Good Morning...logged in this morning and saw the title has been changed from "The Science Lab" to "PhD School".

Okie...let's look at Malaysia’s progress in education since our (Is it ours? Or it belongs to certain race?) country gained Independence in 1957.

What I'm going to say would be a knack sensitive to certain individuals but what I'm going to pen here is just my piece of mind.

Primary school? Secondary school? National school? Vernacular school? These aren't worth to mentioned. There are certain nincompoops who think that our education system has absolutely no need to change...It's still running albeit a little bit ~!@#$%^&* up, why want to change it's course?

But, of course, life isn't rainbows and sunshines...Life's is not fair. We are not playing "Monopoly" board game where everyone gets $200 at Start. Yes, life likes to kick yu in the balls. No point grieving over it because it a vicious cycle. Would I be getting used to it? To tell yu the truth, YES. I'm sick and tired of that some people have had better opportinities than me.

Hey, 5% discounts for house purchasing? That's ~!@#$%^&* fair. Implementation of 30% quota? That's really ~!@#$%^&* nice. UiTM? WHOA~~~That's really thoughtful.
Hey, if yu don't like what we are doing, heck! it, just leave. All this for the exchange of citizenship??!! Yu got to be kidding me, right? Is Article 153 questionable? NOPE. Unless the Government's table is turned.

On my other note, I'm not some leftist or anything nor I'm a ~!@#$%^&* PhD holder. I'm just a regular Malaysian who wishes to eat roti canai in the morning and a cup of Kopi-O.

Back in the 80's, I still remember me and my other classmates who had to borrow our textbooks through Skim Pinjaman Buku Teks (SPBT), do they still have that? Anyway, for the bright ones and the shallow ones as years passes by...who will have the opportunities to enrol into MARA junior science colleges, bumiputera boarding schools, or even Matrikulasi?

If life were fair, what would happened? What would have possibly happened? Denial after denial...we are taken as a second class citizens. Don't yu know that after years living in Malaysia? Am I emotional for these denials? Not entirely. But what ticks me off is the wastage of talents and brilliance of fellow Malaysian. Brain drain, anyone?

Recently the ASMB's shares? Look at the percentage allocation of shares to Bumiputera and non-bumiputera. It's on the newspapers. Closed tenders to Bumiputera contractors? It's well opened news. So what's the hidden agenda, huh? Transparency? It goes down in the drain.

It's ALL ABOUT CHANGE.

There are certain steps which can be considered in regards of hiring good English teachers. Don't tell me the Government doesn't have enough funding. It's all ~!@#$%^&* crap. Incentives can be given, training and development can be implemented, what about hiring those who retired but still have the passion and ability to teach science and mathematics properly in English?

Yes. It's ALL ABOUT CHANGE.

The change of the system. It can be improve and ameliorate. Curriculum can be cleaned up and revamped. Encourage critical thinking and the sense of curiousity both in the class and outside activities. Not some figure crunching, text memorising living zombies.

Aaaahhhhh...if only our Government change. Change in the education system. For those ~!@#$%^&* ignorant minded individual piece of shit who think that our education system is on the right track, yu ought to be shot in the head.

Although our education system is ~!@#$%^&* up, it's advisable that yu get a basic education. Find a way to weave your future. It took me 3 times of application to enrolled in a local private University with a scholarship couple of years back. It very much ticked me off but it served as an experience.

Unless yu are one of the "elites" in our society, yu can bid goodbye to good education. HG Wells once said "It is not exaggerating to say that human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. If we continue to leave vast sections of the people of the world outside the orbit of education, we make the world not only less just, but also less secure."

Regards, Joey

p.s: Thread Starter, your mentality is totally wrong. No matter how bitter our lives would be, education plays an importance in our lives.

15 to 20 years of education IS NOT JUST FOR SECURING A JOB.

Endless years of education IS FOR ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE and BETTER UNDERSTANDING.


This post has been edited by Joey Christensen: Aug 3 2009, 04:43 PM

Do yu need a crutch?

Your case is applicable to the admission of bumiputera in the higher learning institutions. They have the "privileges". UiTM? Sounds familiar? Matrikulasi? Sounds better than STPM? But all these institutions are churning nothing but ~!@#$%^&* craps? Yu do the guessing.

Have yu heard of the saying "A bad carpenter blames his tools?" How true it is to yu?

Let me ask yu a very straight forward question: Would yu DISCOURAGE/HINDER your child/children to get basic schooling/knowledge? Yes or No?

Regards, Joey

This post has been edited by Joey Christensen: Aug 3 2009, 12:05 PM