' Educate! but first, we must educate the educators.' - Frederich Nietsche

'Teach your children according to the (changing) times they live in.' - Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

My weekend was spent thinking about the shape of Malaysian education to come, particularly as we excitedly await the new Malaysian educational blueprint to go public. Will our children become great thinkers and good and tolerant Malaysians? Or will they become good labourers in the international labour system and continue to be more sophisticated racists?

This is how powerful education is as a contested terrain.

Having been an educator and a student of transcultural philosophies for almost two decades, I find the practice of educating constantly shifting whereas its core remains stable. After teaching more than 40 courses (in the field of education, politics, civilisation, arts and humanities, philosophy, language, international relations, American history and cultural studies) I am still learning what Malaysia is trying to do with her educational system. Today, I have a perspective to share with the minister of education and with dedicated Malaysian teachers.