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I really dislike how the Malaysian education system works. I prefer it to be more assignment like. So much hate to it made me look up on some interesting stuffs about it on the net. As Martin said, make education relevant!

Secondary

…Shortly after the release of the 2005 SPM results in March 2006, the Education Ministry announced it was considering reforming the SPM system due to what was perceived as over-emphasis on As. Local educators appeared responsive to the suggestion, with one professor at the University of Malaya deploring university students who could not write letters, debate, or understand footnoting. He complained that “They don’t understand what I am saying. … I cannot communicate with them.” He claimed that “Before 1957 (the year of independence), school heroes were not those with 8As or 9As, they were the great debaters, those good in drama, in sport, and those leading the Scouts and Girl Guides.” A former Education Director-General, Murad Mohd Noor, agreed, saying that “The rat race now begins at Standard 6 with the UPSR, with the competition resulting in parents forcing their children to attend private tuition.” He also expressed dismay at the prevalence of students taking 15 or 16 subjects for the SPM, calling it “unnecessary”.

The tuition phenomenon

The prevalence of tuition centres in urban areas of Malaysia is also an issue of growing concern. Students in urban areas generally go to tuition centres, due to pressure by parents to do well or unable to cope up with the standard of the current education. The tuition industry is in itself extremely large, and was reported to be worth about RM 4 billion. There is also the problem where tuition centres offer ‘crash courses’ for most of the central exams where they offer ‘leaked questions’. These leaked questions are usually obtained by unscrupulous means, but so far the control of leaked questions by the government has not been reasonable, with an average of one or two leak(s) every year.

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“I am not insisting to attend this function and neither am I insisting to be a special guest at the function. I am telling you – students, graduates, working adults and parents, if you choose to remain silent and succumb to threats like this, there is little hope left for Malaysia. It could be your daughter/son who’s in my place. Remember the young ones are watching. Some are being brain-washed. Some are now confused – here you have a 29 year old assemblyman who is speaking up against corruption for the sake of our nation and they’re told that this is not a welcoming figure and that she is not accepted at school or private functions…”

“Our education system is trying to breed students who cannot think for themselves, issue threats when everything else fails….” 

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