I am sure u guys have heard about the changing of teaching of Science and Maths from English to bahasa Melayu. OK, so what do i think of it?
PURE
UTTER
BULL
What i think of the government, so sue me.
Now on to the serious business, Why the decision to change Eng. To BM? What catastrophic event could have comprehended such sudden change of the education policy? Some people might say,
"Aiya, Why are you so worried about this? You are already in college!"
People who ask this question are heartless and have totally no clue. Some of us have brothers/sisters who are going to be directly affected by this. My dear brothers, Daniel Ooi and Sean Ooi, Standard 6 and 2 respectively, will be affected by this decision. They are suppose to learn the current stuff in english, and Daniel will learn Bio/chem/physics in BM in 2013.
I am more deeply saddened because our future generation will be "malayanised" with this decision. The world now is a global world, not confined to our ownselves. Do u see Bahasa Malaysia ( in respect to the language, frankly, I think BM is a beautiful language), being a global language in the future? The only way that could happen is that malaysia and indonesia combine and take over the world, making the global language Bahasa Melayu.
The government can argue that results have detiorated since they implemented the teaching of Sc. and maths in english. Seriously, what are the statistics based on? 6 years? Thats NOT ENOUGH!!!! Altough city people may have adapted well to this change, Rural area students have suffered because of the change, thus the detioration of the statistics. I am willing to bet, that given the time, they can adapt as well. in a sense, the government thinks that rural area students are "stupid" and "dumb", and they need to give them a hand and lead them like little children across the street. Nobody likes to think that they are dumb, so give them a chance to adapt to the English language.
Ok, this might hurt some people, but seeing the level of English of some of my friends is just sad. You might have scored so many A's yet your oral English is not good, when you go out to the real world, do you really think private sector companies look at your results? NO. My father, whom i look up to, interview such people and he is very disappointed at the level of English of some students. In a job interview, he picked a degree holder from a local uni over a degree holder who comes from, ( apparently, our top university?) university Malaya (UM) because of one reason, and that is, his/her command of ENGLISH.
This is why i look up to my English teachers in my previous school, MBSSKL (Methodist Boy's Secondary School Kuala Lumpur), who strive to improve the level of English of all MBSians. (Dear Mr's Ramani, hope you are reading this). The teaching of Literature in English, ( not the easy literature component tought in the English subject), have improved our level of English. Most MBSians come out of school with a high level of English,and this, I am proud of my school. I am sure MBS will fight this decision. And you would be surprised with the level of English of the science/bio/chem/physics teacher in my school, most of them have Perfect English.
Today, I went for a HK university talk. The speaker emphasized the importance of English, Especially UK universities, which you must an A for English, no more, no less. i bet this is the same for some aussie universities as well.
There are some fellow classmates in college who loath the 10% internal assessment for ESL, which is LITERATURE, saying that " I hate literature", or " Why la literature~~ So hard". Face it man, its 10%, either take it or leave it. With the attitude of hating English, how can you improve on English? Do you improve on something by hating it? I know i cant say it myself. You might say
" AIya your results not good also, fail physics and spec.maths"
" aiya your SPM only 5 A's, cant compare with me 8 A's, 9 A's +++"
Of course, i try my best, but not being good in the subject dos not neccesary mean i do not like it. i love maths and physics. but, i just did not work hard for it. Its the same for English.
And so, The reversion of the medium of language in teaching Sc. and Maths is just unfounded. It will only make our current generation of students suffer.
"Politicians should send their children to National schools and see thier own children suffer"
Anonymous
" How about we teaching English in BM since we are so keen in teaching everything in BM?"
Anonymous
In fact, why don't you go to Tun Dr Mahatir's blog and see for yourself the comments made by other Malaysians? I bet it would make good reading.
Mahatir's blog : comments about the revertion
Here i post one comment, made by Bombardier
I am flabbergasted at the recent government decision to change our schools Mathematics and Science syllabus back to Bahasa Malaysia. I find it rather stupid for them to do so. Personally, I've got 2 kids in school and to see their English result improved significantly ever since the implementation of Maths & Science in English is simply breathtaking.
Simply put, those who are opposing to these subjects being taught in English only has 3 reasons behind it.
1) They themselves are not capable to comprehend English.
2) Ass kissers.
3) They just fear the Malays may one day be at par with other races.
And those who agree to the change under the pretext of being patriotic please take your bull elsewhere. Patriotism just doesn’t exist anymore. If it does, then we won't be having so much trouble with money politics, social issues and what not.
Anyone who agrees to the government's stupid decision, please, take this one challenge... Walk into any computer store and ask for "Pemacu Cakera Keras Luaran" and see if the store hand can understand what then heck you're asking for. Should you see them scratching their head for it, tell them it's an "External Hard Drive" and compare the difference yourself.
We can change everything into Bahasa Malaysia, but one thing remains a fact... No one gives jack about it. As ayahanda Tun has clearly elaborated, we've got nothing for anyone else to find it important enough to learn our language. English is the business language. Deal with it.
P/s: Since we're so eager to change everything to Bahasa, perhaps we should consider the teaching of English in Bahasa eh Tun?? BombardierThats my long view on the reversion, comments much welcomed on my c.box or on this post =D
A banana and proud of it,
Matt
