The Education

I am seeing people changing in Malaysia with the increase of technology, The Internet. One of the main factor i believe that the opposition manage to get more vote, is because of Internet. Last time I learn from a teacher that before we went into a school, our mind is like shooting all directions and that is when we are innovative and open to anything. But after going into school, our mind all is heading only one direction. Why? I believe this is the Malaysian culture and the educational systems. They train you to be follower more than being a leader. Don't question the teacher, they are always right.

Do you remember when the teacher ask you to copy and draw exactly what the text book write and draw out all those picture into your exercise book?(This is secondary we are talking about). I wonder what is the use of that? But if you look at it from a further view, you can see that it is training you not to ask, just draw and follow. You see those are what blocking our innovation. The time use to copy those stuff that even a no brainer can do, can be use to do better stuff.

Another obvious lesson will be Moral, as if when you memorize all the point, you will have great Moral. All the subjects that they teach are mostly memory base. Once you have a good memory, you have no problem in any of it. No worries, you don't need to use your brains. How many of you still remember all those point. Do you think that it help you anyway in your life? Isn't it better to teach something more meaningful than just copy and paste. We have computer to do that for god sake.

Without the internet, most of here will still be thinking that the world is a very small place and we will just follow and don't complain to the goverment no matter how bad the government is like those slave in olden time. When i went to Singapore, i saw one of my cousin secondary textbook, and most of the question inside is our malaysia college level question. I felt so stupid compare to my cousin who is only in secondary level. A big country such as Malaysia when compare to a small country like Singapore, and it lose to it near every aspect. Economy, Education, and Citizen wellfare.