Storm over vernacular school statement
The Umno Youth chief candidate Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir’s suggested that the vernacular school system contributed to racial polarisation and should be scrapped.
As expected, the opposition party leaders leapt up to attack him and our deputy prime minister tried to calm things down. Some opposition leaders want him to be detained under the seditious act, and the evergreen Lim Kit Siang brought out several similar cases in the past where people who commented similar things were found guilty under the seditious act.
HELLO....last time when the opposition spoke out on certain issues and kena detained by ISA, does that mean everyone who speaks out against the same issue should be detained by ISA???
The whole point of progress is the abolishment of ineffective policies with better policies!!! What the hell, the politicians are making all the noise for the SAKE OF MAKING NOISE!!! Didn't the opposition use to say that without the questioning of the status quo, there will never be progress??
It turned out the opposition is not any different from the current government after all.
Haih...
Oh and ppl from the MCA, MIC also, as expected, made noise...what to do, last election so lousy already..must defend themselves....so this was what MIC youth chief sai. He said Mukhriz did not understand the significance of vernacular schools to their respective communities, adding that children not only learn to read, write and speak their language, but also learn the cultures, traditions and the heritages of their race. Walau, if we have truly national schools, we can learn the cultures, traditions and heritages of our race as well as other races. Isn't that the whole freaking point???
And the statement Mukhriz made with regards to the vernacular school system is not made without much thought(unlike the Bukit Bendera UMNO person who asked the "immigrants" to return to their homelands). The arguments were totally sound. And yes I agree with what he had to say. There will never be TRUE UNITY unless all MALAYSIANS go through the SAME education system. This argument doesn't just apply to vernacular schools btw, it also applies to secondary school and MARA, as well as STPM and Matriculation..
As expected, the opposition party leaders leapt up to attack him and our deputy prime minister tried to calm things down. Some opposition leaders want him to be detained under the seditious act, and the evergreen Lim Kit Siang brought out several similar cases in the past where people who commented similar things were found guilty under the seditious act.
HELLO....last time when the opposition spoke out on certain issues and kena detained by ISA, does that mean everyone who speaks out against the same issue should be detained by ISA???
The whole point of progress is the abolishment of ineffective policies with better policies!!! What the hell, the politicians are making all the noise for the SAKE OF MAKING NOISE!!! Didn't the opposition use to say that without the questioning of the status quo, there will never be progress??
It turned out the opposition is not any different from the current government after all.
Haih...
Oh and ppl from the MCA, MIC also, as expected, made noise...what to do, last election so lousy already..must defend themselves....so this was what MIC youth chief sai. He said Mukhriz did not understand the significance of vernacular schools to their respective communities, adding that children not only learn to read, write and speak their language, but also learn the cultures, traditions and the heritages of their race. Walau, if we have truly national schools, we can learn the cultures, traditions and heritages of our race as well as other races. Isn't that the whole freaking point???
And the statement Mukhriz made with regards to the vernacular school system is not made without much thought(unlike the Bukit Bendera UMNO person who asked the "immigrants" to return to their homelands). The arguments were totally sound. And yes I agree with what he had to say. There will never be TRUE UNITY unless all MALAYSIANS go through the SAME education system. This argument doesn't just apply to vernacular schools btw, it also applies to secondary school and MARA, as well as STPM and Matriculation..
posted by Li Hong at 10:42 PM
5 Comments:
Agree with Mukhriz.
Of course National Schools have it's weaknesses.
But for the sake of unity and Intergration, why not. Having all Malay, Chinese & Indian teachers & administrators in the same school will reduce all Islamisations of national schools and perhaps spur competition.
If Singaporeans can go to the same school, why can't we?
Do read my take on this.
http://balankumarpremakumaran.blogspot.com/
very few ( note : rarely) of my chinese friends agree with the idea of unified national school. well, looking at current context, instead of unity, understanding of other culture and fair system, what we will get is education system that dominated by malays values, biased against the other minorities culture. the things we are looking for is fairness.
sg system cant work in msia eh
The reason why Michelle thinks the way she does (and she's not exactly unjustified in so thinking) is because of racial polarisation, prejudice and mistrust. The irony. Sorta like a chicken-egg issue here: you need a unified school to cure racial polarisation, yet you need to fix racial polarisation to make unified schools work.
Then again, there might be alternatives, it's just not coming to me now
The problem with politicians is that they have so much power without too much thought. -.-;;
Racial issues will always be a problem in Malaysia as long as no sides want to root for the opposite side. We will always remain on our own side. That's how the world works. XD
My alternative: Let's do away with the politicians... after all they are the ones who fire up the crowd with their racial propaganda...
(P.S. Thankfully, not *all* politicians are like that, though that's hugely an assumption in essence, since I gave up on the political scene in Malaysia a looooooooooooooooooooooooo
00000000000000000000000000
oooooooooooooooooooooooong
time ago.)
Ironically though, I liked my national primary school very much. It was truly integrated, thanks to my dear friends (...most of which are most likely "polarized" by maturity and their social environment by now.)
The only thing I felt I lacked from my experience was that I struggle with the inconvenience of not knowing my own "mother" tongue now. It's a huge inconvenience, but it's the price I paid for enjoying racial integration, but -hey! I truly enjoyed it.
Why can't all primary schools have been like mine, I wonder sometimes... ahh, wishful thinking. *shrugs*
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