A Must Revamp Malaysian Education System

I wish the minister of education reads my blog. I don't have any followers but I feel some of my ideas work if not now maybe in the future.

Talking about education, the topic which is very close to my heart and I am sure to every parent. How to make all races in Malaysia united? I believe the language is the answer. Not just Bahasa Melayu but also Mandarin and Tamil. The Malays are proud of their BM, so are the Chinese and the Indians.
But our education system are what I consider NOT multilingual and therefore does not contribute to racial unification

We have the national schools, chinese schools and the tamil schools. Our children only learn their mother tounges . Lets keep English out of this first. Why not our school offers Mandarin and Tamil to all students. Make it compulsory for each student to take at least one extra language besides BM. As it is, the Malays only know BM but the chinese know BM and Mandarin, and the indians know BM and Tamil. The Malays lose out on this.

If our students takes another language, at least the Malays knows BM and Mandarin or Tamil, the Chinese knows BM and Mandarin or Tamil. And the Indians knows BM and Mandarin or Tamil. This scenario can materialised if we change the present national school curricular. Our students become not only bilingual but multilingual with English on the side. It is easier to teach them while they are still young like in kindergarten. By the time they finish high school....they will at least able to read newspapers of different language. Then perhaps all newspapers will be more careful of what they writes.

As for BM, the education department has to standardized it. Make it the same for all schools..no exception. Otherwise the national school students are marginalized since they have to take a tougher BM paper. And the Chinese feel they are marginalized because the government does not recognize their UEC for local universities. But the fact remains that to enter the local universities you must at least have a credit for your SPM papers. As it is the UEC BM paper is a lot easier than SPM BM papers. Standardized BM so no students can complain if they are not accepted to local universities.
Every student sits for the same paper. This way they are all on the same playing field.

We must do this. No question about it. When our students can converse in each others language...naturally they can easily become friends. With the present school system, the racial divides is the eventuality. If we go for this system, Malays will not have to send their children to chinese school to learn Mandarin.

Other than language, all students should go for moral studies or civic classes. The education department can include those lessons on ethic, bribery etc. Make books like Bimbingan Muslim, confucious studies etc as references for the moral or civic classes. Teach the children from kindergarten not to throw rubbish everywhere. Parents have to help in this to make our children whole in terms of moral. Kalau nak melentur buluh biarlah dari rebung.

I have no doubt that when all this replace the present system, no rakyat will feel that they are marginalized. Everybody takes the same papers so only the deserving can enter the university. Not because you are a Malay, Chinese or Indian. It is because you fill the requirement.