Usually I try my best not to write on the same topic in this blog but the recent announcement by the government to scrap the PPSMI beginning 2013 is really disturbing my sound sleeps. Like many others, I had earlier posted my view on this topic few months back.

The stupid remark from our leader that English is still very much our focus but there are many ways to achieve the proficiency in the language instead of using it in the teaching of Science & Mathematics. At this point, i wish to give the leader my favorite Fcuk shirt!  The main reason of PPSMI is to allow direct learning of Science & Mathematics,not the language itself. And why bother harping on these 2 subjects, other subjects are still remained being taught in the national language, not enough kah?

My dearest readers, I want you to know who are the traitors of our next generations in this issue,definitely not BN alone!

It is the NGOs like GAPENA, GMP and Dong Jiao Zong who are the main culprits….

Their arguments provided to the Ministry are:

- protect the status of Bahasa Malaysia and mother tongue
- many students will fail the exams
- people learn best in their mother tongue
- teachers lack proficiency in English

and my answers to the reasons are simply pui……pui….pui….pui! (Sorry for my rough language though i can give very constructive solutions to above,just like many others like you)

I challenge the government to allow a people REFERENDUM to be held for this and let us-the majority to decide on the direction.

In fact, former PM-Tun Ma already started a poll on this decision. Pls see updated resut:

The poll on the right

85% of more than 60,000 people disagreed with this decision,after taking more than 3 months of contemplation. How many members do GAPENA, GMP and Dong Jiao Zong have? Let’s go to the street and compare since earlier they had staged a street protest to the palace.

Let me also give you the views of the commentators who commented to Tun Ma’s blog post on this topic:

By Bombardier on July 9, 2009 3:49 PM

Anyone who agrees to the government’s stupid decision, please, take this one challenge… Walk into any computer store and ask for “Pemacu Cakera Keras Luaran” and see if the store hand can understand what then heck you’re asking for. Should you see them scratching their head for it, tell them it’s an “External Hard Drive” and compare the difference yourself.

We can change everything into Bahasa Malaysia, but one thing remains a fact… No one gives jack about it. As ayahanda Tun has clearly elaborated, we’ve got nothing for anyone else to find it important enough to learn our language. English is the business language. Deal with it.

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By kamal ahmad on July 9, 2009 4:03 PM

“In a solid fuel integrated rocket ramjet (SFIRR) the solid fuel is cast along the outer wall of the ramcombustor. In this case fuel injection is through ablation of the propellant by the hot compressed air from the intake(s). An aft mixer may be used to improve combustion efficiency. SFIRRs are preferred over LFRJs for some applications because of the simplicity of the fuel supply but only when the throttling requirements are minimal i.e. when variations in altitude or Mach number are limited. In a ducted rocket a solid fuel gas generator produces a hot fuel-rich gas which is burnt in the ramcombustor with the compressed air supplied by the intake(s). The flow of gas improves the mixing of the fuel and air and increases total pressure recovery. In a Throttleable Ducted Rocket (TDR), also known as a Variable Flow Ducted Rocket (VFDR), a valve allows the gas generator exhaust to be throttled allowing control of the thrust. Unlike an LFRJ solid propellant ramjets cannot flameout. The ducted rocket sits somewhere between the simplicity of the SFRJ and the unlimited throttleability of the LFRJ.”

– Can DBP translate that simple wiki paragraph on RAM Jet Engines? People are now busy working on a Mach 4.5 RAM Jets for commercial applications and yet for Malaysian future engineers in aeronautics and aviation, they must first get a translated copy from DBP in order to work things out. Competitive edge for their future job market? Technology edge for Malaysia? K-economy? All just lip service and all prospect gone for good now. That’s how history would record things to be.

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By zairen on July 9, 2009 4:33 PM

We may have to ask ourselves, how many of the ‘products’ of UITM could speak English? I work and deal with them daily as most of my staff are from UITM. I could safely conclude that technically they are good or at least no bad as they are from technical schools in the first place (they may even outperform UM in some technical subjects), but their command of English is extremely poor. At first, they would struggle and try to us English when they speak to you, but both sides would give up eventually. It’s fine if we are doing business in the country, but it would be a problem if we deal with foreigners. Chinese and Indian would show their strengths when the need of English appears. Frankly speaking, very few Chinese or Indian speak good English, but at least they can speak. In fact everybody knows why most of the Malays could not command English but nobody wants to admit it. The fact is simple, when two Malays meet, naturally they would use the Malay language. But when two Chinese or Indian meet, they would rather use English. In this country the English speaking environment is there for Chinese and Indian but not the Malays.

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By jts on July 10, 2009 2:52 PM

I understand from a very reliable source that a Minister is transferring his Primary 5 son from a kebangsaan school to an international school next month. What a coincidence. This same Minister has spoken in defence of the reversal of the Math & Science language policy. Cabinet Ministers must be made to face the direct consequences of the decisions they make on education in Malaysia. They are only qualified to make such decisions if their own children are schooled in the Malaysian curriculum. My question to them is :- if they sincerely believe that they have been making the right decisions in the best interest of Malaysian children, to ensure that our education system sufficiently equips our kids for global challenges why then are their kids in international schools or educated overseas?

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By Dotsolo on July 10, 2009 3:34 PM

When studying carbon NANOTUBES by TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (TEM) it is essential to be aware that the CARBON FILMS commonly used to support samples often contain FULLERENE-LIKE STRUCTURES such as carbon nanotubes as CONTAMINANTS.

can anybody help me translate the words typed in capitals .

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Guys, I  can’t post all the comments over here because is simply too many. There are 595 comments within 24 hours after the post is published and the poll responses have reached >60,000

I urge you go to Tun Ma’s blog and give your vote as he will go n kacau the goverment again! Pls click on this link:

http://chedet.co.cc/chedetblog/2009/07/the-teaching-of-maths-and-scie.html