The education system in Malaysia – a joke!

Recently I’ve been following up with the debate about whether or not the english language paper be made a mandatory pass in the SPM. Click here. I suppose it’s been years since I sat for my SPM, i have forgotten much about its passing criteria. Regardless, SPM is the equivalent of the british Cambridge GCE O levels exam, a public examination that all students need to pass to graduate high shool.

I was appalled to learn that the english paper was in fact not a mandatory subject to pass. Where as the Bahasa Malaysia (malay language) is the paper required to pass in order to obtain the certificate. What a joke! Lets just put it this way. Out of curiosity I did a little research on the english language and I learned that according to wikipedia, it is a language spoken in 53 countries, UN, EU, NATO, NAFTA, Commenwealth of Nations bringing that to a whopping total of about 1.8 billion in population. As for the Malay language, I believe only the people in Malaysia and Singapore understand the language, also, maybe some in the southern thailand, myanmar, brunei. Even indonesia has a completely different version of that language.

It is obvious our education system is a complete buffoon! And the ministers are complaining about the country experiencing a brain drain and etc….What right do they have to complain when they’re sitting around “goyang kaki” and swindling the rakyat’s coffers! This move to make english a mandatory to pass subject is long overdue. Good gracious, has anyone seen some of the interviews by Al Jazeera with a few of the malaysian ministers? It’s a complete joke. They could not answer a simple basic question in english!! And we put these people to head the governmental ministries?!?!  Oh well…only in Malaysia…only in Malaysia.