So, our government has made a decision, that is to revert the teaching of Maths and Science subjects back to BM. By doing that, we'll probably slow down our nation's Vision 2020. Imagine, whole bunch of local professionals that couldn't work along well with international counterparts, because of language barrier. How are we to compete in globalised market by then?
Thank God I was being raised up in KL city, where I've had oppotunity to speak English among my schoolmates, teachers and friends that converse well in English, too! Though I wouldn't say it was perfect English, with some granmatical error with the way we speak, we were still able to communicate well with foreigners from English speaking country. How about those from rural area? Are we gonna deprive them the chance to improve on their English?
Later on in my life, when I went on to further my studies at uni in Australia, gosh! I realised that there're so much to improve on the way I use English. The way I pronounce certain words, the way I construct the whole sentence. But I'm glad that I was able to eventually improve my English, by not being shy and mix around with the local as much as I could. With that, I was able to learn alot more things through them about their country, their culture. Let's put it this way, imagine, because you can able to speak their language well, you'll only able to find out things about thier country and culture through books, and miss out on the additional things from the locals. The same goes to any other field. Imagine a Malaysian Scientist that a learning a new technology from a developed country, what he/she'll get is only on the given instruction, but not the additional know-how from the other counterpart.
This is indeed a sad day in Malaysian history, where the government dicided that English is too tough for some and sacrifise the whole nation's future. MALAYSIA BOLEH! ..... not
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