Azly Rahman

COMMENT | No amount of technology can replace a human being, a teacher, including via that proposal to use video-tapes of “Japanese-style teaching”.

COMMENT | A good history lesson does not teach children to memorise 'facts' that are suspect.

COMMENT | In my new book I write about the issues plaguing the new regime that mutated from the ancien.

COMMENT | Time to analyse culture, capitalism, and human liberation. 

COMMENT | What is happening is a continuation of unclear vision and a rabid hanging on to racial and religious dogma.

COMMENT | Malaysians cannot tolerate preaching that is filled with half-baked truths, and inciting threats to our multicultural polity.

COMMENT | "Think Malaysian – we do not have anything to lose except our mental chains."

COMMENT | The Ministry of Education must educate, not aggravate, propagate.

COMMENT | The question nobody can answer, except Mahathir himself is: who does he want as his successor?

COMMENT | We need thinking skills infused in all our lessons, not more drill and mindless exercises.

COMMENT | A molehill sitting on top of a mountain of radical Islamism.

COMMENT | At present, I don't see the Education Ministry mandating cross-cultural training for teachers.

COMMENT | The Ministry of Education needs to understand how to make education meaningful to the Orang Asli.

COMMENT | Promises were made a year ago, and shattered a year after. By design. By decree. By political deception.

COMMENT | "Discipline children with dialogue. Treat them like little adults. They'll grow as wise as you wish them to."

COMMENT | "Let us not promote ignorance and mistake children’s concern for the future as “propaganda”."

COMMENT | What will our youths vote for when democracy itself is not mature?

COMMENT | Lewd democracy, porno-politics is uniquely Malaysian.

COMMENT | 'Or has the world been an unpredictable universe of chance and randomness, and unpredictable events from which we try to find patterns, meanings, explanation?'

COMMENT | What we have now is a minister merely carrying out a political agenda.

COMMENT |  Education is about the lives and potential of young minds, regardless of race, religion, colour, creed.

COMMENT | Johor Baru of the 70s was the stinkiest, smelliest, sweatiest city in Malaysia.

COMMENT | A day of preparation for men in black and red headbands to head to the capital to battle with the Chinese.

COMMENT | There was a group of around 30 or so people, all men and some boys.