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What's WRONG With The Education System in Malaysia? - From A Student's Perspective
What's WRONG With The Education System in Malaysia? - From A Student's Perspective
are able to take these roles? Not so many. Based on my experience, most of the student leaders you
see in your school or networking events are comprised a very small number. Perhaps, they may be 1
out of 100 students? What I find it funny is that the student leaders in the various events are
actually the same group of people! These high motivated enthusiastic groups go for every kind of
event to get exposure. This is why the representatives from Ministry of Education always think that
most students are like the leaders, engaging most of the time. In fact, they are engaging the same
students most of the time. Take for another example, today you might see a student ambassador
from AIESEC in a GRADUAN career fair. After that, I can bet my 1 cent that you would most probably
see him in other career fair/networking event/startup event/random event etc. This is a good
sign, but what about the rest? We are now talking out of the average students, not the top 5 %. Most
of them would shun away from this kind of event, stay at home/hostel most of the time. The lazy
type (eg. my friends) would most probably demotivate you by giving excuses like Why do you go for
so many kind of events?, Stay at home chillax first! Not easy to get holiday on weekends-leh!, I
didnt meet my family for nearly whole semester. I miss them so I have to go back!, After
graduated you still can go-mah! and the list goes on. What happened after that? They feel scared
when lecturers point them to answer question. Especially those forum and networking events where
there will be a Q & A at the end of the session, not only the students, even the working adults would
tilt their heads down. This shows they are shy and not taking initiative to take up a leadership role
in asking questions. Who knows the answers from the questions would be an inspiring quote in the
future? That is how the legacy was born by the leaders.
Uninspiring Teachers
Anyway, I have found a random quote from the internet.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward
Speaking about teachers, teachers are noble and respectable. However, back to the quote, did
teachers ever inspire most of the students nowadays? Yeah, maybe a handful. Most of them, are like
the result of education system in Malaysia, teach according to the syllabus. They lack of empathy to
care more about the students. The good ones would be focused, while the bad ones would be
sidelined. Some would say Why getting yourself into troubles when your pay is the same before and
after? After all, teachers are now only known for rushing the exam syllabus. Where is the personal
connection between the students and the teachers? Why can it never be like the relationship
between the mentors and disciples? Let me ask you some questions:
1. When was the last time you had given a wishing card to them on Teachers Day?
2. Or for worse case, when was the last time you had visited your teachers after your
graduation?
Those days where teachers inspire were gone. Students are never appreciative with what the
inspiring teachers have done for them. They take everything for granted. Most would complain
about the teachers on they did not come to the class and finish the syllabus. Again, syllabus!? I
believe that every student should have an equal opportunity. It is the dedication of the teachers
who can make a difference. Frankly speaking, I had a hard time tutoring a student with bad results.
It really tested my patience to really get him understood. He did well after that (Thank God!)
Besides, teachers are also responsible for some kind of programs in school, for example
development programs (such as extra-curricular activities). These programs are usually deemed as
wasting time by the students. Same goes to my second point, unless they are forced, only the 1 %
highly motivated student leaders would volunteer to join these programs. Because students are only
taught that results are everything. The result slip is the only pathway to go through your next level
of education. Truth to be told, they would only realize the result slip is just an entrance to any level
of education, in secondary and tertiary education. After that, everything would start from 0. Why
dont I tell you everything would start from 0 after you land your first employment? Imagine your 15
16 years of education becomes negligible after your first job. Reality is hitting us hard, isnt it?
Therefore, inspiring teachers can really mold the leaders that we can see at the top of corporate
leaders.
Their verbs are weird (the word haben have in German is different conjugation for every
pronoun such as habe, hast, hat, haben)
Even plurals are not as straightforward (can you imagine the plural of Buch book is Bcher
books).
Although it seems hard for me, Germans are so used these. It is the same as our native languages.
We are so used to it, yet the foreigners are having tough time learning it. Do not wait for education
system to teach you how to speak English. It would never work! Take the initiative and learn English
on your own! Do not forget that where theres a will, theres WILL ALWAYS BE a way.
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I believe that education is the single most important activity there is. If there is good
education, then I think everything else takes care of itself, on every level: personal, family,
business, community, state, regional, and national levels. I have faith that most of our
problems - economic disasters, international and intercultural strife, and even climate
problems - can ultimately be solved by a well-educated populace. Education is the
cornerstone to growth and there are many reasons to study physics as part of a well-rounded
education.
Yesterday, President Obama gave a speech at Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis,
Tennessee, where he echoed some of my own thoughts on the matter. You can read the whole
speech or watch it on video, because it contains a lot of good stuff about the service provided
by teacher, and how education helps inspire you, but I'd like to focus now on some of his
words which I think are especially true of science and mathematics education:
According to some studies, becoming an expert at something takes 10,000 hours. If you
assume that a student is actually learning for 5 hours a day in school (a generous estimate for
many schools), 180 days a year, then 12 years of school results in 10,800 hours, but at what
are our students becoming experts?
One would hope that it's the general art of thinking, of analyzing ideas, of dissecting concepts
to discern their individual merits and flaws, of developing strategies for dealing with
problems, and of articulating clear opinions about these things. An education like that, to be
sure, requires discipline and will yield the benefits of character that President Obama outlined
in his speech
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