At the outset, education has been a subject very close to my
heart that I have been bitching about for years now. All the ills
of society is the by-product of a failed education system. A lack
of education brings forth the bums, cons and in some cases,
politicians! So to look sharp and smart, the privileged ones can
today "buy" a piece of paper accreditation to frame on his/her
wall and perhaps secure positions of great power, even if it is
from a Christian University that churns out degrees and
theologians to become Christian pastors and priests. And when
I say education, I mean a good education in math, science,
fields of technology and in the world's preferred language, the
Queen's English! Nothing less.
*My 2sens hereinafter in red parenthesis.
MAJU REFUTES NUTP CLAIM THAT SEKOLAH
KEBANGSAAN HAS NOT BECOME TOO RELIGIOUS
National Union of Teaching Profession (NUTP) president
Aminuddin Awang has been quoted by Utusan Malaysia on 15
September 2020 rejecting claims that national public schools are
“too Islamic”.
This fellow Aminuddin, was the Deputy Secretary General in the
2017-2021 season and now has by-passed his then Secretary
General Harry Tan Huat Hock and his then Deputy President
Chan Thye Choon to become President! Were those two
non-Malays not good enough to be President? See chart from
November 2017 (here) Therein you can see the rot in leap-frogging patronage based on race and religion. But this trend of patronage
as been going on since the time of that corrupt old racist
MahaFiraun who came to power in 1982.So who started this shit?
Still living in denial about race and religion?
MAJU cannot believe that NUTP as represented by its above
president can make such a claim whilst at the same time citing a
litany of religious practices that were unheard of in Malaysian schools
during the 70s. Examples include: reading doa during exams,
maulidur rasul celebration, playing and competing in nasyid, Quran
readings, and story-telling of prophets.
All this is happening even in Christian missionary schools today,
such as SK Convent and La Salle which once used to have a
chapel for solitary prayers and catered for all faiths. Again the
elitists and ultras will choose to send their kids to expansive
private schools in faraway lands where English is the medium
for teaching and communicating. Again I say the privileged ones
need not worry about the state of our education system, right?
There are many more blatant examples such as having ceramah
by external ustazs, practicing circling the kaabah with a model in
the school itself in some places, mandatory group prayer sessions
at various times in such schools including the constant encouraged
peer and teacher pressures for religiosity on the students.
Today I cannot understand the need for ALL schools to employ an
ustaz but the bigger worry is when ustazs are invited from war-torn
countries and are allowed to preach to young children in our
multicultural schools. A very dangerous appeal if they might
implant the wrong ideas in restless young minds.
Dec 21st 2018 news reported, "The government will revise the
curriculum in national schools as they have become “religious
schools”, says Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad”.
The failed "visionary" who thought developing the country with
mega structure and bridges would bring us to 1st. world status
BUT instead completely dragged us into the 3rd. world desert-
Arab country status. Developing people and investing in building
good and decent citizens is what gets you to be 1st. world status,
not mega buildings
It is not MAJU that made this assertion, it is the ex Prime Minister
of about 26 years who made this iron-clad claim. He should know.
He has seen the devolution of Malaysian education throughout his
tenure, after, and more. A change from a progressive and
science-led education system up until the 80s, into one that is
now enveloped with uncompromising and overt Islamic religiosity.
The creator of this Islamic educational module himself did jack-shit
in that 22 months of a "second-chance" he had to redeem himself
as he has failed so badly even as 2020 has dawned on us and is
almost "Game Over".for this blurred 2020 Vision of a corrupt and
frustrated old man.
Here we have the Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin
wanting Malaysia to produce Nobel Prize winners but the environment
in the majority of our schools does not nurture such ambitions. There
is no Nobel Prize in Religion. And there is no developed nation that
attained such status via religion. They all get there through science,
as the data clearly shows.
This man Moo is still in Lalaland lah if he is thinking of a Nobel
Prize. A man who dares not to reprimand his rabid mongrel from
PAS who by an unholy pact for political survival, spew venom on
Holy books of other faiths and cause so much suspicion and anger
instead of unity. This man is also so afraid of loosing votes by
taking the popular stand of self-denial. A slick and sick man with a
limited shelf-life. Sometimes I feel sorry for this man who is actually
powerless against his political partners lurking in the shadows to
stab his back and abandon him when the hammer falls.
The fact is that from Year 1 to Year 3, our students spend on
average 96 hours per year on Pendidikan Islam including Tasmik.
Science on the other hand gets 48 hours per year. If we count
Bahasa Arab - which the majority of the students are being
pressured to take - that would add up to a whopping 176 hours
per year on Islamic studies alone. The numbers for Year 4 to
Year 6 does not change much with science increased to 64
hours vs 96 hours for religious subjects. These data is based
on Ministry of Education own facts.
Today simple Malay words have been given the Arab flavour,
whilst the Arabs are turning to English to escape from their
3rd. world leanings. This camel herder language is not
represented in the world stage. It will embarrass the
Arabs even if they did not speak good English on
international platforms. So when did our "educators" go wrong
by abandoning good old Indonesian/Portuguese/Sanskrit
Bahasa Melayu for Arab- tainted Bahasa Malaysia? Our
Bahasa language used to be a checkered language before
and we were doing just fine, until 1982.
So just looking at the curriculum, and putting aside the religious
environment that the national schools tend to cultivate, what is
the NUTP president talking about? What holistic education is
that? This is called cognitive dissonance. And when the
president of the teacher's union has this in his head, you know
that our children's education is in deep trouble.
Pray tell me if a bunch of kopiah and tudung clad "educators"
sitting in the committee of teachers would ever deny their political
masters urgent need to fish for votes by manipulating and
championing the rural folks wishes? This social-engineering of
our diverse multi-cultural fabric has been in motion for a long time
by the MahaFiraun was his then blue-eyed side-kick and
partner-in-crime Anwar Ibrahim!
We imbue interest in subjects through the quality and quantity of
time spent on them when they are young. Is it any wonder that
today we have a proliferation of ustaz and ustazah, and a majority
Malay youth population so religiously bent on judgement instead
of engineers and scientists that can contribute to Malaysia being
a developed Nation.
If all these "religious scholars" teach only about the pleasures in
the after-life, then, why don't they just die en masse now and go
to heaven and enjoy their wines and their virgins of their heart's
desires that they so fervently preach about? We have all these
clowns to the left of us and jokers to the right, still here we are,
the non-Malay Malaysians, stuck in the middle with you. Cheers!
MAJU rests its case.
Siti Kasim
Founder
Malaysian Action for Justice and Unity
