The Malaysian Education System is a Crap
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November
The Malaysian education system is a crap. Alright, maybe not, looking at the fact that the system is actually dripping every drop of grey-matter-juice out of your cerebral cortex. From primary schools onward to the tertiary level, we’ve all been taught to memorize and only by memorizing will you score Aces. Crap.
Malaysians need to promote critical thinking and analytic skills as a way to improve creativity. Only if the education system is revised and improved could we spur new generations of creative minds - the country’s missing link to originality. Maybe then we could see a far better and original product created or invented by Malaysians, instead of using Mitsubishi’s abandoned Lancer cynotypes to create their own national Hero (Proton Wira), sort of like picking up other people’s shit and treat it as “my prescious” in our own backyard. Crap.
Malaysia’s Proton Wira is actually derived from the Japanese’s Mitsubishi Lancer. So for those of you who doesn’t have the budget for a true Lancer, you can go for a mocked-up Proton Wira which actually bears a striking resemblence to the actual Lancer itself.
Below are the list of derivation of Proton cars from the the Mitubishi’s:
Proton Putra - Mitsubishi Mirage Asti
Proton Wira - Mitsubishi Lancer
Proton Satria GTi - Mitsubishi Colt
Proton Perdana - Mitsubishi Eterna
Anyway, it’s not about car this post. Back to my secondary school years, I was taught the English subject (1119) by Mr. Wee during my SPM years in Sacred Heart Seconday School, Sibu. His students were taught to memorize essays. Claimed to be the most effective way to score A in the essay paper, we were asked to memorize as many essays as we could and he would carry out weekly tests on essay writing based on the questions he’ll provide 2-3 days prior to the test. Crap.
I’m a bad student, I never listen to the teachers. I would only stick to what I believe is right at that time. I can see that the effort put into scoring A as being a good intention there, but by simply memorizing the facts and phrases, and then puke them out in exactly the same shit by words, by commas and fullstops are simply, Crap.
I scored 5A’s out of 6 in my UPSR, 6A’s out of 8 for my PMR, and 3A’s out of 11 subjects in my SPMs. See the decline in Aces there? Starting from Form 3 onwards, I’ve pulled myself out of the “Memorisation legion” and started to promote critical thinking and analytic skillz. *cough* nice excuse for watching too much football and neglected studies *cough*
The Memorisation legion, as I would like to call it, is a group of students who’re loyal to the Malaysian way of education. The legion is usually led by groups of teachers or lecturers, followed by hundreds or even thousands of loyal students. Their daily biblical feeds would be the “Skor A Dalam SPM” type of books.
In the legion, the teachers will keep the students loyal and happy by revealing gossips circling in the examination department. As a teacher, they don’t wanna get into much troubles, they don’t directly tell you what are the questions (not to mention that there are some who actually does though), they trim the books into specific chapters where the questions are targetted. Ecstatic students will bookmark them in no time and go home a happy lad. They would then get down to discuss and “spot” objective questions that will come out later in the test. It’s like picking numbers for a lotto bet, and if all the questions they spot comes out on the paper, they score a jackpot! Crap.
They even have a library of “Score A” exercise books, and sample questions from previous PMR/SPM examinations, sourced from the legion’s publishers, such as Pelangi Books for example.
The legion’s bibles - written by passionate followers abiding the sacred laws of the Malaysian education system, and also the so-called prophets who can predict what is to come in the coming exam papers. Crap.
So you wanna score A huh? Easy lar, just finish all the SPM questions papers from year 1995 to 2005. Sure 90% question all come out same one. If not, just tembak lah! My tee-cher ask me if want tembak, tembak all answer (B), because hor, the statistic shows us most of the answers are in (B). Crap.
This is what most of us do everyday during our secondary years…
- Get up and 6am. Take our breakfast (Usually misses it). Go to school.
- If it’s early, we catch up with friends. Talk about soccer matches yesterday. Crap. Chelsea lost 1-0 to MU yesterday night. MU lucky only lah. Yeah right you losers.
- The teacher comes, we rush into the class. Greets the teacher.
- Take out our books and turn to page 69 and listen to boring lectures.
- Eagerly waits for the first break.
- Happy Hour Starts. Talk crap.
- Boring lectures continues…
- Eagerly waits for the second break.
- Happy Hour Take Two. Talk crap again.
- Boring lectures resumes…
- Eagerly waits for the 12:35pm “Go Home” bell.
- The bell rings. We go home.
Sit in the class for 5 and a half hours then get our asses back home for lunch. That’s our daily routine.
Crap.
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1. WTJ | November 10th, 2005 at 12:59 am
well say
2. Living Gem - Welome to Bolehland | November 10th, 2005 at 1:04 am
Tuition Syndrome?
I wouldn’t say that tuition is bad for you. I attended tuition myself, and I’m not sure what would’ve happened if I didn’t. It is indeed true that sometimes schools can’t cover the whole syllabus, so a little bit of off-school learning is needed h…
3. She's Jess | November 10th, 2005 at 1:19 am
crap or not.. we left with no choice ey.. this is the only education system that Malaysia has..
unless the minister decided to do something about it.. but i doubt so
4. narrowband | November 10th, 2005 at 1:32 am
I concur, man. Every bit.
Memorizing is crap. Moral studies is crap. I was asked to memorize essays too, which I did. I’m not sure if the outcome would had been the same if I didn’t. But this method is clearly meant for merely aceing the subject. Once the exam’s over, mission accomplished. Give everything back to the teacher.
5. ali allah ditta | November 10th, 2005 at 2:39 am
U said,”I scored 5A’s out of 6 in my UPSR, 6A’s out of 8 for my PMR, and 3A’s out of 11 subjects in my SPMs. See the decline in Aces there?”
That doesnt proof that the system is at fault?
6. HBK | November 10th, 2005 at 6:48 am
should have compared results with someone who is from a country where the educational system encourages critical thinking n stuff….
But as I’ve guessed, we (from memorization sys) fares well in Uni here, they (critical thinking sys) are just more outspoken but results are not as good as us.
However, at work place, because they are outspoken, they easily get higher post or promotion than us. We have to work double hard to achieve what they did.
There’re pros n cons to our education sys. I don’t see we being the losers out of this. I believe that critical thinking can be cultivated by urself, don’t need a system to make u to. It’s just depending on the individual.
p/s: if wanna be more critical, read more, discuss more…..dun just sit there n nod ur head even if u dun understand
7. Wuching | November 10th, 2005 at 11:09 am
hey, u from sacred heart ke? me too lah..so i’m ur SENIOR! hahaha
8. admin | November 10th, 2005 at 11:05 pm
ali allah ditta: No it doesn’t. But just that my way of learning has changed.
Wuching: I knew you were my senior since I first read your blog. Somehow, you mentioned that you were of ex-SHS students.
HBK: The edu department should promote active involvement of lessons in the class. Rather than giving boring lectures, like Teacher Pukes Student Eat scenario. Other than that, I agree with you, read and discuss more.
She’s Jess: I hope they can do something about the complaints and suggestions.
WTJ: Indeed
9. suituapui | November 11th, 2005 at 8:47 pm
Obviously, the crap. as u call it, has put u where u are today! Pretty clear that it has failed in ‘educating’ u considering that u don’t seem to have any sense of gratitude…nor loyalty to your country! Good luck to u!
10. lingfu | November 12th, 2005 at 9:02 am
Am sure ur 3As in SPM does not include Cambridge 1119. If ur English is crap when u get to Form 5, despite having studied the language for 11 years or so, the only desperate measure is to beat the system - memorise. Sadly, ours is a society where people measure u by the number of As u can get and 3As is, I must say, a miserable number! A dime a dozen!
11. wong | November 13th, 2005 at 2:36 am
Stop using Wira or Proton to compare with Mitsubishi lah… So many people talking about it, but no one go and do research one le? Proton has been partnership with Mitsubishi for a long times, they could have the right to do like this what? I don’t think there is wrong on it
About past year paper… It is telling you, which kind of question will they come out, didn’t mean you will sure score A with it bah… By the way, each teacher has their own teaching style, you don’t like do’t like lor… A teacher isn’t equal to the whole Malaysia education eh?
12. Alex | November 14th, 2005 at 12:08 am
Lol, no wonder sibu so many wira becomes lancer wannabes.
oooh arthur wee… my english tuition teacher. he ok gy lar.. haha quite funny.
13. admin | November 14th, 2005 at 4:38 pm
lingfu: Sorry dude, I’ve got Aces for both local and Cambridge 1119s. It’s the other subjects that I’m pointing at. History, Chinese Language (all those idioms and structures bla bla bla, do we really need those?), etc.
suituapui: well, Malaysia is a very nice country I have to say, and no doubt I love it. But not deep enough to shut my mouth at something that is obviously not working well, as agreed by the masses, not just me myself. It’s the freedom of speech we’re talking about, and no, Malaysia doesn’t really support the freedom of speech. That’s why, if there’s anything wrong, we just keep our mouth shut. Everyone’s having the “who cares” attitude. You might say, even if they improve the system, we might not be able to experience nor enjoy it anyway. So, who cares?!
wong: everyone knows mitsubishi and proton’s partnership. but it’s just an example, no need to be pissed off by the fact. Also, I need to point out that this post is about the Malaysian education, not on a particular teacher.
Alex: Yeah, some of them are so well modded that they look like real Lancers. =.=”
14. Kids Nowadays - Alex Allied | November 18th, 2005 at 2:16 am
[…] Do kids nowadays have anything to worry about other than study hard and score Aces? I mean, everything is prepared and ready for them from the minute they were borned, and all they have to do it follow the path their parents had set for them. Kids nowadays are so in a different league of their own, man! […]
15. Sei | November 29th, 2005 at 4:59 am
Hey, I’m writing a paper on this. How American students complain too much, when really they are the l-u-c-k-y ones; how the school system in M’sia is crap compared to American school system. The tests, public punishments, lack of student rights, memorization, and how teaching means reading out of a textbook..these are all th wrong ways of teaching.
I totally agree.
16. hafez | December 1st, 2005 at 6:06 pm
Wira is not derived from Mitsubishi Lancer. Lancer and Wira is actually a joint project by Proton & Mitsubishi in an effort to cut cost.They share parts, but different designs for front and rear. Proton staffs spent 2 years in Japan for this project.It was really hard working with the Japs because they like to steal our ideas. They actually had their soft tooling mould ready for their Lancer’s dashboard.But when they see the design of Wira’s dashboard, they abandoned their original design and took our design!That’s why they’re similar!Nobody said nothing when Ford Laser and Mazda 323 is basically the same car, but when we Malaysians do it, many people are quick to criticize….perhaps because they had crappy education.
17. admin | December 2nd, 2005 at 12:11 pm
hafez: Thanks for clearing the air here. Any chance if I could get my hand on history between M’sia and Japs working on those Proton cars?
18. hafez | December 2nd, 2005 at 2:56 pm
You could get it through unofficial channel, such as through those who went there themselves.But they’re quite secretive about many things, especially their current project.Perhaps because they’re bound by certain contracts.Those who went to Japan were mainly from design and engineering. The number was less than hundred. Not all of them are still at Proton, because some have left for other car companies all around the world.The proposal to Mitsubishi for the setting up of Proton was done earlier, but only during Dr. M’s tenure that it was accepted,hence the birth of Saga. Things started to turn sour with Mitsubishi when Proton started it’s own R & D (circa before Iswara).That’s why Proton used British consultancy firm for Iswara’s design because it didn’t have enough staff then.Waja was the first model to be fully designed by Malaysians, but for engineering, consultants, mainly from the US and Europe were hired. It was really an eye opener, because they saw that we were on par with them. Gen 2 was also fully designed by Malaysians with only little help from foreign consultants, as at that time Proton already have sufficient staffs in this department. Gen 2 was the first car to use Proton’s own engine. Not many people know this, but Proton also makes parts for other cars, a luxury brand included.Considering that we’ve only been making cars for 20 years, we’re not really that bad compared to the Japs (80 years) and the Koreans (40 years) since we’ve already got our own engine. If anyone read Toyota’s history, their car in the beginning couldn’t climb a hill and went reverse, but nobody criticize, and amazingly they bought the car! If any of you had any relatives or friends in US during the 80’s, just ask them how bad Korean cars were in those days.The early Proton Saga was thousand folds better than Hyundai did when it was 20 years old.
19. Alex | December 3rd, 2005 at 2:03 pm
hafez: Wow! I could make an article out of this comment man! But hey, thanks for the effort. In the early days, Japanese products were so bad that if your children gets sick back then, people would say that your kids are “Made in Japan”, synonymous of their quality.
But we can’t compare the years between Proton and Japs or Korean cars due to the initial ,technological advancement. Cars were still in their early stages of R&D back then. The late starters had the edge of the readily-available resources and knowledge. So, comparison here is nulled.
Nonetheless, I’m proud that Proton are designing their own cars right now, not 100%, but they’re closing in.
20. adeline | December 6th, 2005 at 11:55 pm
About your crap, well,that’s why we have moral studies so that the smart alecs would one day be THANKFUL to their ’si-fu’ eventhough he/she might be teaching you ‘crap’.
By the way, if I were your teacher, which I’m not, I’d be smiling ‘coz even though I taught you ‘crap’, you end up so creative and analytical.
A pat on the back of your teachers, don’t u think?
21. Alex | December 7th, 2005 at 1:23 am
adeline: As critical as I should be, not all teachers are bad though, I’ve met some really cool teachers who defied the standards and applied their own to nurture young creative minds. I respect all teachers who job is to develop and educate us, but not the system that’s deteriorating creative minds.
22. adeline | December 8th, 2005 at 1:21 am
Can you find another system that works in Malaysia? It’s like exam is not the only way of testing. So far, it’s the most effective. Creativity can be nurtured but not learnt. How do you measure creativity?
Creativity is in the syllabus. It’s just that teachers don’t swear by it. It’s safer to let the kids pass. I’m sure parents wouldn’t want a totally creative child who didn’t pass a single exam. Society’s expectation makes the teachers condone it. Guess Sibu folks are kiasu too, right?
23. Alex | December 8th, 2005 at 1:53 am
adeline: I can see the initiative of improvements there. But the initiatives taken so far, take an example, the introduction of literature component in language subjects, e.g. Si Tenggang’s home coming, The Lotus Eater, etc. To me, that was crap.
The teachers had to adopt the new component without any adequate prior training, and the whole thing was rushed from the ministry of education into the class without advanced planning. I remembered the scene back then when the teachers complained how bad the idea was. And then, we’ve to memorize the poem line-by-line and also their meaning? That was the so-called “creativity” in the syllabus?
Creative students are not necessarily those who didn’t pass a single exam. Thing is, I’m against “memorizing” as a way to get Aces in exams. What’s the point of you getting Aces memorizing?
My point is, rather than having an exam-oriented system, you could have a system that promotes interactivity and collaboration, where students are encouraged to explore, swap ideas, and produce projects with their creative minds.
24. adeline | December 8th, 2005 at 11:17 am
Literature is not crap. It’s just that memorizing might not be the only way for you but it works( meaning they passed the exam) for the majority. Learning by discovery is actually better but would you want to wait. Everything is instant nowadays. this is the shortcut. Probably it left a bitter taste in you but most forget it once they hold their aces. Your point - is there, kerja kursus, and all. We’re moving there but still the teachers might just ask the students to memorize the points - well the one who produces the aces, gets the cake. SO, the cycle goes on.
I do sympathize with those who cannot memorize… most even equate it with studying. Some of them cannot recall information. It just helps to recall information. How you use the info is what you’re advocating.
25. Alex | December 8th, 2005 at 8:47 pm
adeline: Learning by discovery is the word.
Well, quite frankly the ‘cycle’ you mentioned must be broken somewhere, somehow. And better it be earlier than later cause it concerns the future of the nation.
Otherwise, you got yourself a quite acceptable point there.
26. adeline | December 10th, 2005 at 1:36 pm
Perhaps you might be interested to make a difference by being in the education business. Might be impossible to do great things yet but small things in great ways.
Initially, thought you were one of those legendary ‘Si Tenggang’ not the poem itself. My apology. Be critical like Si Tenggang from the poem. You really didn’t learn anything from the poems? I thought ‘Looking for a rain God’ is pretty sad - victims of consequences. The teaching styles might not suit you but really literature is not crap.
27. Alex | December 11th, 2005 at 12:57 am
adeline: Nah, not gonna get myself involved in education business. Not my style
Honestly, I’m not the kind of person who enjoys poetry, so, for me, they’re yet another boring poems.
28. adeline | December 13th, 2005 at 9:59 am
Guess it has not touched your soul. Try reading it with music that you like. The crap of today might not be the crap of tomorrow.
29. arabella | March 13th, 2006 at 11:44 pm
i’m also writing a paper on this topic.but how sad it is to hear from senior and experienced teachers that they think this system is the best..they think that our exam oriented edu sys is the fairest way of evaluating students,which i don’t agree with..
we don’t need book-smart students..we need book-smart as well as street-smart students..and how is malaysia going to produce these students?by changing our current edu sys to a non-exam oriented sys-not depending solely on exams.
wut do u think??
30. wan | August 4th, 2006 at 10:57 am
u r so rite dude! its a crap. no wonders, those high achievers in skewl n uni dun really achieve anything in life. some of them dun even hav work weyh! a parrot also can remember stuff lor!
31. oddrey | August 23rd, 2006 at 12:47 am
hey u know why malaysian education system is a crap?? becouse most of us, including u
(Eagerly waits for the first break.
- Happy Hour Starts. *Talk crap*.
- Boring lectures continues…)
talks crap. the teacher craps about ancient people that were dead and we crap about how the teacher crapped. get what i mean? another example.. i’m talking crap now becouse ur crapping.see?? crap is our life!! crap is what we are!! crap is our budaya!! that is why malaysian edu system is a crap cos it’s made to suite us!! lol…before i take my leave, MALAYSIAN EDU IS CRAP!!
32. Ryuuzen Kai | July 28th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
You have successfully summarized da Malaysian education system perfectly. congrats, omedetonegaishimas, Alex-dono.
33. Alexallied | July 29th, 2007 at 12:39 am
I don’t know man, but it seems the schools are getting worse day by day. Students get beaten up, girls get drenched in pool, bullies, etc. It’s not only the education system that is crumbling, it’s the schools themselves.
34. Rosie | February 10th, 2008 at 2:12 am
Hi. I just come across this site because I been looking for RH Hotel website. Till now I still can not get to it. (Sorry my english is not that good.) Talking about our education crumbling and school system suck. I still do not understand about what is all about actually. There is no perfect school system in this world. If US system are so good why students want to shoot their teacher and classmate? Japan the numro uno in education but there are a lot unreported cases student commit suicide because been bullied by teacher or classmate even parents. So far here in M’sia when a teacher lift a finger to a student by the next day he or she will receive a lawyer letter.( when I was young i never dare to tell mak that cikgu cubit me or mak will double it.)I been and stayed more than a year in Sibu.I meet a lot of people and we exchanged thought. I asked one of them about being a tution teacher at one of wellknown centre. She told me no matter how she try to teach the students to think creatively they always back to square one. Top reason parents not approve their kids think creatively, affraid the will no good result. Most parents want at least 95% mark on every paper. Even on monthly ujian. If the kids get less than that they treaten to switch centre even some of them sending a complaint letter to the centre owner. In my one cent opinion, our society created the system and willingly submitted to that system. As an adult we can change ourselve but its won’t change others. Start with ourselve, our own kids. We can make the different if we want too. So far its only cakap cakap kosong. What are we going to do to make a change?( me decided to end the bloodline with myself.)
35. sonya | March 14th, 2008 at 10:33 am
i agree…i have went to school overseas with a high malaysian qualification but found it really hard to compete with the other kids despite thinking i was very good when it came to the exams in malaysia..in fact..i struggled to study overseas with the qualifications i have achieved in malaysia..absolutely and ridiculously crap alright.
36. nelsond voon | April 2nd, 2008 at 11:30 am
What you’d posted here had been considered as ‘BullS***’! you’re talking this muuuchhhhh things for nothing. And it’s the fact that no one could change unless the minister come back to study at our school from primary to high school, to try out what he had done for malaysia’s student. I’ve been a bad student before either and i’m not like you to just follow and be what they’d want us to be. My UPSR no A, PMR failed 5 subjects, and SPM failed 4. And i just attended to class only half for each year. Now I just be ME, be myself who live happily for my own live but not complaining here and didnt let people know how to find you. .
You who’ve been a good student and had a ‘good result’, please dont complain after you graduated but when you facing all this shits, bacause there’s no point anymore and no one will listen to you. I used to be, I crashed principal’s car when he dont want to listen to my voice! what I could leave here for MES(malaysian education system) is ‘PRINCIPAL S*CKS’!!
37. Nabila | April 28th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
I couldn’t agree more. Malaysian education system is so fucked up!!!! The government sucks. They did nothing to help the kids. Adding more books to carry on my kid’s bag everyday. FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! My kids cannot enjoy schooling anymore. Too hard for them. Pity. Is homeschooling legal here? Have to spend hundrends for their monthly fees (compulsory preparation before primary). FUCK THE MENTERI PELAJARAN!
38. phsycobella | April 29th, 2008 at 11:23 am
hey there, guys..know what??i hv the same prob with alex, cause t-chers keep on feeding me n my frens with stupid infos to memorize so we can score in our test..i got 5A’s in UPSR, 8A’s in PMR!! actually in pmr i did the papers like stupid bull**** but then i score straight As!! i truly admit dat i DON’T DESERVE IT!!!it gives me fake info that im intelligent!!ITS ALL LIES!!!they lower the graph so we get As!! then in Form 4 n 5 i couldn’t catch up coz im not that clever!with fake helps, i got 7As out of ten..then in my college years i couldnt manage nymore wthout ’suap’ from t-chers..my pointer is 2.73 out of 4..plus evry1 hv the mindset that u should score in science stream, then you’re trully ‘pandai’!!come on! stop presurring me…i don’t want the same pressure goes to my future kids..thanks 4 reading..
39. di_an83 | May 26th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
hi guys…yup i do agree with phsycobella.i got 3A’s in UPSR,7A’s in PMR (which i deserve the As because i study like crazy for it!) and only 1 A in SPM!(which was Science paper). But just like you said phsycobella,IT’S ALL LIES! cos i know that i did very,very bad for that paper,and i was and still am surprised I GOT A FOR MY SCIENCE PAPER! CRAP!
from my school study’s experience,yup,we tend to memorize a lot! but when entering university,or college, things are not the same anymore.but of cos there are some theories or facts that we need to memorize but we need to use our “head” to think and apply every knowledge that we know (which include general knowledge that we learned in our everyday life) and “goreng” the facts and knowledge together in order to get an A for your paper. see,memorizing alone cannot promise you an A in your paper.
40. jianh | June 4th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
haha, this was how I went through my whole day at school:
6:30am arrive at school
-go to class and put down bags
-go out and play basketball with friends until bell rings at 7am.
-class starts, body still sweating after play.
-teacher notices and lectures us of don ever play anymore (again…)
-boring class periods, waits for recess at 9:40am.
-recess go play basketball again (rather skip eating and washroom xD).
-recess ends, class again.
-12:40pm class ends, go home.
41. Madness | June 19th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
The system is revamped from the previous HSC to secure a fool-proof academic environment, which is actually a self-aware/access situation. This means that the government is making it easy for everyone, including the not so bright ones a second chance to score at least an above average grade. This practically is enhanced with the introduction of a quota-based-grading and answer-scheme relevance.
To get the ball rolling and to score As, one needs to fit the quota criteria and be willing to commit to a memo stance. The biased quota is such a way that, if you scored 70 which usually awards you a B grade, you’ll get an A grade because the subject paper is ‘touted’ to be quite hard for that very year. What’s more, the quota is being quoted by insiders to be ‘race-specific’. (I am quoting only so don’t need to flame here as i am usually the very last person on Earth to play the race card :P)
Aside from that, one needs to just memorize. But i fear the text-book(full) and teaching(partial) department of the education ministry failed on that part. The exam questions set by the exam syndicate is not on par of what is being drafted out on text-book and continuously taught by most zombie teachers. During my school time, I’m eagerly to finish all the ‘add-water’ and irrelevant homeworks given by the school to be excluded from being a rebellious student..lol
Most of the time, I attend tuition classes which only review past-year exam papers and used only the real deal materials from those reputable publishers. The tutor themselves must be passionate and willing to provide tips to tackle each specific types of questions. Why and for what reason? The reason is clear-cut because as mentioned, the only way for us to score is that our answers during the exam is the same with the answer scheme marked by zombies again =.= No matter how good your facts are coupled with mentions from scientific journals or international texts, you won’t get the marked for it as the zombies are doing a process called skimming..lol
So, to make do with, eating crumbs and churn them out over and over again equals to a photocopy machine, but a GREAT SCORER because they know how to play the game well, at least to my understanding, and sometimes I salute their memo capacity.
To vain it up, nowadays, memorizing will only let you win half of the battle. You will feel the pain as what some commentators said during college and university years. So what’s the use of implementing this kind of skill before tertiary education?
Aside from unpractical dull classes for students, wasted text books (maybe someone is earning money from the sells of mainstream references?) and teachers or trolls, we need now to pay extra for an education we wished to opt out for.
I for one, would be glad to send my future children to an international school if my prospects is no longer in this country anymore. But if otherwise, i will just enroll them in a school that will be using the correct teaching materials and subject-centric teachers. I’ve listed such schools already, but then, memorizing game again, anyone?
If we’re to model countries like hong kong and singapore, there’s still the cons to think about. So, the best kept secret to adapt in any environment is this motto: ‘count using chinese, think using english’, and not forget to eat alot of pork..hehe
42. Madness | June 19th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Oh ya, need to vent this out, who says all Bumiputras are being prioritized? My bidayuh and iban friends who scored all As didn’t even get a chance to study in local universities. Now that is an insult to us Sarawakians…
Want proper education, we need to sacrifice money for now…nothing is free
43. Aaron | June 25th, 2008 at 9:52 am
I am a Form 2 student currently studying in SMK Sacred Heart (your former school). I hate school especially when the time we are “baked” in the old hall( new hall is reserved for special occasions, i.e assembly, Teacher’s Day (1st of July or 28th of June if I am not mistaken). This is my timetable at school:-
11.00 am- Go to school
11.30 am- Chit-chat session at nearby coffee shop
12.00 pm- Rush to get to hall before been caned
12.45 pm- Boring crap lectures starts
3.25 pm- Happy Hour
3.45 pm- Boring lectures continues
6.25 pm- Home time
Every time during our History lesson, Mdm Wong Siew Gi will talk crap, British, British, British. We will also start our happy hour at that time.
Why the fucking government just introduce home-schooling or abolish the fucking PMR, SPM and STPM? Fuck the Ministry of Education!