Muhyiddin is deaf and blind to Page
YOURSAY 'To say that no one complained is telling a lie. We can send you the articles which complained about the change in PPSMI policy.'
Nail in the coffin for PPSMI, says Muhyiddin
Disbeliever:
Rubbish! When it was first announced that the PPSMI (Teaching of Maths and Science in English) was to be scrapped, there were many who voiced, and are still voicing, out against its removal.
Today, the education minister says that this issue has been accepted by all and sundry.
DPM/Education Minister, you chose not to listen to Page and all the others who have been calling for the PPSMI to be retained.
Should Najib Razak be ousted as Umno president, it will clear the way for you to take over, and I fear that it is going to be 'out of the frying pan into the fire' for the rakyat.
Rocky: Does DPM Muhyiddin Yassin think we are stupid? Lots of people have complained about the PPSMI policy, even former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad, but they refused to listen.
To say now that no one complained is telling a lie. We can send you all the articles which complained about the change in policy.
For a better Malaysia: Sorry, Muhyiddin, not true. We have been voicing our unhappiness about the abolition of PPSMI. Not just that but also the issue with ‘Interlok' and on History being made a compulsory subject SPM examinations.
You just chose not to listen.
Anonymous_3e8f: From the onset, there was concern and opposition. Just because Umno controls the mass media, you try to give a wrong picture.
Anyway, what's the problem with PPSMI? Advertise for English teachers to teach Maths and Science in schools. Don't count on the hundreds of below-standard graduates churned by the government universities. These graduates can't even construct a simple sentence in English.
The DPM should have listened to BFM radio yesterday morning where someone in the public relations industry said he had problems finding people who can speak and write proficiently in English.
Lynn: People have been opposing the scrapping of PPSMI since they announced it in 2009. Muhyiddin has obviously chosen to forget that.
The only thing the majority of Malaysians understand is our education is getting worse and worse with every new education minister bent on outdoing his predecessor in playing politics with our children's future.
My THOR: Of all ministries, the Education Ministry has always been the most problematic as the policies adopted by the ministry are haphazard due to pressure from Umno.
What matters most now is that local students are going to pay heavily for any blunder that may arise, while children of BN leaders will not be affected as they are sent overseas.
As long as race and religion is the main concern in our education system, this issue will never rest.
Myrights: Muhyiddin still does not get it. It's not about English proficiency but about using teaching Maths and Science in English to provide children with the right tools in helping them learn the subject effectively and preparing them for tertiary education when Maths and Science will be in English.
The students are thus already be familiar with terms used in Maths and Sciences when they get to the university. Plus, massive information can be found in the Internet and they are mostly in English.
Sarajun Hoda: Malaysians are condemned. With all the technology developing so fast, they will be beyond our children, unless they go to another country to acquire them.
Some people feel safer living under the coconut shell. But if this goes on, a decade later, developed countries will look at us exactly as we look at the aborigines living in Amazon.
Anonymous: The only thing that is constant is "change". Nothing should be permanent unless we want to remain irrelevant.
We maintain the status quo at our own peril and if you are a true and wise leader you should have the guts to do what is correct. If we continue to do what our forefathers, their forefathers and their forefathers did, we would be left behind.
Japan and South Korea did it in their own languages, but it took them a very long and difficult time. Do we have the same stamina and the time to do it?
That notwithstanding, is it not a universal right of every parent to decide on the choice of how they wish to educate their children? Elected representatives have no right to take away the inalienable right of the parents.
Anonymous_3e97: Muhyiddin can't comprehend that the only way Malaysians can be more competitive than the Japanese, Koreans and Chinese is by mastering English. Even the Chinese are now emphasising on learning English in order to be globally competitive.
In case he himself has forgotten, the competitive edge of our human capital in conversing in English has been our forte in attracting FDI (foreign direct investment). We can only match the Singaporeans in terms of English.
If our next generation loses that, I shudder to think of what would happen to our children's future.
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