Oops they did it again! Last time they are busy trying to change the teaching of Science and Math subjects to English. Now they want to change it back again to Malay. STOP MAKING THE STUDENTS YOUR GUINEA PIG!
Why didn't anybody came up with all the African country failures theory years ago when the education minister wants to change the language. Why now? When you already ruined half of the students lives.
Personally I don't blame the language. I blame it on the way they teach the subject. Mathematics for example, its not something you use to teach how to build a correct English sentence with the correct grammar. That is what English subject is for.
Mathematics is a universal language based on a set of symbol and system. You can end up in Alaska but still know how count 65 + 5975 because you knew the symbol and the system on how to add the two. You don't need to understand Eskimo to know that.But if you browse through the primary Mathematics text book today. Heck even I'm confused. In short it looks like a drag queen, English trying to fancy himself as Mathematics.
Subjects like Mathematics and Science is a subject based on concept. In order to understand it, you need to understand the concept. The best way to do it is by using the language that the students understands and stop making it so darn confusing. Remember my brother's guppy fish example.
Okay now they are talking about changing the subject back to Malay, I just hope they don't try to wipe clean the whole mess and start new. For some students like my youngest brother who started the whole English for Math and Science since standard one, and had been in the system for five years, changing it back will only make him confused.
The best way to do it right now is to start from standard 1 and continue from there and don't try to jump the gun and change the form 1 or form 4 sylibus just because it shortens the amounts of time for your experiment. You can wait 11 years for that. For students who are already in the mumble jumble confusing system...maybe you can try to offer them option whether they can continue in English and revert back to Malay.
Yes it might cost more...but that is the price you need to pay for being a weak hearted moron in the first place. Your are not the one facing a bleak future because the education minister can't seem to make up their mind.
And since they've been complaining about the gap between urban and non-urban students, don't you think that it is time they try to come out with different approach, different text book or different sylibus for the non-urban so they can compete with the urban students who can afford to buy 6 reference books and attend tuition classes everyday.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe-H.G Wells
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