Bahasa Melayu for teaching Science and Math and not Tamil or Mandarin

More people are giving their opinion over the government decision to maintain the teaching English in science and math subject. It true that English is the perfect language to be mastered if one want to understand the knowledge of math and science. First at all, i support the government policy toward science and math but later on after reading some blogs and forums in television, i find it this is not the right decision.

1. No or only few country around the world use a bilingual in separate teaching any subjects at school. Most of them use their official language to teach all school's subjects consistently. For example, Indonesia uses Bahasa Indonesia to teach all the school's subjects and their level of education far better than us. Japan and China also did a same thing and they have launched rockets to the space successfully.

2. It not about the Malay’s language heritages or rights but more on confusing the young school children and creating identity crisis and conflict for the future generation. I am the product of the previous frequent changing education policy by the government each time a new education minister taken the post. Now, we even don't know how to call our national language. Bahasa Malaysia or Bahasa Melayu still not yet agreed.

3. English literacy among the majority of the school students is low. Unless we put English as our national language, it can be considered to be use in teaching science and math. While Malay is the national language by constitution, don't dream that it will change a things where only little percentages of city school students benefited from this policy while most rural and small town has less access to the material and practical everyday usages.

4. Teaching English in science and math shown that the government doesn’t want to put more effort in improving the education system in long term. Short term solution such this will create a new gap among the English speaking and non English speaking further away.

5. I believe the government should teach math and science in the national language that is Malay. We Malaysian no longer live in India, China or British. To stick with mother tongue language is a step backwards to the nation and educational building. I don't see the Americans teach their children in other language separately unless only as second language or culture and heritage conservation.

6. English should be the main qualification to any government post to make sure all spectrum of Malaysian can speak and write well. It is easier to lure the donkey with a carrot than pushing his back to make it walking. If the government not to obsess with Malay only policy, we will not have this problem at the beginning.

7. Other mother tongue language such as mandarin, Tamil, kadazan and iban should be listed as a mandatory pass for second language and should available in any government school around the nation. Secular Chinese and mandarin school shouldn't take the government fund if they want to maintain their language and should turn to private fund.

8. The government should not interfere with the nation education system. Changes only can be approved by those elected qualified expert in their respective field. Education Minister who chooses to change any education policy should present their cases in a commission established to safe guard the system.

These point above need no expert to think and create. It is a straight to the point and making some sense that was applied at some developed country. We lived in a very complex and complicated society that still living in their world and illusion of their homeland heritage. Those who still in delusional with their homeland should know that we're no longer considered as their country man. We will be treated as an outsider no different than we as to those illegal immigrants to our country.

Sepintas Coretan

Ini kali pertama aku mencoret ayat dalam bahasa melayu dalam blog ini sejak ia dimulakan. Aku telah lama memikirkan untuk mengarang suratan dalam blog dalam bahasa melayu tetapi kebuntuan idea telah menyekat dan melewatkan keinginan tersebut. Bertapa susahnya untuk aku mengarang suratan ini dalam bahasa melayu sejak tidak menggunakan selama beberapa tahun dimana kebiasaanya aku mengarangan suratan dalam blog dalam bahasa inggeris.

Adalah menyedihkan sekiranya pembaca mengetahui bahawa aku telah dilatih dan pakar dalam bidang bahasa melayu sehingga taraf universiti dan lama tidak menggunakan ilmu yang dipelajari dalam kehidupan seharian. Kekurangan semangat dan motivasi merupakan alasan yang aku dapat berikan untuk menjelaskan segala kejadian ini. Oleh itu, amat sukar bagi aku memikirkan ayat-ayat yang sesuai dalam suratan blog yang pertama ini dan mengakui tahap kepakaran telah turun mendadak.

Belum aku putuskan apa yang akan dirangkumi dalam penulisan suratan blog dalam bahasa melayu. Dipikirkan ia akan mengenai sedikit coretan suara hati yang lebih bersifat peribadi yang tidak aku kisah meluahkan dalam blog ini. Setakat ini sahajalah mindaku dapat mengharungi kesengsaraan mengupas semula apa yang telah ditinggalkan selama beberapa tahun dan seterusnya mengharapkan lebih banyak coretan dalam bahasa melayu di hari yang akan datang.