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Why should UMNO/BN crooks care if it serves their political interest, this is their SOP and rakyat are just their political sacrificial lambs? Those who contributed to the surge in popularity of our PM's first 100 days are just being naive and outright stupid.

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here here!

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Why can't we have some intelligent people to govern this country? Simple rational of making sure that policy is in place to allow the current patch of students follow through the english for science and maths program so that they don't have to do the flip-flop is not difficult at all. But those damn politicians and stupid government heads are so brainless to just do such simple thing are leave the ordinary people to suffer in agony for their high and mighty stupidity!

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There seem to be no wisdom and courage in our current leaders. Most of them have this phobia of losing their identity as a Malay and Muslim. As they would like to say: ' Bahasa Jiwa Bangsa' or 'Language is the soul of a Race'?
There is no problem in teaching science and mathematics in any language provided -
1) The teachers are well qualified and well trained.
2) The translations are up to date and accurate.
3) The students are strong in the language being taught.
The problem is that the teachers are not qualified and well trained and the students are weak in both the langauges. One of the way is to train teachers with good academic results and not just any Dick Tom and Harry. Meritocracy should be practiced in all sectors for the nations to advance. Different races have their own abilities, so let the best choose their choice of vocation.
It all boils down to unfair and foolish practices of the present government policies.
Time to change either the policies OR the government.

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I have been so led to think along the narrow path dictated by the government, that I have forgotten this english medium option.
Yes, why not indeed?

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If the government does not do the flip flop then everything will be ok. Since the government is so undecided and the country itself is not one the best thing to do is to have English, Malay, Indian and Chinese medium schools where Malay and art subjects are taught in Malay and the rest are taught is the medium of that school. There should also be more private schools to make the fees of the private schools more affordable. This is what is best for Malaysian education when we are Not 1 Malaysia

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It all boils down to politics. For instance there was no need to change English to Malay as the medium of instruction in those English schools that existed decades before 1970. The riots of 1969 could not be traced to issues relating to language. It could not even be traced to race linking to economic function. But the UMNO leaders of the time found it proper to infuse emotion as a cause of the riots. Hence, the NEP which catered for economic issues, and Malay as medium of instruction and language served the foundation of Ketuanan Melayu. NEP has been utilised over the past 38 years to enrich people linked to UMNO bosses, to send non-Malays tax-payers on emigration, and to control the minds of educated Malays that they should be eternally grateful to Razak and Mahathir, and that they should not be ungrateful which was the catch word of Mahathir that Malays forgets easily.

When language becomes the foundation of Ketuanan Melayu, it becomes emotional subject. It was not a correct technical solution to improve the command of English through learning mathematics and science in English. It is killing teachers and students alike in primary school to teach the two subjects in English. The 86,000 votes cast on Mahathir’s blog say only that the parents do not want to change, however stupid the system is. It is the boiling flogs syndrome, and people care only about their current situation. It is certainly bad to switch from English to Malay in secondary schools and back to English in the universities.

If Mahathir’s argument that English plays the vital role in communicating and learning, then it should be used as a medium of all subjects in the universities. English text should be used, and the lecturers can choose to speak in what they are most comfortable with. It is better to learn more about what the lecturers would be able to impart, in his language, rather than what he was able to tell in English. Clearly the students are not expected to learn English language from all the learning subjects. The need to know the terms used and the reasoning involved in the subject.

UMNO leaders are lazy to move with time in governing. They stick to the known divide-and-rule formula for which they have to cater to the emotions of their power brokers, after having moulded them to take those to heart. What goes around comes around.

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