Having claimed that the Education Ministry had failed in its policy with regards to the teaching of Science and Mathematics in English in primary schools, they now say that the teaching of English will now begin at pre-schools. It will interesting to see how such a policy will be implemented by the Education Ministry, and whether they will succeed with this policy. Definitely, the results can only be seen in no less than 5 years from today, or thereabout.
We were taught in military schools that if having failed in a particular piece of military operation, we should not try to force another plan with the view to winning the failed military operation. The military term used here is ‘to reinforce failure’, because reinforcing failure will lead to more failure.
In planning a military operation, we should not allow a situation where the enemy can overwhelm us. If we allow the enemy to overwhelm us, and to take control of the battle area, it will be much more difficult for us to regain what has been lost. The option to adopt when faced with such a situation would be:
1. To be reinforced early using the reserves available before the enemy is able to overwhelm us, with the view to sustaining the battle, and weakening the enemy’s resolve.
2. If reserves are not available, to withdraw to be regrouped to fight another day’s battle; thus avoiding unacceptable losses.
Taking the military lessons described above, I would have thought that a better option to resolve the problem faced by the Education Ministry in the teaching of Science and Mathematics in English is not to rescind the policy, but to adopt a two prong solution i.e. to continue with the current policy of teaching Science and Mathematics in English, and simultaneously impose the policy of teaching English at pre-school. This option is much unlike what the government has adopted i.e. rescinding one existing policy and introducing another policy that is totally different and with uncertain results. This is quite similar to term ‘reinforcing failure’ that I have stated above, that is likely to end in disaster.
I know that to adopt the option that I had described is not an easy one because it requires a lot of English teaching staffs to be trained. But what we shall get in the end are more and better trained teachers that a proficient in English.
And is this not what the government wants to achieve at the end of the day? More English speaking teachers.
CRUSADE AGAINST CORRUPTION
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I DID SAY IN ONE OF MY EARLIER POSTINGS SOME MONTHS BACK, WE NEED OUR COUNTRY TO REALLY SEND FUTURE AND POTENTIAL LEADERS TO READ MILITARY HISTORY AND LEARN ABOUT MILITARY PHILOSOPHY!
LIKE THE US SYSTEM MOST HAVE SERVED AS NATIONAL SERVICE AND KNOWS WHAT THE HACK IT IS ALL ABOUT BEING A SOLDIER AND WHAT SOLDIERING IS ALL ABOUT!
OTHERWISE THEY JUST GO OFF SHOOTING THEIR BLOODY OWN BULLOCKS! TALKING COCK&BULL STORIES!
THEY WILL NEVER LEARN! CAN'T TEACH ANY OLD COCKS HOW TO SO CALLED "SCREW" !
Bahasa Melayu and Bahasa Inggeris have become the victims of our Malaysia political ideologies, accept it! For shouting out loud to fight for Bahasa Melayu in the name of patriotism and nationalism, we sacrificed the good old english medium schooling system replacing with sekolah kebangsaan and jenis kebangsaan at the cost of the most important language in the world - English until our new generations found the difficulties to further studies and to work with their Rojak English standard.
And the sad thing is that to see our Bahasa Melayu had not been capable for 40 odd years to be made by those so called Bahasa Melayu champions to be a viable tool for gaining knowledge, I don't know why are they still fighting hard to "maintain" the mockery of Bahasa Melayu.
There's no short cut in English, you must eat, live and die with that language and for that matter with any language to master it. The fact is that, while the politicians lauding the "perjuangan memertabatkan Bahasa Melayu", it is open secret that many rich Malaysians and many politicians, sent their children at young age to learning institutions abroard, while the lowly rakyat had to climb from the ranks to reach the doors of the real world situation to find that the "moment of truth" is when they regret it why we Malaysian was not taught in English while we had the chance to do it at the earliest stage.
What a bloody stupid government this BN is, they are good only in making sure their "UMNO elite" to keep ruling this country.
Well said FMZAM !
Thanks for shooting them down again that is the real agenda of MELAYU UMNO....in this country
Forever, ANAK orang kampung akan jadi ANAK orang kampung, anak menteri AKAN jadi MENTERI dan CEO GLC's!
TU LAH MELAYU KENA TIPU HIDUP HIDUP DENGAN MELAYU BANGSAT DALAM UMNO!
ANAK NELAYAN, PENOREH,PETANI DAN PENEROKA AKAN JADI MAT REMPIT & MAT DADAH !
MELAYU TERUS LAYU DAN AKAN PUPUS DARI BUMI INI JIKA UMNO TERUSKAN AGENDA MEREKA!
MA SYA ALLAH....
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