Catch them doing something right

Instead.... she began to teach.....

HIT THIS LINK

(especially if you are in teaching profession)

and then.... enjoy the music...

Our schools...?

Our schools... for the young, tender ones.......

Mother: How was your first day at school?

Son: It was all right except for some men called "Teacher" who kept spoiling all our fun!

You may want to continue reading these too...

• Our Early Education System
• Mengejar Tuhan "A"
• Sharing : The Making of 100% Fool by Worshipping "A" Scoring
• Straight "A"s student ?

 

Straight "A"s student ?

When education system 'designed' for straight A's students..... 

not for "living the life" nor "building the nation"....

Sharing : The Making of 100% Fool by Worshipping "A" Scoring

The Education System That Worships Scoring of "A"s

(almost to the exclusion of everything else)

One day, a very scholarly gentleman, while travelling in Malaysia, decided to go across big river, so he asked one of the village people who owned a small boat, if he would take him, to this request the boatman agreed. As they started, the sun became obscured by dark clouds, and as the river was large, the gentleman realised that the crossing would take some time. So he started a conversation with the boatman.

"Did you know that the sun is approximately 93,000,000miles away, and yet it has provided heat and light, throughout the universe since time immemorial, baring that, if it was to shift, even a fraction of an inch out of its orbit, there would be total devastation?"

The boatman replied; "My dear sir, I am just a simple man who has had no education, there is no way I could know such information."

"Then" said the gentleman "You are 25% fool. A fool never scores an 'A'".

Some time passed, and as they were coming to the ½ way mark, the thunder began to rumble.

"Did you know notice the lightening, just before the rumbling sound?". The gentleman asked. He continued. "Do you know how that phenomenon occurs?"

"No sir." replied the boatman.

"Its occurrence is due to the expansion of rapidly heated air," the gentleman exclaimed, "You are 50% fool. A fool never scores an 'A'"

About ¾ of the way the weather completely changed. It became dark and started to rain heavily and started filling up the little boat with water clearly making it difficult for the boatman. But the gentleman insisted in questioning.

"Do you know how we get rain?". "No sir," was the reply.

"The sun evaporates water from the sea, this gets stored in the clouds which then travel by be wind power, then when they become full, it lets all the water go, over the land. That's how we get rain."

"You are 75% fool. A fool never scores an 'A'" Said the gentleman, now feeling very smug.

The gentleman was suddenly interrupted from his basqueing by a loud cry from the boatman, "Oh no! I have lost my oar and now the water is about to capsize the boat, we have no alternative but to swim the remainder of the way, luckily for us it is not very far."

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"But I can't swim!!!" cried the gentleman now seeing his own imminent death.

"Then my dear sir, you are 100% fool. You score an 'F' in life!!!" said the boatman.

Mengejar Tuhan "A"

Pagi ini (10/02/2011), seperti kebiasaannya, semasa menghantar anak-anak ke sekolah, saya mendengar perbualan di radio stesen FlyFM.

Topik perbincangan ringkas adalah mengenai seorang pelajar yang mati, jatuh dari tingkat 2 bangunan sekolah (Berita Kosmo DI SINI).

Salah seorang dari DJ stesen radio mencerita bahawa BEFRIENDER telah menerima beratus-ratus email setiap hari, yang kebanyakannya dari golongan muda (teenagers) yang menyatakan masalah "kemurungan" (depression). Lebihkurang 30% dari ini adalah berkaitan dengan tekanan yang dihadapi dalam pembelajaran (education stress).

Sistem Pendidikan kita telah menjadi begitu "ultra-kiasu" di mana tuhan pendidikan yang begitu disembah adalah untuk "Mendapat A". Sekiranya boleh, "A" dalam semua matapelajaran dan sebanyak mana matapelajaran yang mungkin. Tidak ada bezanya dengan penyembahan tuhan yang satu lagi, iaitu "tuhan duit". Segala-gala mengenai "duit", negara berpendapatan tinggi, kejar wang semuanya, tidak kiranya kalaupun nilai wang itu menjunam, asalkan dapat kaut wang dengan begitu banyak.

Di manakah telah kita lemparkan adab sopan, budaya murni? Ada sesiapa tahu tak makna "spirituality" dewasa ini? Sesuatu yang menarik, saya petik dari laman BEHIND THE VEIL:-

Someone says,

"I can't help feeding my family.

I have to work so hard to earn a living."
 

He can do without God,

but not without food;
 

he can do without Religion,
but not without idols.
 

Where is one who'll say,
"If I eat bread without awareness of God,
I will choke."

(Baca artikel sepenuhnya DI SINI)

Berbalik kepada sistem atau dasar pelajaran kita yang ada pada hari ini. Saya rasa dalam keghairahan mengejar "A", keadaan telah menjadi tunggang terbalik. Saya pernah mendengar aduan-aduan guru-guru sekolah yang mengatakan sekarang ini prestasi sekolah diukur dengan pencapaian akademik. Masing-masing akan membuat apa saja untuk mencapai 100% "A" dalam semua matapelajaran sesebuah peperiksaan utama. Kalau zaman saya dahulu, kita cuba mencapai 100% "lulus" dan hanya ada sebilangan saja, (best student) satu atau dua pelajar sahaja yang mencapai 100% "A" dalam semua matapelajaran.

Keadaan menjadi semakin "teruk" apabila insentif  (selalunya berbentuk kewangan) diberikan bagi sekolah-sekolah/pengetua yang berjaya mencapai pencapaian yang "tinggi" ini sehingga ada insiden di mana murid-murid "dibantu" supaya dapat menjawab dengan betul semasa peperiksaan. Cara "bantuan" adalah cara yang tidak jujur seperti "soalan bocor", "memberi jawapan semasa pelajar sedang menjawap soalan peperiksaan" dan lain-lain lagi. Betul atau tidak, anda selidiki sendiri sekiranya berminat.

Tetapi pokoknya, sistem pendidikan telah menjadi bercelaru akibat ketaksuban mengejar "A", sepertimana "kualiti" masyarakat yang menjadi semakin gelojoh, tamak, tidak mengenal erti adab sopan dalam mengejar wang ringgit.

Memang betul pencapaian akademik yang tinggi itu adalah menjadi harapan ramai (seperti juga mengaut wang dengan banyak). Tetapi setinggi mana, sesuci mana "kualiti" pencapaian itu? Adakah kita bangga dengan mempunyai seorang yang kaya wang ringgit, tetapi diperolehi dengan hasil menjual dadah? memperdagangkan tubuh batang manusia? Adakah kita bangga mempunyai seorang pelajar yang dikatakan cerdik kerana mendapat 20 As, tetapi hendak masak mee maggi pun tak pandai nak nyalakan api dapur?

Kalau dahulu, pelajar-pelajar yang agak lemah akan mengikuti kelas tambahan apabila waktu peperiksaan menghampiri, kini kita dapati pelajar-pelajar yang cerdik pula menghadiri tuition after tuition, siang malam, langsung kesuntukan masa untuk bermain dan bergaul sesama rakan. Manakala yang agak lemah pula tidak berapa dipedulikan sangat. Hopeless untuk dapat "A", mungkin.

Cerita orang terjun bangunan kerana "masalah" kewangan telah kerap kita dengar, apalagi dengan budaya "ah long" yang ada kini. Kini kematian kerana "tekanan pelajaran" semakin meningkat, nampaknya.

Adalah amat wajar sekali bagi pihak kerajaan (terutama DS Najib) dan kementerian pendidikan untuk membuka sedikit kelopak mata masing-masing terhadap saranan KEMPEN SSS yang mahukan dasar pendidikan dikaji dan digubal semula. Sefahaman saya, mereka-mereka di KEMPEN SSS tersebut mahukan sebuah dasar/akta pendidikan yang:-

• Dapat memperbetulkan semula pelanggaran yang jelas terhadap Artikel 152 Perlembagaan Persekutuan yang membabitkan institusi-institusi pendidikan yang menggunakan bahasa pengantar asing yang juga bertentangan dengan Akta Bahasa Kebangsaan
• Hasil kerajaan (melalui pembayaran cukai) adalah salah untuk digunakan bagi membiayai institusi-institusi yang lebih bersifat "persendirian (private)" dari bersifat "kebangsaan". Ini adalah penyalahgunaan kuasa oleh pemimpin-pemimpin. Hasil ini patut digunakan memperelokkan/menambah baik lagi sekolah-sekolah kebangsaan yang kini nampaknya lebih dianaktirikan, bukannya ditabur kepada sekolah-sekolah "anti-nasional" bagi memancing undi.
• Suatu sistem pendidikan yang lebih "holistik", "bermoral", beradab", "berjiwa kebangsaan", "patriotik" patut diwujudkan bagi mengganti sistem pendidikan mengejar tuhan "A" serta langsung tidak membina identiti negara dan tidak bersatu memupuk perpaduan dan pergaulan di antara masyarakat. Bak kata Tagore, "To build a nation, build a school"

Sila layari laman KEMPEN SSS dan baca memorandum mereka kepada Menteri Pelajaran mengenai saranan kajian semula sistem pendidikan. Saya rasa saranan ini adalah amat wajar dan telah sampai masanya untuk diteliti dengan serius apabila sistem pendidikan yang ada kini telah menjadi semakin tunggang langgang, lebih-lebih lagi dengan DS Najib sendiri begitu tegar membela kewujudan sekolah-sekolah vernakular yang terang-terangan melanggar Artikel 152 Perlembagaan Persekutuan dan Akta Bahasa. Pendek kata, sekolah-sekolah ini adalah SEKOLAH-SEKOLAH HARAM.

Marilah kita bersama-sama menyuburkan semangat kebangsaan kita, semangat patriotik kita terhadap negara kita, bangsa kita dan bahasa kita. Ini negara MALAYSIA. "Satu Bangsa, Satu Negara, Satu Bahasa", mana mungkin "Unity in diversity". Kita suburkan semangat ini dengan menandatangi petisyen ini. SILA KLIK DI SINI.

NEM's Lethal Dose - The More Derserving Is Getting Less !

Talking about access to higher education.

But before that, let me paste this image below, obtained from SATU SEKOLAH UNTUK SEMUA merdeka's message.

Now let's talk about access to higher education.

I'd like to re-quote Tun Dr Mahathir's paragraphs, which I have earlier quoted at my other blog, HERE (...LISTED!!!)

"...In education whereas there is about 60% bumiputera in the Government universities, there are less than 10% in the private universities. And there are more private universities, university colleges and colleges than there are public (Government) universities. Even the 10% bumiputera are there because of scholarships by MARA. Take the scholarships away and there would be practically none.

Why is it that the focus is only on what is done by the Government? If the bumiputera in Government universities should be reduced, then the bumiputera in the private universities should be increased. Or else meritocracy would reduce the number of bumiputeras getting university education. Or is it the intention to deny bumiputeras higher education? ..."

Government decided to allow for private colleges and universities to be set up. They can twin with recognised foreign universities and should issue their diplomas and degrees. The reason for allowing private institutions of higher learning is to reduce cost of tertiary education so that the parents who could not afford to send their children abroad can have access to foreign qualification from local private institutions. You can guess who are the beneficiaries of this Government policy..."

** The underlined above are my editings. The full text of the above can be read, HERE.

From Tun Dr. Mahathir's above, we can see that:-

• There are less Bumiputeras having access to higher education since private education institutions  outnumbered the Government's instutions. There are much less than 10% Bumiputera's enrollment in these private institutions. Had it not because of MARA's scholarship, the enrollment of Bumiputera in these private institutions would practically become NIL.

• Denying more Bumiputera from having access to higher education is true when places in public (government) education institutions for Bumiputera are reduced in order to allow more spaces to the non-Bumiputera; while at the same time, without scholarship, the Bumiputera can only dream to enrol in private institutions. And with the replacement of NEP by NEM, the Bumiputera will be further "condemned". HIDUP TUAH! said in his blog, "...analogous to the result of a surgical operation: the operation (NEM) succeeded but the patient (Malays) died!..." The Bumiputera/Malays, not only being systematically denied of more access to higher educations by having to give up the places in public education institutions, but also being are being systematically injected with lethal dose of NEM. 

•  It looks like the non-Bumiputera has been enjoying MORE "scholarships" than the Bumiputera when the education funds (or rather cost discounts) are given out  indirectly. This is when Government's policy allows the setting up of many private institutions with twinning programs, allowing a lower cost of educations since students need not go overseas to further their studies. And it needs no further saying when Tun Dr Mahathir wrote, "...guess who are the beneficiaries of this Government policy..." 

This blogger feels the need to amplify what Tun Dr. Mahathir had written above after having read the blog entry by satD of Pure Shiite, "Scholarships for UEC??? More Chinese Voter Goodies", a HISTORIC move by the current government. When SATU SEKOLAH UNTUK SEMUA calls for the liberalisation of education system, to be free from anti-national elements, the current government under DS Najib's administration continues to support the national elements of The People's Republic of Communist China in this very country called Malaysia. In few other respects including this, Ahmad Maslan should have called many others instead of  Ibrahim Ali alone, to read the small book of 1-Malaysia concept.

In the Merdeka message by SATU SEKOLAH UNTUK SEMUA, they wrote:-

"...Kalaulah bahasa penghantar sudahpun mengagungkan bahasa Negara Cina Komunis, apa lagi aspek-aspek lain dalam pendidikan sekolah vernakular tersebut? Setidak-tidaknya, mereka membelakangi penggunaaan Bahasa Kebangsaan yang sedia termaktub di dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan dan Akta Bahasa. Ini boleh dikategorikan sebagai bersifat anti-nasional..."

Go HERE to read their Merdeka's message and to learn how the campaign movement started.

This blogger cannot understand DS Najib:-

• He said he took political risk, when he was the Minister of Education before, in defending vernacular schools and at one time claimed that BN was a "sahabat sejati pendidikan sekolah cina". Wonder whether UMNO and MIC would claim the same, or DS Najib only spoke in his personal capacity, rather than BN's chairman. The great affection DS Najib seems to have toward vernacular schools has earned him an unofficial title of "Bapak Vernakular"

• DS Najib's NEM is infact a lethal dose which finally will kill the Malays as pointed out by Hidup Tuah! Datuk Ibrahim Ali of Pribumi Perkasa had said it to DS Najib's face, "Melayu Sudah Tolak MEB". Does DS Najib still want to maintain his apologetic stance and finally become the enemy of the Malays and Bumiputera? Did DS Najib ever learn?

It is perplexing to note that DS Najib continues to "romanticise" a particular minority, but loud-mouth group while keep "hurting" the majority, but more patient group. To achieve what? votes? Looks like DS Najib is not going to inject NEM's lethal dose to the Malays and Bumiputera alone, but also to himself !!! This country is being ruined !!!

It is a wonder whether DS Najib is able to see anything below the surface when he embarks into a certain policy. Does he even see the surface himself, or someone else like his advisors, made him 'see' the surface of things? Let alone things under the surface. DS Najib definitely fails and not very far-sighted (does he even has a sight at all?) in this respect.

Given the above circumstances, this blogger finds that there is a firm basis to support the call for REVOLUTION, first mentioned, HERE, by Kijang Mas of Demi Negara and subsequently called for, HERE. 

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"Folks, we need a revolution. No, not of the French or Russian or Romanian kinds, but a revolution within our inner selves, and collectively as a society, as members of the real Anak Bangsa Malaysia"

Come ! Let us all support this call for Kijang Mas of Demi Negara!

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