Interesting topic… I’m working in this industry myself and I don’t agree about this in 100%, but I added your page to my bookmarks and hope to see more interesting articles in the future

As for Dr. Bakri’s post, I think that the main problem with Malaysian schools as things stand are the teachers. They are overworked and underpaid, and given the wrong subjects to teach (to boot). I know pf teachers with physics degrees teaching secondary school biology, and IT teachers forced to teach history. Before moving on to deeper details, we must correct this problem by properly training and allocating teachers.

Perhaps you should go register your handle as a trademark and then you can file a lawsuit. In the meantime, posters here are not interested in who is who - except what you say here.

Some of you will probably say “but he did offer suggestions how to solve the problem whattttt”. I know, but let me give you an example. Just supposed i want to eat an apple hanging from a tree. You guys would probably say go pluck the apple and eat as the obvious solution to the problem. I was hoping for a more specific answer such as “grab the ladder from the woodshed, climb the tree and pluck the apple”.

This is all very unplanned, so please don’t be too hard on my example. But what im trying to ask is just this. Can we have more specifics on how things can be done? As many of you know, Malaysia’s laws are very very ironclad and it’s hard to exploit anything that could mean a change with any regards to education, race and religion etc. So how do we stop the rot that is making our country less than what we should be?

What the hell are you trying to pull here? I know your anonymity is your shield, but at least have some self respect and stop hijacking people’s comments!!! Idiot..

But then that proposal needs Man of substance, ethical & integrity.

Br Bakri is right to say that environment maketh the man. But take a look at the present environment that our M’sian society is operating under!

The three branches of the govt are a joke; with monkey see monkey do. Moreover most of them now operate to certain extend like fiefdoms with minor ’sultans’.

In the private sectors everyone looks within their own boundary defined by self interest. See how our press & media behave! Even some of our NGOs cannot look further than their limited resources can provide.

Then our political parties - the biggest joke in town.

Trying to fight & change from within? Provided you don’t get overflown by all the inter-plays of self interests surrond you. MCA, Gerakan, MIC & UMNO are all the same. they are all only interested to look after their own pockets.

Only when there is spilled-overs will then the commoners being thrown a skinned bones. & yet the commoners are still being fooled to perpetuate the same game.

These are the reflections of our educational system. Dr Bakri is right to emphasize the rehabilitation of our education system, which has being run down throughout the course of her history.

All the modern features in the schools will maketh a MAN if the basics of humanity are being imparted diligently, unbigotly & historically correct.

What’s the point of having a technically skilled person & yet the mind is dark like a chasm with only one tunnel direction.

& yet beyond all those unemployable graduates & within those employed ‘cream de la creams’ there are those that fall within this category. These are the people that are carrying the course of the nation towards darker pages & the momentun is accelerating.

Ya! by all means fight within the system, provided one’s conviction will not be swagged by the surrounding enviromental factors.

BUT where to get this MAN of calibre to take up this challenge? Who will be the conscience of M’sia to wake up the general ‘bolehan’ by sacrifice him/herself to fire the first volley!

This volley will have to be in the educational field & it’ll take many years & sacrifices to achieve a minor first step to untwisted the 40+ years of political interferences in educating our youth.

& yet I’m dispair.

Let the good doc return and offer his services to those he says closest to his heart – his “comrades-in- arms” so to speak. There is no point offering lip service and indulging in useless rhetoric, with that “I know best attitude” or holier than thou attitude. There is nothing new about your ideas as others have trodden down the same path and have found them impracticable.

Having Din Merican as your sidekick will not make up for the lack of originality in your ideas.

….are you still there?

A small price for wanting to institute changes like asri has advocated.