COMMENT | If there is one thing I have realised since 2018, it is politicians usually carry two personas; one is when they are in the opposition, and one is when they are running Putrajaya.

When they are in the opposition, they say all the right things but when in power, politicians tend to forget the very things they used to champion.

Now, coming to the matter at hand. Recently, Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek said something so hilariously mind-boggling - that Malaysia’s curriculum is comparable to countries such as Singapore and Japan.

She justified it by saying it was based on a comparative study the ministry conducted - which also involved comparing Malaysia’s curriculum to that of Australia, the United Kingdom and Finland.

“The findings showed that the school curriculum in Malaysia is comparable to the curriculum of the other countries,” she said in a written reply to the Parliament on Feb 17.

Just three days earlier, Muar MP Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman cautioned the government by saying that...