The hullabaloo about teaching Math and Science in Malay goes on. Frankly I am not bothered because my kids are not involved and if whole races choose to commit mass suicide, it is their choice! I don't think Najib's children are involved too but then again, isn't he a bit of an anglophile? I have the perfect solution that even Najib's pea brain can understand... teach English in Bahasa Malaysia!!!
At the rate Malay words rooted in English equivalents are being coined everyday, perhaps in a 100 years we will not have this problem anyway! Bahasa Malaysia will morph into pidgin English. This is a sure way the Melayu akan me-layu. So what else is new? What else is not imported anyway.
The sooner the government realizes it cannot have its cake and eat it the sooner the country (with its Malay majority) can begin to move forward:
1. It wants rural Malays to progress yet it wants them to maintain the pliant kampung mentality.
2. It wants Malays to be proficient in English yet it wants Malay culture to retain its "melayuness"
3. It knows we need strict discipline and pain to force the Malay masses forward towards a culture of meritocracy yet it wants to retain popularity at the ballot boxes in the short term
4. It wants a world class K-economy with independent thinking Malaysians yet for its own popularity it needs Malaysians to be dependent on the state and retain "boxed-in" mentality where values, knowledge base and thinking ability are only relevant in Malaysia.
5. The list goes on...but in a nutshell; the government knows the rural Malays need to "bite the bullet" to gain relevance and progress yet it wants them to have no pain (or rather it cannot afford for them to feel pain)!
- the writer is an old friend of mine and we came from the same schooll (KE VII). His opinion here reflect how the other races looked at this issue of reverting the teaching of science and maths to BM.
- points to ponder. Food for taught
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