Such a study environment

As we know,the westerner are more creative then easterner,why ?How could this happend?Let’s back to our basic question,that is the difference education system between east and west.I’m not going to discuss this topic as a educationalist but just as a student here.

I had the free education provide by our government since standard 1 to form 3(Form 4&5 i’m studying in private school).What my feeling is i feel like i’m a Study Machine.We had train as As getter.Once you have the most As then you’re success.For instance,when SPM results release,all the papers will publish who is the most As getter in Malaysia,or which school have the most As getter,why why why our papers will only concern about this,nobody is concern about those students who had bad result.Because they (the writers)also trained as As getter.Not only papers,but also parents,teacher and also Education Ministry,like students are born for As.

Actually we have to back to our basic question,What is study?My answer is ,study is the way to let us got the knowledge and learn.Yes that is all.It is simply.But what happened to our country is study is for As.If u go to ask a student :”how could it happended?",the mostly will answer you is :”oh,because the text book is taught like that.” or they cannot give you a proper anwser,yes it is happening around us.Why ,cause they want to get As and ”don’t have much time” to think about WHY.

Actually ,what i m suggest to our Minister is try to reform our education system from pursuiting As to "Indenpendent Thinking".Why?Because we are not able to control or teach every students to avoid something bad like fighting or smoking but we can train they to ”Indenpendent Thinking",let them to able differentiate reality.And also ”Indenpendent Thinking" is good for our science subjects,the teacher should ask "why" but not only keep talking in front,just let the student to ”think”.From think ,then we only could discover something new ,have you discover something new from your text book?(Yes maybe you will discover your text book is make by paper)

Hence,what we have to do is just throw away the viewpoint of study is for As,and just try to think indepandent but not just follow the text book. For Wawasan 2020,now is the proper time to let our young generation to ”think” because they will be the leader on that time,and i also don’t hope our’s future leader dominate our’s country follow what the text books said,it is very terribe.We must have the people like Tun Mahathir or Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to lead our country and ensure our country can always flourish.

June 18th, 2006 at 11:57 am