Removing English for Science & Math - who win now?

Though this government MOE decision does not really related to our Internet Education discussion, but I just like to write a few lines to share my view as a Malaysian. The vision of using English to teach Science/Math is always right. Maybe the timing of doing it is not right. Maybe the English teaching resource is not sufficient. Maybe... a lot of maybe but this is one policy rolled out by Dr Mahathir that has my full support.

English medium books/publication/magazine/etc in Science/Math is extensive and easily available in shops and internet. US/Euro are still the key driver of science/technology trend/direction. You need to know english to tap into this mega information source else you will be out-dated and left out. Our future generation focus will be Innovation, Innovation & Innovation. That is why, Dr M says that reversal of this policy will make Malaysian stupid... more stupid to be exact. Frankly speaking, the execution is flaw and nothing to do with policy.

6 years of bad implementation with many reasons and under a lot of clan/society pressure to change. So, MOH has to change to reflect they listen to people now. How about using mother tongue language in Primary for Science/Math, Malay in Secondary and then English in University? Everyone happy? No, not us. I believe our kids will have difficulty to cope with it especially with current batch of primary/secondary students (affect most). And also believe that this kind of education system is going to be the first in the world. Yeah, first of the worst one. I bet, this will change again in coming 6 years.....

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