Azly Rahman

BOOK REVIEW | Elegant work in its own class

BOOK REVIEW | Elegant work in its own class

Book on British colonialism is a must-read.
COMMENT | Government of doom that is afraid of Zoom

COMMENT | Government of doom that is afraid of Zoom

They are creating chaos instead of representing the people or alleviating the suffering of the poor.

COMMENT | Future of education: Notes from an Oxford-Cambridge webinar

COMMENT | Future of education: Notes from an Oxford-Cambridge webinar

COMMENT | The Covid-19 pandemic is presenting us both an opportunity and a challenge for education.

COMMENT | The Malay 'Matrix ' and 'Malaycoronapolitics'

COMMENT | The Malay 'Matrix ' and 'Malaycoronapolitics'

Malays need a 'Neo' to rescue them from the Matrix of 'Malaycoronapolitics'.

COMMENT | A Malaysian human sacrifice?

COMMENT | A Malaysian human sacrifice?

Why are we risking our young and the elderly by reopening the economy now?

COMMENT | Opening daycare centres, crafting our fatalities

COMMENT | Opening daycare centres, crafting our fatalities

Why are we risking our young and the elderly by reopening the economy now?

COMMENT | Students need more than just TikTok

COMMENT | Students need more than just TikTok

'Education is a serious business that requires systemic, systematic, and strategic considerations to create a progressive and intelligent society.'

COMMENT | It's a scary new world we're entering

COMMENT | It's a scary new world we're entering

The world as we know it – of free enterprise and of rapid globalisation – will dramatically change.

Tabligh to yourself at home, please

Tabligh to yourself at home, please

Stay home, be safe and be healthy. As you don’t know what you will be spreading outside.

Waiting for a fatwa to fight the coronavirus?

Waiting for a fatwa to fight the coronavirus?

COMMENT | This is the time for immediate action against the virus outbreak, not for the 'lepak' or 'tidak apa' attitude.

Will Malaysia's coronapolitics destroy our educational hope?

Will Malaysia's coronapolitics destroy our educational hope?

COMMENT | Education is Malaysia's biggest failure. That's where we breed race and religious bigotry.

Our 'coronapolitics' not a game of thrones, but toilet bowls

Our 'coronapolitics' not a game of thrones, but toilet bowls

COMMENT | The ugliness of race and religion politics will be back in full swing. Damn these politicians!

Will the rakyat accept this backdoor government?

Will the rakyat accept this backdoor government?

COMMENT | This magnitude of no-shame politics would derail all possible plans for a truly multicultural social evolution.

Not a joke to teach English to kampung folks

Not a joke to teach English to kampung folks

COMMENT | It's not funny when the Malays are in need of English to master science and technology, esp when the Malay language just does not cut it.

Can we stop listening to these people?

Can we stop listening to these people?

COMMENT | It is not complicated and certainly not rocket science when it comes to choosing the language to teach Science and Maths.

Where hate has no home

Where hate has no home

COLUMN | This is my continuing call for educators, to learn about appreciating others.

Deeper than the deep state this thing is

Deeper than the deep state this thing is

COMMENT | Radical Islamic ideologues infiltrating our education system are a clear and present danger to our multicultural society.

What the future holds for Malaysian education?

What the future holds for Malaysian education?

COMMENT | We are in the much-heralded year of Vision 2020, yet we have no idea where we are headed.

Under Harapan, shouldn’t MRSM be for all Malaysians?

Under Harapan, shouldn’t MRSM be for all Malaysians?

COMMENT | MRSM should be taken over and managed wisely by a council of multicultural educationists.

In search of a M'sian Socrates to be education minister

In search of a M'sian Socrates to be education minister

COMMENT | The story of Malaysia is the story of how classes of people are created through the conveyer belt called 'education'.

Pathetic exam question about a problematic, not iconic, person

Pathetic exam question about a problematic, not iconic, person

COMMENT | The minds of the young Malay-Muslims are at the mercy of ideologues who wish to destroy society.

Malaysian education's biggest failure

Malaysian education's biggest failure

COMMENT | "It has been 50 years since May 13, 1969, and we still have Muslim youth invoking that semiotic of racial violence."

Postpone the Jawi lessons

Postpone the Jawi lessons

COMMENT | No critical thinking nor creative thinking is infused in these lessons. These are just pages of "what is Jawi". So what?

What the KL Summit should be about

What the KL Summit should be about

COMMENT | Is this summit yet another time and money-waster in which the speakers are merely bringing in stale proposals?