The Mamak Speaks Again

Former premier Dr Mahathir today backed the proposal to introduce a single-stream school system in Malaysia, but lamented that the topic was still a taboo. “You cannot even talk about it (merging the three school systems) in this country,” said the 84-year-old former premier, adding that the Chinese educationists were “vehemently” against the idea. He cited
“They must be Chinese first, not Malaysian,”. Mahathir said that only Malaysia has the unique system of having different streams of education as other countries have only one stream despite having large migrant population. He cited United States, Canada and Australia as examples. He also pointed out that even Switzerland, which has three official languages, has an education system which provides for students to learn all three languages in the same school. He went on to say that is the reason why Malaysians cannot achieve unity!
Interesting that Mahathir is taking a swipe at MCA, wonder why? Anyway let’s ask ourselves whether the non-existence of one school system is the cause of disunity among the races or is it due to other reason such as government policies only meant for certain race? If only the government and its leader could wake up and see what they are doing to this beloved country in enhancing disunity! The 1 Malaysia concept will forever be a distant dream as long as this race based politics and partial affirmative policies are not eradicated.