Why did 80,000 Malaysians cheer and support a foreign team that gives them "nothing" back except the temporary excitement and joy of watching ?
Because no Malaysian team can! Malaysia tak boleh?
So if even in play and fun we, Malaysians can accept a foreign element, why can’t it be in EDUCATION which is so much more important to our children’s future?
Why is it so difficult to accept that if Bahasa Melayu cannot give a future in the job market, then PPSMI is the way to go?
Why can’t the nationalists scream and swear at the Manchester United fans since they are destroying the Malay culture with the ‘red horns’ on their heads whilst parents are just trying to put a decent square mortarboard on our children's heads?
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An excellent point indeed.
an act of those nationalists are of TYPICAL Malaysian. all they know is talk talk talk... endless talking but can hardly react positively. NO ACTION TALK ONLY (NATO).
so guys, let us be watchdog. have a check on them if they walk the talk.
i foresee;
translation of english to malay will be out sourced while they feast 8 hrs in the office.
sigh
Its a good start. I definitely want my children to be proficient in English. Maths and Science must be taught in English. Parents should be given an option to send their schools to vernacular schools or English medium schools. A compromise solution is the best solution.
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Silly!Silly!Silly!
Stupid!Stupid!Stupid!
Just ask those politicians who have put forward the revert to study maths and science in BM(secondary school) and see how many of them find interesting. Damn, these people have studied maths and science in Eng during 70s,so they will not be affected and their children mostly study in international schools or oversea.But what about the majority of us whose children are undergoing the national education system?The revert has totally taken away the faith of many parents on the national education system if there was any left.
Why shouln't our children get immediate and 1st hand information on maths and science by teaching them in eng.Why need to take big trouble to translate 1st hand information to 2nd hand when they should put the resources on training more teachers to be able to teach maths and science in eng.Too heart-breaking to mention the fact why the govrnment need to retrain our local graduates and teachers,our education system histroy can tell the answer.In 1975,all subjects in govt schools(secondary) other than eng had been changed to BM.Till today, i still view myself as very lucky enough to be able to study maths and science in eng(2 years earlier before the change).In fact, i am from sjkc but i am still able to converse quite well and did quite well in my eng paper,even my bahasa paper, i also have got strong credit.The purpose of bringing out this point is that one can have a better command
on a language if they use it more frequently. i can use both BM and Eng fairly well bec i studied maths and science in Eng but geography and histroy in BM.We already have too many subjects in BM in our curriculum,that's why we had been producing BM speaking graduates and teachers for the past twenty years and at the end they need to be retrained in eng to be marketable. Why not they be trained right from secondary to save cost and man-power and at the same time producing more competitive youths.If only maths and science,even better still commercial subjects had not been changed to BM in 1975,it would have been a totally different scenario.WHY our politicians do not have the mentality to see the impact for the past twenty years and want to repeat the same mistake again.WHY they deter our children to be more competent in the world job market.Where's their mentality????
What's more ridiculous suggestion to come? Teaching computer in BM,Ha!Ha!Ha! Their effort on upgrading the eng standard in school will end up in vain if 90% of the subjects are taught in BM.
If they can hire foreigners to teach Eng ,why can't do the same for maths and science?
We parents really really have to pray hard and work hard to make them change their mind.But will that time come? Must we wait till the next general election to make them listen? What a nightmare!!!!
It sounds like Page is on the lost side.
Dear Datin
Unfortunately, it is not only some Malays is blind to this fact. Our Chinese educationists are the same. They cannot understand that being perfect in Mandarin and terrible in English gets them nowhere in the job market. They cannot understand that meetings, correspondence, etc are conducted in English. They make me so angry.
Give us English schools and I will send my children to English schools, not Chinese or Kebangsaan schools.
Talking to a PhD in Chemistry in a local university, she says: Her students are advised not to refer to books written before 2009 as they have become obsolete; and 2 citations continue to be written in English because no one wants to read those in Bahasa Melayu (even though they are paid RM300 more for BM)!
Call for pupils to learn Mandarin
The report says Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic are languages of the future Pupils should be taught other languages such as Mandarin in school, a report for the British Council says.
The current dominance of the English language poses "serious" economic and political disadvantages for the UK, the study claims.
UK graduates who speak only English will lose out to multi-lingual workers from other countries, the council says.
The warning comes as pupils in England are no longer required to study a language beyond the age of 14.
From September 2004 the compulsion for all secondary school pupils to study a modern language up to GCSE or the equivalent level was removed.
The UK's best defence against the threat of the spread of English is ... to learn other languages.
But, in December last year, the government went some way to quell the concerns of critics.
Schools minister Jacqui Smith said, from September 2006, schools must ensure at least half of their pupils study a foreign language until they are 16.
Ethnic minority groups' input
Now the British Council, which promotes international education and cultural relations, is calling for urgent action to teach other languages.
"The UK's best defence against the threat of the spread of English is, in fact, to learn other languages," said author of the report - English Next - David Graddol.
"We have to think carefully about which languages those are," said Mr Graddol.
"French for example is declining as an international language, but Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic are all languages of the future.
"Ethnic minority groups in the UK may well prove to be a major asset in this effort."
Popularity of English
The report estimates that two billion people will soon be speaking or learning English - for example, nearly 60% of primary school children now learn English in China.
"In the new, rapidly emerging climate, native speakers may increasingly be identified as part of the problem rather than the source of a solution," the report said.
"They may be seen as bringing with them cultural baggage in which learners wanting to use English primarily as an international language are not interested.
"Native speaker accents may seem too remote from the people that learners expect to communicate with." - BBC NEWS
Dear Datin,
Firstly, I would like to thank you for your tremendous effort in trying to convince our government to support PPSMI. Unfortunately,in my humble opinion, I think these decisions are all purely based on politics. PKR and PAS want to revert to BM. So the easiest way for UMNO to gain ground is also to revert to BM to gain Malay votes and do the 1 Malaysia hooha to gain votes from non-malays.
Perhaps it would be better for pagemalaysia to gain support from the Malays by trying to convince them that they need English to compete in the future and actually it will be the rural Malays who will lose out if they don't support PPSMI. After all most of our children here can already speak good English since we speak English at home. And urban folks get plenty of support in the form of tuition centres. Perhaps it would be good to start by translating articles from M.Bakri Musa and the likes of him to BM and distributing it over the internet. More convincing.There is really no point for all the Chinese and Indians writing in to support PPSMI. We need Malay support. Like it or not our country is still very much based on race and politics. Thank you for listening to my rant!
That would be the ideal situation. Unfortunately, most Malay families lack the foresight to envision that education can change one's lifestyle for the better. Either that or some political party just wants to divide and rule! We keep trying.
I would prefer my Iban friends learn mathematics and science in Iban language, my Dusun friends learn mathematics and science in Dusun language, my Punjabi friends learn mathematics and science in Punjabi language and my Temuan friends learn mathematics and science in Temuan language. At the same time, they are multilingual, at least in Mandarin, English, and French or Spanish. This diversity makes us stronger.
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