When I see people cutting queue , I do only one thing. I turn on the volume of my ipod louder and hypnotize myself through the whole process.

Education certainly play a big part in educating children so that they develop the sense of mannerism and correct ethic to carry. But unfortunately, most of the teachers at school are lazy asses who only wait to get paid every month and teach only whats from the book. Other than that, they do nothing. The signboard at the canteen asking students to queue up is just for decoration and was never meant to be enforced.

The canteen operator often ignore the fact that the children wasnt queuing up, coz they are only after the money after all. As for the teachers, once at the canteen, eyes on food only and they assume that their duty as a teacher is relieved.

I think its bullshit, before we can even depend on education to provide a proper and correct education to the children and teens, we might want to look at what form of education and motivation was given to the Educator themselves first. A horse cannot teach a bird how to run, and a bird cannot teach a cow how to fly.

Parents can teach their children these values, but it is at school that these values can be applied and truly put to test. If there are 200 students in the school and only 20 of them queue up at the canteen, then these 20 pups wont get food at all in the end of the day. Our education system is rotten, they cannot even enforce simple things like "Please Queue Up while buying food" , or "Please leave your plate in the tray after eating" what more if we are expecting them to deliver in science subjects?

Our "Smart" Government is too busy wiping their ass thinking about which language certain subjects should be taught in and if UPSR should be abolished. They cant even solve such a simple thing like Queuing up at school yet. When such a failure is present, then what is before our eyes now in what we see in our daily life, is the result of that failure.

This post has been edited by Zozi: Sep 8 2010, 02:11 AM

Yeah i fully understand where you're coming from, I mentioned mostly about school and educator's role in playing a part in instilling these values because TS mentioned about Education's part in this in the topic description. True that parents play a bigger role in nurturing the child than anyone else, but my point is, at school children tend to face "Queuing up" more than at home. Example given would be, school canteen, bookshop, bus stop, or submitting homeworks. Even if the parents managed to teach their children the importance of queuing up, but if at school the teachers failed to enforce this value, it would be useless as well. Another fine example would be, parents teaching children about harmony among races and the recent case where a school principal threw racist remark to the student and thus creating a wrong impression of what is right or wrong. Teachers are parents too, if they failed in making sure the children at school queue up whenever they are supposed to, then to what extend they would be a good parent , parenting their child ?

Those are not people, those are animals

My personal solution of dealing with queue cutters.

Jump right infront of him/her , thus cutting his/her queue, turn around and ask him/her "How does that feel ? "

If you look at it from one angle, yeah its childish. But look at it from another, wouldn't that put a smile for all others whom their queues been cut as well ? Wouldn't that send a clear msg to this queue cutter's face? Public will look at him with acknowledgement to my action, and this dude/lad will be ashamed of his/her own action

Its childish because its simple and probably most immature solution, but the result is better than keeping quiet and rant about it in the forum.
Just ma 2 cents

the "Tidak Apa" attitude is whats inside the mentality of most people in malaysia, it cant be helped if the government dont act against it.

Government do play a big part in this in fact. If the government today announces its wish and effort to really enforce in the line of education that Queuing up is compulsory and by all means, they will make it happen. Then imagine our society 30 years later, when queuing up will eventually become a habit among malaysians. Family is important too, but family cannot work alone in producing such results, because many families out there couldn't care less.



This post has been edited by Zozi: Sep 11 2010, 10:34 AM