An Education System Worthy of Malaysia – Bakri Musa
That’s a good book to read, the objective is non obvious than overhauling Malaysian’s Education system. But somehow, I wonder what it takes to change the majority through a system, when the majorities have been living in the comfort zone for so long.
'Poor Malay fishermen do not invest in their children’s education not because they do not value education, rather they could not afford to. While education is the key to eradicating poverty, ironically poverty is also the greatest impediment to getting an education.' - Bakri Musa
Skills and knowledge - the key to success… everyone knows that.
What happen if the fisherman work continuously day and night fulfilling his dream of sending jr. to one of the top university, but the son is more interested in joining Akademi Fantasia and becoming Malaysian Idol?
Reading is not the popular hobbies especially to the malays. That is the reason why most Malay students fail to do well in school. Material is the benchmark for success, and therefore seeing Mawi making millions through singing (which is not that well-honestly) will definitely eliminate the desire of giving their best in class.
‘belajar rajin2, besar nanti boleh beli rumah besar, kereta besar, bini pun lawa’ - if that is the motivation line used, forget about overhauling the education system. I’m starting to think why I took engineering…urghh
'Poor Malay fishermen do not invest in their children’s education not because they do not value education, rather they could not afford to. While education is the key to eradicating poverty, ironically poverty is also the greatest impediment to getting an education.' - Bakri Musa
Skills and knowledge - the key to success… everyone knows that.
What happen if the fisherman work continuously day and night fulfilling his dream of sending jr. to one of the top university, but the son is more interested in joining Akademi Fantasia and becoming Malaysian Idol?
Reading is not the popular hobbies especially to the malays. That is the reason why most Malay students fail to do well in school. Material is the benchmark for success, and therefore seeing Mawi making millions through singing (which is not that well-honestly) will definitely eliminate the desire of giving their best in class.
‘belajar rajin2, besar nanti boleh beli rumah besar, kereta besar, bini pun lawa’ - if that is the motivation line used, forget about overhauling the education system. I’m starting to think why I took engineering…urghh
posted by Shahrul Azmi at 2:41 PM
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We should always monitor our children's interest. Then we can guide them on which area they should go for their further study. If we fail to do that, they will end up thinking like this, "I’m starting to think why I took engineering…urghh
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