...change...again

...watched on TV tonite the announcement made by Minister of Education that he is going to revamp the Malaysian education system...again...hmmm...it means more money would be invested in this new project...but as an ordinary people i'm anxiously waiting for the changes...becos like many of my colleagues, i also believe that our current education system doesn't work really well...the way we teach and the way students learn need to be changed...let’s hope and pray that whatever the new system is gonna be, it will be for the better...and it will sustain longer than the teaching of Science and Maths in English which has sadly lasted only for a few years...to become an innovative nation, Malaysia needs to produce innovative students who can challenge the normal way of doing things...we need to develop a system that would inculcate the culture of debriefing...one's ability to debrief oneself and also to debrief others...a systems that not only teach about what is right and what is wrong (memorizing) but more on the lessons to learn from what is right and what is wrong and how to do things better (critical thinking)...and whatever system that we adopt, we should focus on the substance rather than the form...providing facilities (form) alone without proper substance (proper teacher training and attitude towards teaching (teacher) and learning (student)) won't help achieve the education agenda...i guess many remember the failure of our smart schools system...tho i'm not sure about the success of our cluster schools system...similarly, announcing Malaysian Top Business Schools also don't make them top B-Schools in a true sense...so let’s be honest and put our political agenda behind...we should work in concert for the benefit of our nation...