I READ with much concern the problems highlighted about our education system recently in the Daily Express’ Forum section. The writers all correctly pinpointed what was wrong with our education system.
A person may fail Malay and History but might be talented artists, skilful technicians, bright scientists or innovative engineers. But they are not going to be able to further harness their God-given talents if we deny them the right to further their studies.
Frankly speaking, there should not be any compulsory-pass subjects in the SPM. Anyone who has studied Education Psychology will tell us that every individual is different. We cannot expect everyone to be good at memorising dates and events, or discuss political decisions made centuries earlier. Some people may be bad at history but they can be very good in science, mathematics or arts. Our education system therefore is not very kind to this diversity of talents.
A person may fail Malay and History but might be talented artists, skilful technicians, bright scientists or innovative engineers. But they are not going to be able to further harness their God-given talents if we deny them the right to further their studies. Any intelligent person reading our school’s history books can easily tell which segment of society is being glorified and which communities are being deliberately left out. This will only have the opposite effect of what the writers of our History syllabus had planned to achieve. The human mind is such that, the more you try restrict it, the more it wants to break free.
In his speech when installed as Chancellor of Universiti Malaya on June 16, 1962, he said English should remain the medium of instruction right up to university.
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