The very foundation of our earnestness as proud Malaysians is screwed prematurely in our education system. I'm talking of the bastardisation of our history. Since when or why should Islamic history take prominence in a plural society as ours ? Were we not once a part of a Hindu empire ? Or were we not once ruled by the English ? We can deny that too, I'm sure, no ? ( here )
Fine, we don't want to live in our not too long ago colonial master's shadow nor in the distant past but to twist and screw and distort history to today's' kids in school is like verbal masturbation ......you get a "shiok sendiri" mental ejaculation. You cannot control our thoughts or stretch a lie about what never really happened. Erasing the truth and planting seeds of lies can be compromised with hidden political agendas. Don't we all know that a lie, if audacious enough and repeated enough times, will be believed by the masses, said Goebbels, right ?
History is what victors decide what you must know and believe but to feed us with half-truths and fabricated bull-shit is a crime against truth itself. It is a sin. For God's sake, tell it as it should be told !
My generation learned with interest about the early cavemen, the Indus Valley civilisation, the French revolution, the silk route, Jesus, Buddha, Hinduism, Prophet Mohamad, the many battles of the world, about Greek Gods and the origin of the Olympics, the Roman empire, the English battles, the Russian empire, Mongolia and Temujin, the two great World Wars and also of a Hindu "runaway" prince from Palembang who founded Malacca.
What chance does a Form 5 or 6 student today know or has even heard of any of the above other then a Muslim prince founding Melaka ? And in 5 parts in 1 text-book too ! Zilch I'd say.
We didn't turn out so bad when it came to engaging in "worldly" conversations with anyone from anywhere in the world. We knew a little bit of a lot. Why did my generation do such a sinful wrong now ? Arrogance over ignorance ? Money over ethics ? Power over morals ? Or plain bastards ?
We also know now when we were students, we were never taught to research much, for the simple lack of electronic technology then, nor were we taught to question the notes the teachers taught kids through-out their teaching careers. Once in a while a rare teacher emerged with unorthodox teaching methods. Otherwise we repeated answers during exams verbatim to what was taught by teachers to garner marks and grades.
While we're on the subject of compromising teachers and for good measure........copy and paste the link below and enjoy this classic !
Now Jeffery Kitingan is quiting PKR Sabah. So is he actually quiting PKR Sabah and heading towards Zaid's AKIM or hereafter KITA or is he going to start another "off-shoot" fraction in Sabah ala Zaid ? What happens to Baru Bian in Sarawak now ?
Wikileaks seems to be the 3 syllable word political leaders past, present and wannabes dread or fear most.....these days !
The title above is what has secretly been nagging on the minds of every decent, self-respecting citizen in our country for a long time now.
Today I want to direct this post to all indigenous Sarawakians most especially those who have moved to the "Semenanjung" or the Peninsular and have lost touch with the reality back home.
Indeed Samy Vellu prevented a "political conspiracy" within MIC ?? Hahaha....this is diverting the issue too far from the obvious truth. Samy was the "conspiracy" himself ! ( see here )
