rakyat in many years. In Chinese culture it has been said that it takes 100 years to educate meaning very long time. How can the PPSMI show results after very short time? It was started in 2003 (Form 1), the first cohort can only graduate with first Degree in 2010 or 2011 and with MBBS in 2013 or 2014. It is very stupid to make 100% U-turn to stop teaching the Science and Mathematics in English and in Bahasa Malaysia instead. This flip-flopping within short time is not acceptable. What is the basis for doing so is best known to them. These no-brainers are nuts.
They don’t know that Science and technology are the fields which our education system must emphasize instead of religious studies, social sciences and art disciplines. For information China had been mired in very backward situation for some 5000 years was because of over-emphasizing on imperial examinations and was neglecting science and technology for the same period of time. The best way out is to only make the above said subjects elective ones.
For any race to be respected by the international community is to uplift its standard in many disciplines not otherwise. How this can be achieved? A forward looking and open education policy must be put in place. The global language is English. It is the best mean to be used to obtain many fields of advance knowledge. We must therefore be very bold to emphasize it by reintroducing the English medium schools as soon as possible.
We must admit that scientifically and technologically, all Malaysians (Chinese, Malays, Indians and all other minorities) are very backward compared to the west. In order to catch up, we must emphasize on science and technology. Making the subjects of Islamic and Asian Civilization, Ethnic Relation and Malaysian Studies compulsory subjects in Bahasa Malaysia is definitely not rational and is wasting precious time for studying useful subjects in science and technology. Many middle-east countries are very advance in religious knowledge but scientifically and technologically they are very backward. It looks like the no-brainers want Malaysia to be one like these countries.
No one speaks Bahasa Malaysia (BM) beyond our borders. Malaysia is a tinny country with 0.2% of world population. These no-brainers are so stupid and ignorant that they want to make BM world class language at par or better than English. Only these no-brainers have this wishful dream.
For almost 60 years, none of them has made good education system and good policies but apt at killing the good ones. When can these no-brainers change for the better, God knows! – July 16, 2013.