Yes,it's the race based policy that the gov't propagates that caused all these problems.
Arrest Mukhriz for sedition charge.

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Technically, what Mukhriz had said was seditious as he was questioning the provisions of the Constitution.

But his line of thought on a singular education system may not be totally wrong in the long run. What is wrong. I think, is in the proposed methods and medium of instruction.

A good education system takes a long time to evolve and to be recognised and accepted by society. Hence, it has taken us more than 3 decades to be bold enough to cry out loud that the current system is now no bloody good!

Why 3 decades or more? The answer lies with the change of the medium of instruction from English to BM in the 70s. The standard of teaching in all levels of education has been spiraling downwards since the change and it has taken this long time for people to pluck up their courage to say so publicly! The problem has been further compounded by the strong infusion of Islamic studies and methods into the national schools’ curriculum and even in the canteens, so much so this had further alienated the children of different religions as well as their parents from each other. So, the problem is also not just about the language here.

This education problem we are having now will not just go away no matter who says what. Malaysians will definitely be all stuck with it for some time. I therefore think the pragmatic thing to do is to allow nature to take its course. Meanwhile, let the people have an additional choice of English-type schools from primary to secondary and up to the tertiary levels. Let's see how this will change the direction and standard of teaching in our education system and how it will affect the mindset of our future students and parents. Not enough English teachers? Import them lah. Then, let's see whether Malaysians will still stick to their guns and fight over which local language school system is the better one with the higher standard of teaching, in BM, Mandarin or Tamil? Let's see whether parents will instead change and go for a neutral language in English which is also an international and commercial language. Just give or take another 10-20 years, and we shall have the results!

I firmly believe that the above suggestion is not preposterous as some would like to think but rather a practical solution to our multi-racial needs. Not that teaching in English is new to us. It was just abruptly taken away in the 70s as the medium of instructions in schools for political reasons. And there is no more need to elaborate on the pros of a full English medium education. Those who were born before 1957 know what it is all about as they have practically grown up with the language. And I can tell you one thing for sure is that everyone then was genuinely more Malayan or Malaysian than we are now!

The older politicians, those who were English educated from young, if you look back and if your conscience is still with you, you should help the younger Malaysians get a better education through the English language. You need not be parochial. English is nothing but a tool for progress and perhaps to be used even as a neutral tool to unify the masses. I hate to say this but look at Singapore. There can be no better country for comparison purposes. They must have done it correctly for so many years. That's why there is the big difference between the economies and peoples' mindsets of our two countries. We are miles apart! I hope someone with the political strength up there will hear this out and do something concrete about it for the future generations of Malaysians. We must quickly wake up from this big education slumber!

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Will any sane member of parliament please report to the police that mukriz is committing a seditious act by raising the call for elimination of vernacular schools. The police must put a stop to all these racial allegations by BN representatives. At the moment the police will only arrest people that are not from BN for such racial remarks.
As long as the police continue to favour the ruling BN members, the rakyat will not respect the police and the perception that they are unfair to the ordinary people will continue to haunt them.

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Mukhriz Mahathir :

The truth of your intention is clear that you wanted the integration of vernacular schools into a single educational system is indeed a noble vision for the country. However, the approach and methodology is erroneous misunderstood.

This single educational system would have students of all races studying under one roof but the main distinction is that students of various races will attend to their respective classes/curriculum where Geography; History; respective Language studies will be taught as they were before.

Students under this one educational system will integrate to attend classes/lessons taught in English Language for Sciences and Mathematics. They will be taught by trained and specialists in their respective field of specialty.

By integrating the educational system under one roof, this system enables an opportunity of integration of teachers and students in one school.

Generally, children have the opportunity to mix around better with all races in one school rather than a polarisation of one single race or community. This is the true Malaysian culture and not to be isolated but integrated to live and nurture further into a Malaysian Identity.

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I don't understand why he has to be criticized so heavily and threatened to be charge in the court of law!Isn't what he said is true? If we want our children to become united as one "bangsa Malaysia" then the idea is the solution needed. Don't bring politic into this please. I too hate UMNO so bad, I hate Mahathir to the core but what Mukhriz says is true and it remains that way no matter who utters it.

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Well done Mukhriz, You have learn to play a game.

Today agenda is not what you want - your goal is to win the minority malay for your next Umno position, or so call steping stone at the India and Chinese.

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It is very clear that Mukhriz has violated one of the four sensitive issues entrenched in the Constitution. He has committed sedition and should face the law. There is no two ways about it. As an MP, he should know better what can be said and what cannot be said. Bro. LKS, why ask him to retract or apologies. Go and make the polis report as well as take whatever necessary action needed in Parliament to teach those UMNOgoons to respect the Constitution. That Mukriss s/o Mamak is beginning to show its colours. Like father like son.

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Jerlun MP Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir's call for the integration of vernacular schools into a single education system.....

WHY NOW? WHY CAN'T UMNO IMPLEMENT IT 50 YEARS AGO! BODOH PUNYA IDEA!

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teo siew chin wrote:
>get the best globalised education system, the best teachers for sekolah kebangsaan...make it the School of Excellence, saluted by not only our rakyat but those outside of the country...in time, all will flock to the School of Excellence and the vernacular schools will be redundant.]]

Exactly as I'd written since blogs became popular here in Malaysia. To get the best teachers would entail, of course, a thorough overhaul of nearly every BN-created institution in this country. The functional word is MERITOCRACY (remember I'm talking about operating - still - under a capitalist system).

IF standards are high in national schools many non-Malays - especially the Chinese - would flock to it because Malay is a much easier language to learn. Moreover, as the non-Malay populations dwindled, it would be advantageous for businesspeople to be able to master the language of the majority.

The problem, then, is NOT about vernacular schools which is a red herring thrown by those who've privileged themselves above all Malaysians - and thus hypocritically supporting national schools while sending their own children to private schools or overseas - but the racist attitude of people in the UMNO leadership.

This UMNO/BN-fostered racism is behind the creation of schools that reflect only one community, that hired monstrous teachers such as the one who committed what'd been rightly termed as "unprintable racial slurs" to a minority girl and REWARDED her for it (remember the history teacher from SM Telok Panglima Garang who was not only transferred to a smart school but to one located nearer her house - AFTER she made her racist remarks?).

It is UMNO that causes disunity in the country by dividing ethnic groups in bumis and nonbumis, and from there to one of Malays and pendatangs. Throw them out and the entire nation would be united within a generation. For all its troubles, Pakatan remains the only hope to achieve this.

Finally, when UMNO is wiped out and our national schools become excellent educational institutions, the biggest problem might be, indeed, the slow redundancy of vernacular schools. That would be such a pity: all great nations have gone to great lengths to preserve minority languages and culture, and I won't be surprised that a future progressive government might find it necessary to double the existing vernacular schools and even promote minority-language universities, as Temenggong suggests.

Diversity is no barrier to unity. History has shown how people from different races and cultures came together under some common ideology or religion. The multi-national forces that flocked to help the Republican Spain fight against the fascist Franco is one example. In the case of Iraq, Muslims from large parts of the world actually travelled there to fight against what they perceived as American aggression.

Diversity is a problem here only because UMNO makes it so.


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His father converted the English medium schools into the national system when he was the Education Minister.The reasons given were unity ,urban rural polarisation and other nonsensical excuses.
Now ,the son wants to convert the vernacular schools into the national system when he is going for UMNO Youth Presidency.The reasons given are unity ,racial polarisation and blah blah....
Hello ,Mukhriz,please leave vernacular schools alone.Your father has done enough damages to the Malaysian education system.

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Chua Soi Lek was hauled up by the Police(UMNO's intructions?), but Mukhriz will never be pulled up for questioning by anybody. Apartheid rules in Malaysia.

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