I don’t get it…it doesn’t make any sense to me…why must the government make History a compulsory pass subject for SPM? Why not English, Maths or Science? Don’t get me wrong…I’m not saying that History is not important, it’s just seems unnecessary. Of course, we must learn the past of our forefathers…but I feel History will only drive the students to learn the subject by memorizing the dates, personalities & events instead of generating creative, critical, logical & reasonable thinking. Besides, our history syllabus is not inclusive enough…it tends to favor a particular religious civilization. If it’s gonna be 1Malaysia, then it should be all-encompassing.
On another hand; we have to improve the standard of our English language among our younger generation. If we are to be globally competitive, then we can't run away from the need for a higher standard of English. That's not saying we should not also be fluent in our very own mother tongues. How I wish I could speak other languages as well. Imagine if all of our kids today could fluently converse in English, Malay, Mandarin and Tamil or Hindi or even Arabic! How powerful that would be! But we must be masters at English. How strong we would be! What a work force we would be able to present to the globalised world. This is so important for us to prosper as a nation and to enhance our competitive work force that is taken seriously around the world.
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Yeah...I read about that, making history compulsory. Is it even going to work, seeing how they "teach" us in secondary school anyway?
History is always written by the victors and will always be biased, but there is a way to maintain some level of objectivity in historiographical writings....but I don't think that Malaysian history textbooks will be anything like that!!!
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