I have a proposal to reverse the damage done by our overzealous politicians who unceremoniously killed off English-medium schools in this country and laid the foundation for the current deteriorating racial relations and the advent of a new breed of Malaysians called the 'unemployable graduates'.

My proposal in to make all former mission schools in every state a government English-medium school funded by the government. In 15 years, 90 percent of the Chinese-medium schools and100 percent of the Tamil-medium schools in the urban areas will die off naturally.

With a globalised world, the demand for English education is so acute that not doing this will be a crime against the Malaysian humanity. The powers-that-be know this and that is why more and more politicians are sending their own kids for a foreign education or electing to send their children to locally-based international schools.

If you can allow vernacular schools why not English-medium schools? The most united and broad minded Malaysians today are undoubtedly those who came from our colonial education system, and Malaysians need a united Malaysia now more than ever before.

You can then do away with that wasteful, badly thought out scheme called the National (dis)Service programme as well as the 'National Enrichment Policy' (NEP), which caters for the well-connected.

The flow from all other vernacular schools towards the English-medium schools will slowly swell and with time, the government's present headaches will vanish. Make three subjects in Bahasa Malaysia compulsory. Start with the first batch going for Standard One next year. Waste no more time for our children's and grandchildren's sakes.