I agree. I could never understand how could a person call himself poor if he can do A Level instead of the free STPM. What more, at the expensive Taylor and everything around it.
Apparently, there is an A-level scholar in IMU... he paid for the A-lvl, not by scholarship.
Everybody is entitled to his or her opinion. But my gut feeling is, if people are going to take a vote as to whether they consider your friend 'rich' or 'poor', many would not consider him poor because he spent RM30K on A Level when he could do free STPM. So there you have it, many people would think the one doing STPM is poorer than your friend so more justifiable to get financial sponsorship than your friend.
Now if your friend is brilliant but not that brilliant, he should have access to some sort of financial loan which have to be repaid back later.
On the other hand, if your friend is truly brilliant and got offer to do medicine or dentistry at Cambridge or some top universities etc, then your friend is certainly entitled to have financial scholarship because in
true meritocracy, merit scholarship should be awarded without any reference to race, color or social status (wealth) as a
reward & recognition for excellence. Period.
In other word, even if your friend have a billionaire as a father, he is still entitled to merit scholarship. IMO, many people can not differentiate between merit scholarship and study loan thinking rich student are NOT entitled to merit scholarship. Only in Communist country are brilliant but rich student being denied merit scholarship. I think they called such student "undesirable landlord" class or "working people's enemy" or something like that. To be despised and spitted upon. But from reading the news, many people think Malaysia is a Communist country insisting those who are rich should not be given merit scholarship. Now I am getting very confused myself. Are we are aren't we a communist country?
Here's a good example by some well meaning person "Scholarships should be
awarded on merit, and if at all, certainly
not to rich students". This is an oxymoron statement because it goes against the very definition of meritocracy. On the one hand, he said it should be awarded on merit. On the other hand, being rich is a disqualification regardless of how full of merits he/she is.
http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/06/03/sto...or-acca-abroad/The fact that it was posted on DAP supremo blog might suggest DAP/Pakatan do not support true meritocracy like the BN, despite what they claimed to be championing meritocracy. God help us. We sure is a nation of many very confused people who shouted "meritocracy" aloud but never even bother looking up in the dictionary the definition of "meritocracy".
If paying RM 500K only cost you 5% of your wealth, then you shouldn't be given a scholarship, regardless of race or ethnicity. Do not bring politics into this thread.
May 7 2010, 11:06 AM
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