Towards Improving Our National Education System

Around circles of readers, many have discussed and asked among themselves the appropriateness and the need for Malaysia to streamline their education system and importantly, the effort to improve the quality of our schools as a whole.

Chief among the concerns is the legality of vernacular schools itself vis-á-vis the Constitution and the Education Act 1996.

This I may add has been discussed rather thoroughly here.

But this issue shall be discussed at another time.

My main interpretation of school’s education system is this:

It must be free from any religious or cultural extremities.

In a way, it should be secular. Secular sounds dirty these days. Mainly because the word had been bastardised to the extent, it meant atheism or a belief system that is devoid of any religious connotations. Worse, it meant anti-Islam. However, the definition of secularism with regards to our children’s education should not be taken to the extreme. Certainly it does not mean that one rejects religion and faith in totality.

What we need is moderation.

These days, the majority of school children in national schools are Malays. Therefore, inadvertently Islamic teachings made their way into the schools’ general rules and education philosophy. I assume, those who are more objective as well as those who are not a fan of Anwar Ibrahim will pin point the cause of this ‘Islamisation’ of our national schools and the reason why non-malays shun these schools stemmed from the period when Anwar Ibrahim was the Education Minister.

That too, is an issue that can be discussed in another place.

But what I imagine is a school system that do not put too much emphasis on skin deep outlook on what is Islamic and what is not. It means, an education philosophy that prioritises worldly skills and knowledge instead of just focussing to permeate an intense Islamic culture within a school’s environment.

Without a doubt, this has made non Muslims felt alienated in their own surroundings. Parents were not happy. Even the less conservative Muslims found it hard to digest some of the do’s and don’ts. The effort to educate the children properly seems lost in the midst of all this. As the result, we cannot develop a well rounded Malaysians who are capable to interact with each other with ease.

In other words, the recent education system is worse than the education set in the 60’s, 70’s and till the mid 80’s. Experts pin pointed it due to the degradation of national schools; both in quality and self respect.

The cliché now is the world is changing at a rate faster than our children’s ability to absorb and comprehend all the knowledge. If we burden them with misguided priorities, then our future generations are trapped in a cycle of ignorance, or being mediocre at best.

Toning down religious and cultural extremities enables the school to produce a much healthier environment where tolerance is paramount and it breaks down the barriers between races, castes and classes. Emphasising too much on the ritual demands will not breed respect in fact, will isolate the children from each other. It will be “it’s us against them” mentality. And this does not happen in malay majority schools only.

How to move forward and take that jump in order to escape the mediocrity of our education system?

It is about time the Ministry of Education take a stronger role in steering our children’s future away from the negative elements that have been plaguing it. Elements that have always been sniping and eating away the very fabric of one’s edification in growing up within our Malaysian universe.

The bigger objective here is always a two edged sword. One that can improve via knowledge, a whole generation of Malaysians and one that also inculcate the spirit of togetherness and racial harmony among the children.

Of course this can be done with a single stream national education system. Preferably at the primary level.

Delving into few discussions on the one school system, there are obviously few doubts being raised among the concerned readers. Among others, questions regarding the quality of education and syllabus, quality of teachers and their approach, learning environment and school’s infrastructure as well as its overall ability to coalesce different ideologies, religions and cultures into one symbiotic and workable system.

Generally, many agreed that the holistic performance of the students is very important for their own future and this can only be done if the MOE is not weak in steering its direction and truly knows how improvements can be implemented.

One of the reasons why national schools could not generate enough interests from all levels of society is due to its inability to churn good students across the board. Yes we do have excellent schools that produce a myriad of high achievers. But these schools are far from between. The MOE should make all national schools at par with their more affluent counterparts.

Fortunately, all the points above are being discussed in the national education dialog which have been running since April 2012. They have 9 priority fields which they ought to improve which are:

1. quality of teachers

2. quality of headmasters

3. quality of school

4. curriculum and its evaluation

5. multilingual proficiency

6. post-school opportunity

7. role of parents and community

8. knowledge resources in school and its effectiveness

9. teaching methods and administrative structure

This could be the biggest project MOE has embarked since Penyata Razak in 1956 and Rahman Talib Report in 1960.

On that note, I do hope the MOE will reinstate the PPSMI after reviewing the youtube video below.

Thank you.

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28 Mei, 2012

Buktikan Keikhlasan Dengan Satu Sekolah Untuk Semua Kaum

Pengerusi Parti Tindakan Demokratik (DAP), Karpal Singh mengumumkan hasrat untuk mengangkat seorang bukan Melayu sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia sekiranya Pakatan Rakyat (PR) memenangi Pilihan Raya Umum Ke-13 (PRU-13).

Kenyataan Karpal sebenarnya tidaklah mengejutkan sangat. Malahan hasrat DAP sememangnya konsisten dengan perjuangan mereka sejak dari dahulu lagi hinggalah ke hari ini. DAP tidak pernah memadamkan gagasan yang diperjuangkan sekian lamanya iaitu Malaysian Malaysia.

Ini berlainan dengan Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS). PAS selaku ‘sahabat karib’ DAP mudah lemah semangat apabila disergah. Herdikan tegas DAP terhadap PAS menyebabkan parti yang ada perkataan Islam dalam nama parti mereka itu membuang gagasan mereka — Negara Islam PAS dibuang lalu diganti dengan Negara Berkebajikan.

Itu sedikit coretan buat para sahabat yang berada dalam PAS untuk bermuhasabah.

Kita balik semula kepada kisah DAP dengan hasrat mahu menjadi PM. Kebetulan penulis baru sahaja selesai membelek dan membaca akhbar Mingguan Malaysia sebentar tadi. Sebelah siangnya tidak ada masa kerana menghadiri undangan majlis perkahwinan.

Penulis tertarik dengan wawancara khas berhubung isu ini yang mana penulis fikir sesuai dikongsi bersama oleh para pembaca. Wawancara bekas Hakim Mahkamah Rayuan, Datuk Mohd Noor Abdullah. Penulis senada dengan beliau dan menyokong Satu Sekolah Untuk Semua [KLIK SINI].

Berikut penulis perturunkan wawancara penuh Mingguan Malaysia (27 Mei 2012) tersebut seperti di bawah:

Buktikan keikhlasan

MUKADIMAH

BARU-baru ini timbul isu yang dibangkitkan oleh Pengerusi DAP, Karpal Singh yang mahu memastikan bukan Melayu dilantik sebagai Perdana Menteri. Kata-kata beliau menimbulkan polemik yang pelbagai.

Banyak NGO Melayu menyanggah sikap Karpal ini apatah lagi beliau ada menyebut ‘selagi hidup beliau akan terus berjuang untuk memastikan bukan Melayu menyandang jawatan Perdana Menteri’.

Untuk mendapatkan penjelasan lanjut wartawan Mingguan Malaysia HAFIZAHRIL HAMID telah mewawancara bekas Hakim Mahkamah Rayuan, DATUK MOHD NOOR ABDULLAH pada Jumaat lepas.

Ujar beliau walaupun perkara ini tidak termaktub di dalam Perlembagaan namun secara hakikatnya ia adalah sesuatu yang mustahil untuk dilakukan.

Beliau turut menyanggah Karpal dengan berkata ‘kita buat satu sekolah untuk semua kaum di satu bumbung. Semua orang bersekolah di situ dan orang Melayu akan menerima orang Cina atau India bukan lagi sebagai orang India tetapi orang Malaysia’.

Ujarnya, dengan demikian mungkin tidak mustahil orang bukan Melayu boleh menjadi Perdana Menteri kerana kita berintegrasi sejak kecil maka kita sudah tentu mengenali hati budi, budaya mereka dengan baik.

WAWANCARA

MINGGUAN: Bagaimana Datuk melihat isu bolehkah Perdana Menteri Malaysia terdiri dari orang bukan Melayu?

MOHD NOOR: Pertamanya saya ingin bercakap tentang perkara ini daripada sudut undang-undang. Yang di-Pertuan Agong merupakan raja yang memerintah negara ini dalam erti kata lain kuasa pemerintahan terletak kepada Agong. Yang menjalankan kuasa pemerintahan adalah jemaah menteri yang mana pengerusinya adalah Perdana Menteri. Jemaah menteri ini dilantik oleh Agong termasuklah Perdana Menteri yang turut dilantik oleh beliau. Ini kerana mereka ini dilantik untuk menjalankan tugas-tugas yang diamanahkan oleh Agong. Bagaimana Agong melantik Perdana Menteri dan Kabinetnya? Agong hendaklah melantik seorang Perdana Menteri dari kalangan ahli Dewan Rakyat yang pada pertimbangannya mungkin mendapat suara majoriti dari ahli Dewan Rakyat. Agong melantik Perdana Menteri melalui cara tadi dengan syarat dia bukan warganegara melalui proses naturalization. Apa yang saya maksudkan tentang naturalization ini adalah mengenai tiga cara untuk menjadi rakyat negara ini. Pertama melalui kuatkuasa undang-undang, kedua pendaftaran dan satu lagi naturalization. Ini dimaksud di mana warga asing yang kaya dan mahu menjadikan Malaysia sebagai rumah keduanya namun mereka ini tidak ada hak sebagai rakyat negara ini. Di sini tidak ada disebut syarat seorang Perdana Menteri perlulah terdiri daripada orang Melayu dan Islam. Maka di sini bolehlah Agong melantik Perdana Menteri asalkan dia bukan warganegara secara naturalization.

MINGGUAN: Jadi dari sudut Perlembagaan perkara ini dibenarkan?

MOHD NOOR: Saya mahu tegaskan di sini juga bahawa perkara ini bukan sewenang-wenangnya boleh berlaku. Ini kerana seorang Perdana Menteri mestilah mendapat sokongan majoriti di Dewan Rakyat. Bagaimana kita katakan ia boleh mendapat sokongan majoriti jika ahli Dewan Rakyat majoriti orang Melayu beragama Islam. Ini kecualilah jika ada orang Melayu yang mahu menyokong orang bukan Melayu menjadi Perdana Menteri. Oleh itu memang kalau kita lihat dari sudut undang-undang ianya boleh berlaku tetapi kenyataan atau hakikatnya saya katakan tidak boleh berlaku. Kenapa saya bertegas mengatakan tidak, pertama adalah kerana negara ini adalah negara Islam. Kedua, Agong pula adalah Ketua Agama Islam. Oleh itu Agong berhak melantik Perdana Menteri menurut budi bicaranya sendiri dan bukan atas nasihat. Walaupun Perlembagaan kata bahawa sesiapa yang mendapat majoriti, namun pada pertimbangannya orang bukan Melayu tidak mendapat majoriti tetapi orang lain, maka Agong boleh menolak orang bukan Melayu daripada dilantik menjadi Perdana Menteri. Dalam soal negeri pula, setiap negeri Melayu meletakkan syarat Menteri Besar mesti terdiri daripada orang Melayu dan Islam manakala rakyat di negeri itu mesti patuh kepada kuatkuasa undang-undang.

MINGGUAN: Boleh terangkan lebih lanjut mengenai peranan Agong dalam hal menolak Perdana Menteri bukan Melayu?

MOHD NOOR: Kenapa Agong boleh menolak orang bukan Islam daripada menjadi Perdana Menteri? Mereka ini tidak berupaya untuk menasihatkan Agong mengenai urusan agama. Bagaimana mereka boleh menasihatkan Agong jika mereka tidak tahu dan faham tentang Islam? Perkara ini sudah tentu bertentangan atau tidak selari dengan peranan Agong sebagai Ketua Agama Islam. Ini kerana tugas Perdana Menteri adalah sebagai Memanda.

Bolehkah Perdana Menteri bukan Melayu Islam mampu mempertahankan negara dan kedudukan Islam di majlis antarabangsa terutamanya Pertubuhan Negara-Negara Islam (OIC)? Bagaimana Perdana Menteri bukan Islam ini mahu bercakap tentang Islam jika diri sendiri bukan orang Islam? Pemimpin dunia Islam ini bercakap mengenai perpaduan umat tetapi Perdana Menteri kita tidak tahu apa nak buat. Sudah tentu perkara sebegini tidak boleh dipikul oleh Perdana Menteri bukan Melayu dan Islam. Ini adalah perkara realiti yang saya nyatakan walaupun dari sudut undang-undang membenarkan.

Perkara ketiga yang saya mahu jelaskan, Presiden Amerika Syarikat (AS) Barack Obama, dipilih sebagai presiden kerana beliau mengaku dirinya adalah orang Amerika. Setidak-tidaknya beliau mengaku dirinya adalah African-American. Malangnya kita di sini mengaku diri sebagai Malaysian Chinese atau Malaysian Indian. Sepatutnya Chinese Malaysian atau Indian Malaysian. Ini menunjukkan mereka berbangga diri mempunyai serpihan daripada negara China dan tamadunnya. Namun sekarang ini, mereka berada di negara ini, golongan bukan Melayu mesti berintegrasi dengan masyarakat tempatan secara keseluruhan dan bukan berpuak-puak. Saya bagi contoh bekas Perdana Menteri Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra adalah keturunan Cina tetapi beliau boleh berintegrasi dengan penduduk tempatan, fasih bercakap bahasa Thai malah namanya juga menurut bahasa Thai.

MINGGUAN: Jadi Datuk melihat akibat keengganan mereka untuk berintegrasi tulen dengan masyarakat peribumi membantutkan mimpi mereka untuk menjadi Perdana Menteri?

MOHD NOOR: Jika hendak dibandingkan dengan orang bukan Melayu di negara ini, kebanyakan mereka belajar di sekolah jenis kebangsaan, dan berlanjutan hingga ke sekolah Cina swasta di peringkat menengah. Mereka tidak berintegrasi dengan pelajar-pelajar di sekolah kebangsaan. Pelajar-pelajar ini belajar Matematik dalam bahasa Cina, pelajaran Sejarah juga mengikut cara mereka. Kalau beginilah budaya, sifat dan naluri yang telah ditanam sejak kecil bolehkah mereka ini memimpin negara ini? Mereka ini telah dididik dengan semangat bangsa dan bahasa sejak peringkat tadika kemudian sekolah rendah hinggalah ke peringkat universiti. Adakah orang yang pendidikannya sebegini boleh menjadi seorang Perdana Menteri yang berkesan untuk semua warga di negara ini? Oleh itu saya mahu jelaskan bahawa secara praktiknya di negara ini orang Melayu belum sanggup menerima orang bukan Melayu menjadi Perdana Menteri jika begini keadaannya.

MINGGUAN: Karpal Singh ada mengatakan beliau akan menunggu dan terus memperjuangkan perkara ini. Bagaimana Datuk melihat tindakan beliau ini?

MOHD NOOR: Jawapan saya begini. Kita buat satu sekolah untuk semua kaum di satu bumbung. Semua orang bersekolah di situ dan orang Melayu akan menerima orang Cina atau India bukan lagi sebagai orang Cina atau India tetapi sebagai orang Malaysia. Mereka ini boleh duduk bersama makan, main bersama, Mereka ini boleh diberi jawatan penting sekolah seperti pengawas, ketua kelas tanpa mengira latar belakang kaum. Jika pelajar-pelajar ini boleh dipimpin oleh sesiapa tanpa mengira kaum, maka jawapan saya sudah tentu orang bukan Melayu boleh menjadi Perdana Menteri. Ini kerana setelah berintegrasi sejak kecil maka kita sudah tentu mengenali hati budi, budaya mereka dengan baik.

Satu perkara lagi, mungkin di kalangan parti pembangkang, Pas, DAP dan PKR, antara Pas dan PKR mungkin tidak timbul masalah sangat. Tetapi bagaimana pula DAP? Sudah tentu sukar, namun saya lihat jika terdapat seorang Cina Islam dalam DAP, saya rasa tidak timbul masalah untuk mereka menerima dia menjadi Perdana Menteri kerana dia berugama Islam. Malahan saya rasa orang UMNO pun mungkin akan menyokong perkara ini kerana melebihkan Islam dan bukan kaum.

Oleh: Kembara Politik

Berita Tahun Lepas – Wajib Bahasa Melayu

Kerajaan keluar pekeliling urusan rasmi penjawat awam mesti guna bahasa kebangsaan

DURIAN TUNGGAL: Semua penjawat awam diwajib menggunakan bahasa kebangsaan dalam segala urusan rasmi dan pentadbiran kerajaan termasuk ketika bermesyuarat, surat-menyurat atau seminar.

Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, berkata Kabinet bersetuju dengan keputusan itu bagi memantapkan peranan bahasa Melayu selain memperkasakannya sebagai bahasa ilmu.

“Bagi memastikan arahan ini dipatuhi, Pekeliling Perkhidmatan berkaitan Panduan Penggunaan Bahasa Kebangsaan Dalam Perkhidmatan Awam akan dikeluarkan oleh Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam,” katanya ketika melancarkan sambutan Bulan Bahasa Kebangsaan peringkat kebangsaan 2011 di Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) di sini, semalam.

Beliau berkata, sambutan Bulan Bahasa Kebangsaan adalah sebahagian daripada rantaian perjuangan yang panjang dalam memartabatkan kedudukan bahasa Melayu sebagai bahasa kebangsaan, bahasa rasmi, bahasa ilmu dan bahasa perpaduan di negara ini.

Muhyiddin yang juga Menteri Pelajaran turut meminta syarikat berkaitan kerajaan (GLC) memainkan peranan penting memperkasakan bahasa kebangsaan dalam segala urusan syarikat.

“GLC sewajarnya mempelopori usaha menyokong agenda nasional untuk memartabatkan bahasa kebangsaan dalam bidang berkaitan perbankan, kewangan, perdagangan, perniagaan, pembuatan dan lain-lain perkhidmatan,” katanya.
Katanya, Malaysia wajar mencontohi sikap beberapa negara maju dan sedang berkembang maju yang tidak meminggirkan bahasa kebangsaan masing-masing, meskipun masih mementingkan penguasaan bahasa Inggeris.

Malah, katanya, daripada lapan ekonomi gergasi dunia iaitu negara G7, dan China, hanya tiga negara iaitu Amerika Syarikat, United Kingdom dan Kanada yang rakyatnya berbahasa Inggeris. Rakyat Kanada juga sebahagiannya berbahasa Perancis manakala di United Kingdom sebahagian rakyatnya berbahasa Welsh, Scottish dan Irish.

“Di Brazil, Russia, India dan China (BRIC) iaitu negara yang berada pada tahap kemajuan ekonomi paling rancak, hanya India tidak mengekalkan bahasa sendiri. Kebanyakan negara Nordik yang maju, juga mengekalkan bahasa masing-masing.

“Daripada empat negara Ekonomi Perindustrian Baru Asia Timur, hanya Singapura tidak mengekalkan bahasa ibunda. Jika kita teliti perkembangan negara-negara berkenaan, kita dapati bahasa Inggeris adalah bahasa penting tetapi bukanlah satu-satunya bahasa yang menjamin kemajuan.

“China tidak menjadikan bahasa Inggeris sebagai bahasa pengantar dalam sistem pendidikannya semata-mata kerana mahu meraih laba globalisasi. Mereka menyanjungi bahasa kebangsaan mereka dan menghormati bahasa kebangsaan negara lain,” katanya.

Sempena majlis itu, Pengarah Pusat Pengajian Melayu Universiti Pengajian Bahasa-Bahasa Asing Beijing (BFSU) China, Profesor Wu Zongyu dianugerahkan Tokoh Pejuang Bahasa Melayu Antarabangsa sekali gus menerima hadiah wang tunai RM50,000, watikah penghormatan negara dan buku terbitan Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP).

Hadir sama Menteri Penerangan, Komunikasi dan Kebudayaan, Datuk Seri Utama Dr Rais Yatim; Menteri Pengajian Tinggi, Datuk Seri Khaled Nordin; Exco kerajaan negeri mewakili Ketua Menteri, Datuk Gan Tian Loo dan Ketua Pengarah DBP, Datuk Termuzi Abdul Aziz.

Muhyiddin juga mengumumkan penyediaan dana kerajaan menerusi Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) sebanyak RM2 juta untuk menggalakkan penerbitan buku ilmiah sains dan teknologi bertaraf ilmu tinggi dalam bahasa Melayu.

Setiap penulis yang menghasilkan buku jenis berkenaan yang diterbitkan oleh DBP akan menerima ganjaran sebanyak RM20,000 selain bayaran royalti yang biasa diterima. DBP akan menentukan karya yang layak diterbitkan berdasarkan manuskrip dihantar dan memberi ganjaran kepada penulis berjaya.

Sementara itu, Rais berkata, menteri, timbalan menteri serta pemimpin pada peringkat negeri digalak bertutur dalam bahasa Melayu ketika menyampaikan ucapan di samping berusaha memberi pesanan ringkas mengenai kepentingan masyarakat mempertahankannya sebagai bahasa rasmi negara.

Multi bahasa?

Kerajaan beri keutamaan tingkat mutu capai bertaraf dunia: Muhyiddin

USAHA meningkatkan kualiti sistem pendidikan supaya bertaraf dunia menjadi keutamaan kerajaan bagi memacu Malaysia ke arah negara berpendapatan tinggi pada 2020, kata Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

Timbalan Perdana Menteri berkata, sistem pendidikan di sesebuah negara perlu terus berkembang untuk kekal bersaing dalam dunia yang sentiasa berubah selain berupaya memenuhi aspirasi negara.

“Sebagai pemimpin hari ini, menjadi tanggungjawab kerajaan dalam memastikan generasi muda hari ini dapat melengkapkan diri untuk menghadapi cabaran pada masa akan datang.

“Oleh itu, setiap kerajaan yang efektif perlu membabitkan semua sektor untuk bersama-sama memikul tanggungjawab dalam membantu menjayakan transformasi sistem pendidikan termasuk mengambil kira pandangan mereka dalam membentuk hala tuju pendidikan, ” katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian ketika menyampaikan ucaptama bertajuk Leading Across – How Do Effective Government Leaders Engange Across Sectors? pada Sidang Kemuncak Mentransformasikan Pendidikan (TES) anjuran Majlis Pelajaran Abu Dhabi (ADEC) di sini, semalam.

Persidangan yang julung kali diadakan itu dinaungi Putera Mahkota Abu Dhabi, Jeneral Sheikh Mohamed Zayed Al Nahyan yang juga Pengerusi ADEC merangkap Timbalan Ketua Pemerintah Angkatan Tentera Emiriah Arab Bersatu (UAE).
Kira-kira 200 pakar dalam bidang masing-masing termasuk pemimpin, ahli akademik dan penggiat dalam sektor swasta dijemput menghadiri sidang kemuncak berkenaan.

Selain Muhyiddin, turut menyampaikan ucaptama pada TES bekas Perdana Menteri Britain, Gordon Brown; bekas Presiden Finland, Tarja Halonen dan bekas Menteri Pelajaran Ireland, Mary Hanafin.

Muhyiddin yang turut berkongsi pengalaman Malaysia dalam membangunkan sistem pendidikan sejak mencapai kemerdekaan berkata, kerajaan perlu menangani pelbagai cabaran bagi melaksanakan program bersesuaian membabitkan semua pihak berkepentingan.

“Ketika ini, ada 400,000 guru, lebih lima juta pelajar di 10,000 sekolah dan 27 juta rakyat merangkumi pelbagai etnik, agama dan latar belakang sosial di Malaysia.

“Oleh itu, cabaran utama dalam menjayakan transformasi untuk mengimbangi dan mencari kesamaan di kalangan setiap pihak ini untuk melaksanakan program serta polisi bersesuaian,” katanya.

Sementara itu, pada majlis berasingan, beliau berkata, kerajaan sedang mengkaji kemampuan penguasaan pelbagai bahasa di kalangan murid bagi membolehkan generasi muda hari ini bersaing di peringkat antarabangsa.

“Kita sudah biasa dengan (pengajaran) dwibahasa di sekolah di negara ini dan kajian sedang dijalankan sama ada kita boleh menggalakkan pengajaran multi bahasa,” katanya kepada wartawan Malaysia sejurus melakukan lawatan ke Sekolah Al Mushrif di sini, kelmarin.

Is “SATU SEKOLAH” likely to happen under Najib?

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• PUTRAJAYA: The National Education Dialogue series which starts from today until July will allow Malaysians to give their views and suggestions on the education system.
• Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin urged the public to grab the opportunity to give their opinions on the system.
• “We are inviting you to give us responsible, rationale and constructive feedback to help strengthen our education system,” he said when launching the dialogue here on Sunday.
• The dialogue will be held nationwide until July.
• Muhyiddin said the public could also give their feedback via Facebook, Twitter and a dedicated website.

The biggest mistake we made…What perpaduan are we talking about?

 

Reforming Our Education System.

 

My last post (“DPM: Report on education system review in 3 months“) has attracted some perceptive comments. Thank you folks for all your comments. I am glad that many really clever folks read my Blog and take time to send in your comments. I think we all learn a lot from all your comments. There are plenty of people in our country who seem to have a grip on things. There is much hope for our country.

Till this morning, there were nine comments sent in about my “DPM: Report on education system review in 3 months” blog. I have regrouped those comments with similar content. When the comments are similar, it shows that the people have common fears or concerns. I hope the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education will take note. Finally, I have added my own comments as well (in brackets).

1. Anonymous said…Tuan Syed, Do our education system need any review ? only recently our EM/DPM stated that our education system is better than some of the most advanced countries in the world like UK, US. I think it is better not to waste money la, deficit is going to breach the statutory limit already. Tuesday, April 10, 2012 9:49:00 AM

2. Anonymous said… reportedly our education system ranked 14th place worldwide, beating US, UK and germany.. why sent children to oversea then..?? Tuesday, April 10, 2012 11:06:00 AM

(My comments : These are valid points. Why do we need to review our education system if our education system is better than the US, UK and such. Our education system is reportedly ranked 14^th worldwide, ahead of US, UK and even Germany. If we are so good, then why do we have to review the education system? Obviously then all these rankings are ‘syok sendiri’ and do not serve any useful purpose for us. Why do I say this? Because the Minister of Education cum DPM says we still have to review our education system.

And can the Minister of Education also please answer the following news report from The Star. If our Education System is better than the US, UK or Germany then how come no Malaysian high school graduates have qualified to enter Harvard University for the past two years?

No Malaysian in Harvard for second consecutive year

KUALA LUMPUR: For the second consecutive year, no Malaysian student has gained admission into Harvard University. Datuk Dr Goh Cheng Teik, who heads the selection panel that interviews students for undergraduate admission into the university, said this was due to the deteriorating quality of applicants from Malaysia.

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“I called the Harvard College Admissions Office and was told that although they received applications from Malaysian students, no one was shortlisted for interviews as they are not considered competitive enough,” he told The Star. Dr Goh said former SMK Damansara Jaya student Avinaash Subramaniam was the last Malaysian to be accepted into Harvard in 2010.

Not competitive enough? Kononnya kita lebih baik daripada Jerman, Amerika dan Britain, tapi dah dua tahun tak ada siapa pun anak Malaysia layak masuk Harvard. Can anyone explain this? Please don’t say this is a Jewish conspiracy. And please dont say, “So what?” We must measure ourselves against other people. That is what is meant by the word “measure” – we gauge one thing with another thing. If we just ‘syok sendiri’ that is not measuring.

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The key word is “competitive”. Our education system does not teach kids (especially those who do not know) how to learn to compete with the world.

The following five comments No. 3 – No. 7 all mention the appointment of Malaysia’s Robber Barons to the National Education System Evaluation Panel. No one seems to agree with the appointment of some of these goons and Robber Barons to an education system evaluation panel. I mean what exactly are their qualifications? Either they have ripped off millions and billions or they have closed one eye and allowed millions and billions get ripped off. And these are the folks we want on our National Educational System Evaluation Panel? Lucu juga. Here are the comments about them :

3. Anonymous said…I am concerned by the names from the corporate sector. Tak habis habis muka ni lagi ke? Tony Fernandez and Azman Mokhtar?? Would Education now be another avenue for them to make money? Rob from us poor people? Kalau BN kalah PRU13, don’t say we haven’t warned you. Monday, April 09, 2012 11:52:00 PM

4. Anonymous said…yikes….names in the last para – for role models ke ??????

Monday, April 09, 2012 11:11:00 PM

5. Anonymous said…What a stupid joke la DPM is doing. Sebagai menteri yang bertanggungjawab, biar ada taste la sikit.. carilah panelis sektor korporat dari kalangan tokoh yang takdak isu moral untuk kemaskan lagi sistem pendidikan kita yang pincang. Ada ka letak monyet-monyet yang tengah dok sakau dan kebas duit awam dari GLC yang depa diamanahkan jaga?

Suka sangat la beruk monyet ni dpt pengiktirafan untuk evaluate sistem, dan sistem yang akan disarankan nanti pastinya yang dapat memberi manfaat kewangan dan kekayaan untuk mereka. Itu jam, Tony F buka pula kolej low cost, lima tahun lepas tu dia CCF dgn universiti awam pulak.

 

Tengok apa jadi kat MAS, itu jugak nasib universiti awam esok.

Takkan la depa ni yang akan sumbangkan idea untuk set module dan silibus bagi hala tuju pendidikan. Ditakuti generasi akan datang di bawah sistem pendidikan ini nanti akan jadi genius dan berfikiran kreatif lalu menjadi prodigy depa, perompak dan penyamun yang pakai suit mahal. Bang Din, jangan la buat joke dekat pilihanraya ni, gelak terguling- guling saya dibuatnya.

FMZ Tuesday, April 10, 2012 1:07:00 AM

(My comment : Ouch !!)

6. Anonymous said…Why the heck Azman Mokhtar needs to be involved? Wt heck he knows about education? Business dah tak erti as if he is gonna bring great help and changes to the education system? Tuesday, April 10, 2012 9:25:00 AM

7. Anonymous said…same old story. The education system has gone thru a maze and the politicians found out they can not get out. and so pukul canang/tabla dan lion dance lah to distract the public from seeing who the culprits are LOL. Bodoh koja tapi pandai zapin politik..loncat sana loncat sini.

Why dont they give the public choices for eg. English, Malay medium and keep the vernacular schools intact. Forget this perpaduan thing because when Bolehland opened doors for IPTS and private schools, only the Poor Malays / Chinese / Indians and Indons remain in Government schools.

Why dont they solicit public opinion ? ala election ?

And what’s this nonsense of getting the aeroplane fella, the khazanah guy and others not related to eucation per se into the committee ? Baik panggil orang Jobstreet.com and employers association and the like. They can give eye-opening inputs…sheesh.

Jgn. lama sangat bodoh. Tak penat ke ? Monday, April 09, 2012 11:44:00 PM

8. Anonymous said… Start by bringing back PPSMI. Stop the bullshit that the majority of schools want Science and maths to be taught in BM – you didn’t ask the students or the teachers, you only polled the administrators. Bring back PPSMI, then start from there. Godfather Tuesday, April 10, 2012 10:38:00 AM

(My comments : This is a valid point by Godfather. Why didn’t the Ministry of Education poll the students, the teachers and the parents? Too many parents and also teachers say that they were never asked about the PPSMI. Personally I will not ask students because a 10 year old or 15 year old may not be in a position to know much about a good education system for this complicated, complex, multi racial country ie Malaysia. But I will definitely ask teachers and parents. I believe the book publishing lobby which makes a lot of money from publishing school books has a very big say in deciding the PPSMI issue. At the end of the day, it is politics which has influenced the abolishment of the PPSMI. We have pawned the future of our children for thirty pieces of duit timah. So why hasn’t the Ministry of Education conducted an honest survey among parents and school teachers if we should keep the PPSMI or not?)

Here is the final comment:

9. Moshe said… Alo Sayed, It is very good that the Education Minister is making a review on the education system thus far in this country. Perhaps we shall know the prevailing standard, its weaknesses, its potential in achieving national objectives and so forth.

Remember during our time the education system was more England oriented and that generation were very very proficient in speaking the language – English. Most of that generation is, are, was, were anglophiles irrespective of which creed or race they belonged. Hence mother tongue was left to the nationalist be it the Melayu, Cina( notoriously the dong ngong) or Tamil.

But yet that system integrate and bond us as truly Malaysian with minimal perjudices and we were not polarised nor differentiated by our race or background. As the record stands our education system then was excellent among the commonwealth member nations and we were neck to neck with Sinjapor in term of standard.

I supposed the Razak report and several other reports on Education has in a way led to the state of our education system as today.

But what angered me most is the dong ngong group who until today and since before merdeka, insisted that Chinese language be made at par with Bahasa Melayu and stood stubborn with chauvinistic demands that Chinese language be recognised so. The malaysian contitution as accepted by all races accept that bahasa Melayu as the national language of this country though others can used their respective mother tongues. But this dong ngong group refused vehemently to accept this and a majority of their product cannot nor fluent in the national language. This was made worst by DAP who are keen to incite disrespect with the use of mandarin instead of the official language – bahasa at a police station recently on the breast grappling allegations raised by Teresa Kok.

I believed if the chinese continues to discriminate and disparage the national education system, it would eventually lose support and it would be very difficult to progress in our national integration and development efforts.

Sinjapor banned chinese schools, it was easy for them as theirs is just and Island state but ours has shoreline that make our landmass seems to be a phallic symbol with the Island state shoreline resembling the obvious.

Nevertheless, the steps taken to review the education system is highly commendable. Syabas and after this we shall know where we stand.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012 12:27:00 PM

(My comments : Thank you Moshe. The Dong Zong are another bunch of hungry opportunists. They too represent the Chinese book publishers, just like the Dewan Bahasa goons often speak up for the Malay book publishers. They are all in it for the money – perpaduan all can go to hell.

I learnt something from a young 19 year old student recently. The boy said that in his school (where he is doing his Form 6), the Malays sit in one corner and speak Malay, the Chinese sit in one corner and speak Chinese and the Indians sit in one corner and speak Tamil. All three races cannot speak English. So now they do not communicate with each other at all.

 

Up to the 70s the education system was still very English based. I think the education system at that time produced very good and capable people who could compete and function not just in Malaysia but also internationally. Now in this 21st century, Malaysians are increasingly becoming jaguh kampong – they can only speak Malay, Chinese or Tamil. They cannot speak English much.

There is another point I learnt from the 19 year old student. It is becoming an absolute fact that we are now less united as a nation. We tried to use Bahasa Melayu as a uniting language – and we used the education system as a method to teach Bahasa Melayu. There were a couple of things that went wrong. First we called it Bahasa Malaysia. It is NOT Bahasa Malaysia. It is Bahasa Melayu.

Secondly, while we changed the system to almost completely Malay, we did a half baked job. We still allowed Chinese and Tamil schools to co-exist. Lee Kuan Yew banned Chinese and Tamil schools in Singapore in the 1970s. In Thailand there are no Chinese schools. In Indonesia there are no Chinese schools. But in Malaysia we allowed Chinese and Tamil schools to operate. This meant that the Malay language policy was only effective in the Government schools where the majority of the students were already Malay.

So exactly what perpaduan were we achieving by teaching in Malay to Malays in Government schools, teaching Chinese to Chinese in Chinese schools and teaching in Tamil to Tamils in Tamil schools? Perpaduan apa pula?

 

But the biggest mistake we made was we let the quality of teachers, the quality of teaching and the quality of education in general to really deteriorate in the majority of Government run schools. And that is why hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Indians ran away to Chinese and Tamil schools.

Up to the 1970s, Chinese school enrolment was very low. The huge majority of Chinese students went to Government schools (including the so called Missionary schools). But after the switch to the Malay language in the 1970s and the deterioration in the quality of education at Government schools, enrollment at Chinese and Tamil schools jumped by the hundreds of thousands.

And the Chinese schools also made a paradigm shift. They transformed themselves from being breeding grounds of Chinese secret societies, gangsterism and fertile recruiting grounds for the Communist Party of Malaya to become high performance schools which gave young Chinese strong discipline, exposure to hard work (tons of homework) and very tough standards to achieve.

 

Plus, the Chinese schools also vastly improved the teaching of the English language. Today, the Chinese schools employ some of the best English language teachers and Chinese school students speak very good English as well. And they are very strong in encouraging music, dance and other arts. As a result the Chinese community feels it is worthwhile to invest money in Chinese schools. Almost every Chinese school has airconditioned classrooms and has much resources – thanks to strong support from the Chinese community. If it is beneficial to them, they will support their high quality Chinese school system. It is as simple as that.

So can we blame the Chinese if they want to keep the Chinese schools? They want quality education and they are getting it from the Chinese schools. Kita nak marah pun tak kena target. We will be missing the point entirely. Menteri sendiri sudah cakap bahawa ‘our education system needs review’. Menteri sendiri tak konfiden with our education system.

Coming back to using Malay as a unifying language through the education system – well it has failed. If you want to argue this point, please go to Jalan Kuchai Lama and talk to any Chinese there. Or go to Kuala Lipis and talk to any Chinese or Indian there. Haram sepatah Melayu pun depa tak faham. Tapi dia boleh cari hidup, boleh kaya, ada rumah banglo, kereta besar dan ada duit. People can get along fine in life being whatever they are and speaking whatever language they want to speak. What perpaduan are we talking about?

This is where perhaps the English language can contribute some difference in Malaysia as a uniting factor. Its like this : a Malay will not want to speak broken Chinese to a Chinese. The Chinese will have the advantage because he is a native speaker. Plus the Malay feels that his language is superior to Chinese.

Likewise a Chinese will not want to speak broken Malay to a Malay. The Malay will have the advantage because he is a native speaker. Plus the Chinese feels that his language is superior to Malay. The same applies to the Indian, Iban etc.

But all races Chinese, Malay, Indian, Iban etc will not mind speaking English (especially broken English) because all are non-native speakers of English. English is foreign to all of us. And because English is the language of the world there is an acknowledgement that English is a very useful language. So while Tamils may not like to speak Chinese, or Chinese may not like to speak Malay – most everyone in Malaysia will not mind speaking English. I think we have overlooked this unifying strength of the English language for a diverse country like Malaysia. We must relook this angle as well.

The country should have a dual language system of education – Malay and English. Mathematics, Science and subjects like Economics, Accounting, Management should be taught in English. We have to keep up with the rest of the world.

Getting back to the deteriorating quality of the Government schools, we nailed the coffin shut when we injected an overdose of religion into our Government schools. School assembly started with baca doa, PIBG meetings began with baca Quran – as though our Government schools had become Madrassah Taliban Darul Uloom Haqqaniah aka “Suicide Bomber School”.

I think even the Taliban will be shocked at the amount of religious indoctrination in our Government schools. The guru agama (if they have sekolah pondok background, sijil tinggi agama background or some religious qualification then it is most likely that they are the least educated and the least qualified among the school teachers) can over rule a headmaster with a Master’s degree over many things in school. The guru agama can say that girls cannot play volleyball because it is a jahiliyah sport where girls will have to jump up and down and make the men excited.

The guru agama can organise qiyamul laili where students taking exams are made to believe that praying late into the night will earn them better grades. There are also cases of ‘guru agama’ who sell kismis ajaib to their students. Folks, I am so sorry to break this news to you but air jampi and kismis ajaib cannot make students score even half an A. Plus the Chinese and Indian kids also get 10As without even qiyamul laili.

The religious indoctrination is the final nail in the coffin for the Government education system in Malaysia. I hope that when Tan Sri Muhyuddin Yassin undertakes the review of the Education System, the Government will remove religious indoctrination in our school system.

Plus we cannot even be sure that what the religious teachers teach is 100% correct. Shiah kata lain, Salafi kata lain, Tarekat kata lain, Tableeg kata lain, Wahabi kata lain, Syafiee kata lain, Hanafi kata lain, Maliki kata lain. Semua lain-lain.

It is best to go back to the system used by our fathers and grandfathers – religion should be taught at home by parents to their children. (Kalau parents tak reti pasal agama, boleh hantar anak belajar dengan ustaz or ustazah or go to the surau, guna duit sendiri). And then most important of all, religion should stay at home. There is an overdose of religion in our public sphere.

Finally if we want to fully reform our Education System, we must pay very, very close attention to the quality of our teachers. I think this is another huge factor affecting our education system. The quality of our teachers.

Now, don’t get upset or get excited. I want to speak plainly here. If it hurts some peoples’ feelings I don’t know what to say but I think these are simple observations which I have seen with my own eyes.

Very often also teaching is a last choice option for SPM leavers who could not do anything better in life. So it is not by choice that many young people become teachers. It is by necessity. They have no other options. Even university graduates who become teachers often do so because they don’t have any other choice. After being turned down by JPA, PTD, GLC etc they may just try to get a job as a teacher. Some of the guys would also prefer ‘jadi Polis’ or ‘jadi Askar’ first before becoming cikgu. Its a last choice option.

Actually this should not be a problem at all. Not matter what their background, no matter whether they have a choice or no choice, it is our job to make sure that all our teachers are properly trained. But it is also important to detoxify teachers from any toxic ideas and toxic belief systems they may have with them which can infect their students.

Its like this – besides parents, especially mothers, it is the school teachers who should be the moving force to create a modern, dynamic, progressive and competitive nation. And especially in developing countries, teachers should be the main locomotives to modernise a society which is not yet modernised.

Therefore teachers should not only teach everything that is modern but teachers themselves should be modern, scientific and progressive. Kalau cikgu sekolah sendiri menjadi bejana pemikiran jumud, berbudaya yang ketinggalan zaman then how is the cikgu going to modernise his or her students? This is what is NOT happening in Malaysia.

Because you have teachers who come from all parts of the country, bringing with them whatever indoctrination was put inside their heads in the places where they come from.

If a teacher hails from a Kampong Memali type place, it is most likely that she will still be indoctrinated with the strong religious indoctrination that was or is prevalent there. Tudung mesti labuh, bahasa Inggeris bahasa kafir, musik itu mainan syaitan, perempuan tak boleh main volleyball and all the other backward, un-modern, unscientific indoctrination that you would expect from a place like a Memali. (Yes I know this is not an exactly 100% accurate description but I think you can understand what I mean).

The same goes for teachers who are from parts of the country that are still lagging behind the rest of the country or the rest of the world. People in those parts are still lagging behind (economically and socially) exactly because they are not scientific and not modern enough.

So if we have young teachers coming from these parts of the country we must make sure that these teachers leave behind those belief systems that made their communities lag behind the others in the first place. If we do not modernise the teacher from Memali, Bachok or Selama and we send them to teach in a school in Bangsar, pretty soon we will have a mini-Memali or a mini-Bachok even in Bangsar. I think this is happening already.

I am not saying that folks from Memali cannot become teachers. What I am saying is that if Memali is still Memali, it is because they are not modern, progressive or scientific enough. In conclusion, Memali or no, we have a duty to train our teachers and make sure that our teachers are as modern, progressive and scientific as possible – irrespective of where they came from.

Unfortunately I think our education system (referring especially to the Government schools) has gone quite in the opposite direction. Many of our teachers are not as modern, progressive or scientific.

If there is an overdose of religious, parochial and cultural indoctrination it means that teachers may not be the desired agents of progress and modernisation that we need to keep up with the 21^st century. Considering the huge influence they have on our kids, teachers can become agents of reverse indoctrination. Be careful.

Folks, this is the 21^st century already. Kalau tak percaya, please check your calendar. The Chinese schools are already aiming for the 22^nd century. The private schools and the International schools are also getting to the 22^nd century. The Gomen schools are heading towards the 7^th century. I think the Minister of Education knows the problem. That is why he says we have to review the education system, the 14th best education system in the world – better than US, UK and Germany.

 

 

APA SAJA TENTANG SEKOLAH CINA – ORANG MELAYU JANGAN KOMEN !

 

Kita Akan Pertahankan Sekolah Cina ! !

Kita akan pertahankan sekolah vernakular, walaupun jika ada sekolah yang kurang dari 10 murid. 

Negara ada 1800 sekolah cina dan tamil dan 41%  darinya tidak cukup murid tapi apapun KITA AKAN PERTAHANKAN ! 

– kira2 begitulah kata Muhyiddin TPM merangkap Menteri Pendidikan. The Star

Kalau ikut kata Najib tahun lepas. Jangan jadi ingrateful atau manusia yang tak reti nak berterimakasih jika kita menuntut sekolah vernakular dihapuskan. Do not be blind to history and be an ingrate.

Dap takde nak komen ker ? Nak ucap terimakasih ker ….?

Anwar dan Pas pula SENYAP jer dalam isu sekolah vernakular ini ? Selalunya dalam apajua isu mereka akan mengambil pendekatan yang berlawanan semata2 untuk mengekalkan status quo sebagai pembangkang ….. tapi peliknya dalam isu sekolah vernakular, sekolah cina terutamanya, SEMUA ORANG PAKAT SENYAP !

Saya ternanti2 bilakah akan muncul seorang pemimpin yang berani tampil kedepan memperjuangkan isu PERPADUAN NASIONAL dan SEMANGAT NASIONALISMA dalam konteks sistem pendidikan kita yang pelbagai ini.

TAK BOLEH BINCANG ISU ITU ! APA SAJA TENTANG SEKOLAH CINA  – ORANG MELAYU JANGAN KOMEN ! 


Anwar, Nik Aziz, Hadi, Mat Sabu, Mahfuz, Azmin, kira SEMUA pemimpin politik pembangkang bersetuju dengan UMNO dalam isu sekolah vernakular –  TAHNIAH ! !

Kita harus BANGGA kerana punya sistem pendidikan vernakular yang UNIK dalam dunia ! Hairan kenapa negara lain dalam dunia tidak terfikir akan perkara itu sebelum ini , ek ..

FOR NATION’S GOOD: Views sought from all quarters to improve education system

 

Muhyiddin: Education input vital

 

EDUCATORS, retired teachers, parents, alumni and all players in the country’s education sector are invited to give their input on how best to improve the nation’s education system.

This, according to Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin could be done during the nationwide national education dialogue series, which begins next month.

Muhyiddin, who is also education minister, said that input from various parties to improve further the country’s education system was important in ensuring schools remained competitive in facing global challenges.

“Since the past few decades, the country’s education system has seen improvements in various aspects. However, of late, global competitiveness has prompted us to look at reviewing the whole system to ensure a steady flow of quality human capital.

“We have to stay abreast of the global competition. For us to do this, we would need to have the best human capital and we need to start at the school level as to ensure the country’s progress is not hampered in the future.”

Muhyiddin said this at the Muar High School (MHS) 1Malaysia charity golf event organised by the MHS alumni and parent-teacher association, near here, yesterday.

The tournament was a fund-raiser to help the school buy a bus to transport pupils from rural areas in Muar and contribute to a welfare fund for the school.

One of the golf participants was Yang Dipertua Negeri Tun Mohd Khalil Yaakob.

Muhyiddin said the dialogue would take into account the views, recommendations and ideas from the various strata of society and stakeholders.

A panel has been tasked with explaining the initiative and to receive any proposal or memorandum concerning the subject.

Muhyiddin later contributed RM30,000 from the Tan Sri Muhyiddin Charity Golf Foundation to MHS towards the purchase of the bus.

Muhyiddin: Current education system not satisfactory, detailed proposal by end of year

By Diana Rose
drose@thestar.com.my

LAPOK: Malaysia’s current education system is in for a thorough review and the detailed proposals will be completed by year-end.

“I am not satisfied with our current education system. There are lots of thing that need to be done especially on the quality of education,” said Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin at SMK Tinjar, about 130km from Miri here yesterday.

“We need to have a total review of our education system in order to upgrade its quality.”

Addressing a crowd of about 2,000 people, the majority of whom are teachers and students, he said it was pertinent that the current education system be reviewed in order to produce qualified highly proficient human resources to fill in the 3.3mil jobs by 2020.

These jobs entail highly skilled and qualified human resources, said Muhyiddin, who is also Education Minister.

He said that last week, he tabled the initial findings of his ministry’s study on the education system and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak had supported the ministry’s initiative.

“We will table the complete detailed report by year-end,” he said, adding that the report would look into, among other things, producing quality teachers and finding ways to narrow the education gap between rural and urban areas and, above all, producing quality students who are creative, innovative and with high comprehension level.

“We don’t want rote learners. We need creative teachers to produce creative students who have high creativity, inovativeness, and comprehensive minds,” he said, adding that the proposal would also look into training teachers during school holidays.

Muhyiddin said the ministry had appointed nine working groups to look into various aspects of the study.

At the same time, they had hired a panel of international consultants to benchmark the standard of our education system so that it would be compatible with international standard.

He said once the study had been done, it would be followed by a series of national education dialogues with stakeholders throughout the country.

“This process will gather the voice of stakeholders and their opinions on how best to improve our education system,” Muhyiddin said.

“I would like education stakeholders in Sarawak to participate in the dialogues.”

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Memperkasakan Bahasa Kebangsaan

Dari lama PRIBUMI PERKASA NEGARA – Suara Perkasa (klik pautan artikel)

Tan Sri Muhyiddin Perkuat bahasa Kebangsaan.

Kuala Lumpur 11Mei2011: Perkasa mengucapkan tahniah kepada YB.Tim.Perdana Menteri yang baru baru ini menyarankan bahawa semua Majlis Rasmi akan dijalankan dalam Bahasa Melayu termasuk majlis Antarabangsa yang dianjurkan di dalam negara pada masa hadapan.

Ini berikutan dengan kenyataan YB Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin yang menyarankan agar Malaysia menganjurkan majlis acara global mengunakan bahasa kebangsaan, dengan mengambil contoh negara Indonisia yang mana Presidennya berbahasa Indonisia walaupun tuntuk siaran media antarabangsa.

“Sebagai contoh jelas beliau, Presiden Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono baru-baru ini menyampaikan ucapan dasar dalam bahasa Indonesia dan ia disiarkan oleh pihak media ke seluruh negara.” memetik kata Tim.Perdana Menteri.

Tan Sri Muhyiddin juga berkata beliau tidak nampak pelaksanaannya akan mendatangkan masalah besar jika segala kemudahan dan logistik yang diperlukan seperti menyediakan penterjemah dapat dilakukan bagi mengelakkan sebarang masalah.

Perkasa mengalu ngalukan saranan beliau walaupun boleh dikatakan telah lewat tapi belum terlambat untuk dimulakan. Perkasa sentiasa mahukan bahasa melayu diperkasakan kerana ianya Bahasa Kebangsaan, bahasa negara.

“Mengapa kita perlu gunakan bahasa asing dalam acara rasmi. Di Perancis, Cina atau Jepun mengutamakan bahasanya dahulu kemudian baru bahasa Inggeris sebagai bahasa kedua di dalam majlis majlis atau acara acara antarabangsa yang mereka anjurkan.” kata Setiausaha Agung Perkasa Sdr.Syed Hassan Syed Ali.

Syed Hassan seterusnya berkata,”Memperkasakan Bahasa Melayu adalah pejuangan Perkasa yang diletakkan di tempat ke dua dalam perjuangan dan matlamat penubuhan Perkasa dalam Perlembagaan Perkasa”.

“Perkasa bersyukur akhirnya ada juga seorang pemimpin Melayu mengeluarkan kenyataan begini. Perkasa juga berharap selepas ini dikuatkuasakan pula penggunaan bahasa Melayu semua majlis kerajaan dan swasta di tempat awam atau terbuka.” Kata Syed Hassan mengakhir kenyataan medianya sebentar tadi.

dan dari THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER (klik pautan artikel)

Muhyiddin: Malaysia mahu anjur acara global guna bahasa kebangsaan

May 11, 2011

Muhyiddin berkata beliau tidak nampak pelaksanaannya akan mendatangkan masalah besar jika segala kemudahan dan logistik yang diperlukan seperti menyediakan penterjemah dapat dilakukan bagi mengelakkan sebarang masalah.

Sebagai contoh jelas beliau, Presiden Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono baru-baru ini menyampaikan ucapan dasar dalam bahasa Indonesia dan ia disiarkan oleh pihak media ke seluruh negara.

‘‘Ia boleh dilakukan kerana di rantau Asean saja mungkin lebih separuh penduduk dapat memahami bahasa Indonesia dan bahasa Melayu.

‘‘Begitupun jika ia hendak dilakukan, mesti ada persediaan seperti dari segi penterjemah dan sebagainya, itupun saya tidak fikir akan menjadi satu masalah besar,” katanya dipetik Utusan Malaysia.

Mengenai cadangan supaya Malaysia membantu menghantar tenaga pengajar untuk mengajar bahasa Melayu bagi anak-anak warga Malaysia yang berada di luar negara, Muhyiddin (gambar) berkata, beliau akan meminta Ketua Pengarah Pelajaran dan Ketua Pengarah Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) untuk memikirkan pendekatan terbaik bagi melaksanakannya.

‘‘Mungkin kita boleh memberikan kursus kepada bakal tenaga pengajar yang ada di sini sebagai contoh dengan membawa mereka ke Malaysia atau kita menghantar tenaga pengajar Malaysia di kalangan guru mahir berbahasa Melayu ke sini,” katanya.

Menurut Muhyiddin, beliau memahami kebimbangan warga Malaysia di luar negara terhadap anak-anak mereka yang mungkin tidak dapat menguasai bahasa Melayu dengan baik apabila pulang ke tanah air kerana tidak berpeluang untuk mempelajari bahasa kebangsaan itu.

Sehubungan itu, jelas beliau, perkara tersebut akan dikaji terlebih dahulu bagi menentukan pendekatan yang paling sesuai untuk melaksanakannya dengan mengambil kira pelbagai aspek.