Before anything, let me obviously state that we am not pro-Bahasa Melayu or even pro-English. we am pro-Quality.
It is unhappy to review a labels put upon me from my prior 3 articles, from a type that can make a lady glow to those who tried to psycho-analyze me. But someway we have influenced a people into discu! ssion, s o that is a single reason to smile.
A couple of arguments have caught my eyes. Do allow me to put down my 2 cents worth of perspective here:
(1) - English, or some-more precisely a usage of English as a center of instruction replacing Bahasa Melayu, is not a magic bullet that will solve a complaint of a decaying preparation system. Let us be transparent upon that. we have had comments arguing a state of a teachers, a syllabus, a methodology - all in usual agreement of a decaying state but it baffles me that these people would consider that upon returning English as center of instr! uction, all a problems will disband as well as we'll live happily ever after.
Really? Is that even remotely true? Is it someway a problematic teachers who can't learn in BM will now magically means to clear their subjects to a students if it is in English? Will a yawn-inducing syllabus spin exciting when we crack a denunciation switch from BM to English?
If that is so, my oh my, because have not we suspicion of it earlier. Perhaps it would have saved me from dozing off in History category when we was behind in school. Should have told a teacher "Sorry Sir/Ma'am, it's not! you, it 's a language. Please learn us in English so that we won't nap off in your class".
To me, it does not make a difference a den! unciatio n we use to broach hold - as prolonged as peculiarity is there, it will gleam through.
Now with DAP throwing their await behind a PPSMI movement, it is appealing to see if a policy is re-instated - afterwards what? Will all those relatives baying for blood lapse to their routine hold up feeling self-satisfied as well as patting themselves during a behind as well as exclamating 'Problem solved!'?
If yes, as well as presumption this organisation is a infancy (it is not!) afterwards we empathize a republic for a destiny that we have been streamer to. If not, afterwards my subject to these people - because repair something trivial when from a begin we could have focused a effort upon something some-more significant, similar to fixing a damaged preparation complement itself?
Since DAP has state their stand in this matter, we would similar to to call upon Pakatan Rakyat to state your usual stand as well as additionally come out with a masterplan detailing how it intends to repair a preparation complement once they gain power. Education is a supportive make a difference that warrants attention from these politicians, to illustrate it is ! usually fai r that they produce something similar to a 'Buku Jingga' upon these issues.
(2) - Again, we am not pro-BM or pro-English. So greatfully give up from throwing all those racist assumptions my way.
I am additionally a endangered primogenitor from a center category family living in a suburbs. we have been lucky to embrace peculiarity English guidance knowledge from well-developed teachers behind in propagandize in laid-back Kuala Kangsar. And no, this was no English-medium school. we was Science-inclined, to illustrate resulting in my career in IT with an MNC that values my capability to verbalise as well as write good! English as well as a value that we move to my work as an IT professional.
(3) - The explicit as well as substantial idea that ridicules Bahasa Melayu as a Bahasa Kebangsaan really astounds me. There were those pea! ceful to drop BM altogether, arguing a denunciation has nothing to contribute in this globalized era, whilst some have shown an alarming undisguised disgust during a denunciation altogether!. Some were glorifying English similar to it's a Queen-Mother herself talking, all a whilst creation a argument in substandard, damaged English! Also those who in their loathing for UMNO seem ready to drop all as well as anything even sparsely related to a celebration - as a result their perspective that BM has to go.
Do a relatives know that by asking their children to choose English over BM it instills in them a idea that a Bahasa Kebangsaan is inadequate, a diseased denunciation - something that deserves no respect as well as appreciation? Thus intentionally or unknowingly these relatives have become a separator to this nation's drive for unity.
Please stop poisoning a young minds.
Again, a crux of their argument is that not vocalization in BM does not make them less Malaysian. We! ll fello w Malaysians - what does make we Malaysian? It is a roti canai as well as teh tarik we have each morning? That income tax we pay? Please urge discuss it as well as share with me what creates we Malaysian, when there so may things that separates us - a religion we urge to, a schools a children attend, a sports that we play, a festivities we celebrate, a communities we stay in.
The list is endless.
Yes there have been those who have conduct to overpass a opening - we have Malays that play basketball, we have Chinese as well as Indian students in inhabitant schools, we go to open ho! uses to applaud with a other races, but after a game is finished, a propagandize bell rang as well as a open houses have been sealed - we absolutely lapse behind to a safe havens, retreating behind to a secular stereotypes in a joy of a own people.
Having a usual denunciation will in some approach overpass a chasm of secular polarization that we have today. The purpose of a single usual denunciation as a unifier in republ! ic build ing cannot be denied. It opens some-more room for interaction, some-more exchanges of thought, that will in spin leads to improved understanding as well as dispelling a myths, myths as well as prejudices that we have of a single another.
Please note that in a pre-independence Perlembagaan Rakyat drafted by PUTERA-AMCJA that were helmed by likes Ahmad Boestamam, Tan Cheng Lock as well as leaders from a MIC as well as other groups, it was stated a agreement for all opposite races to adopt 'Melayu' as their inhabitant entity as well as Bahasa Melayu as a inhabitant language!
Did we startle you? Sounds too good to be true, isn't it? Surely it could have saved us a con when filling up those supervision forms during a very least. If we do not hold me afterwards maybe a simple poke upon Google about PUTERA-AMCJA as well as Perlembagaan Rakyat would suffice.
Certainly these leaders from a nation's story were peaceful to sacrifice for a republic that during that point were not even formed yet. And all of them famous a significance a single inhabitant identity of a united people for a sake of a country.
It is disappointing to note how far we have drifted apart since then, after over 50 years of order as well as conquer rule by a stream statute party.
(4) - Those relatives who pronounced their kids will face a towering to climb when a teaching! of Scie nce as well as Mathematics earnings to Bahasa Melayu from English, a subject for we all - how pathetic is your kids' proficiency in BM? Because a approach we see it if your denunciation skills have been competent afterwards changing center would not be a problem. Do we mean to contend your kids who learned to do multiplications in English unexpected forgot all of it when it is altered to 'sifir darab'?
Reading my prior 3 articles, a single would have noted a usual thesis in all of them - a call for channeling all a efforts to remedy as well as repair a damaged inhabitant preparation system. It is important for us not to be sidetr! acked by red-herring issues such as a PPSMI brouhaha, whilst intensely demanding a rights as relatives of a school-going children as well as as citizens of this great nation.
- Feizrul Nor Nurbi reads Malaysia Chronicle
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