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| And what are we suppose to do about our education institutes?
I'm writing here with experience. Let me tell you now, Malaysian government schools are going down the drain. We tend to call ourselves "Malaysia bodoh" and I can see why. We Malaysians are not getting the education we deserve. Don't even think about facilities wise.
For my whole primary school education, I was in a government school. I guess things were pretty ok. Although I must say that the kiasu learning spirit was already present in primary school when we're suppose to be taking things easily. Kids of ages between 8-12 were already going for tuition. I hate the culture of going for tuition. Why should students go when everything that needs to be taught is suppose to be already taught in school? In other countries, students only attend tuition classes when they actually have a serious problem with a particular subject. But here we kiasu people are attending tuition for all subjects leaving kids with no time to do other things. Things like growing up and enjoying life. But actually the whole tuition life is not totally because of kiasu-ness. The lack of greatness from schools plays a factor. In fact, it's the main factor.
We go to school to study. Majority of us start off with the learning spirit. But due to the quality of teachers, we all just go down the drain. Let me state my case here.
After primary school I went on to a government secondary school. At first things were pretty fine I suppose. Nothing I couldn't live with. It was when I was in Form 2 things started getting worse. Firstly was the problem of teachers having meetings or courses during school hours. This would leave the class with no lesson. And let me tell you, this happened pretty often. Secondly, sometimes the teachers would be in the school but for some reason they wouldn't attend class. Again the class is left with no lesson. Thirdly, the teachers lack of interest. How are the students suppose to be interested when the teachers themselves aren't interested? The teachers just read and copy notes straight out from textbooks and reference books. Many people think that history is a boring subject when actually when you think about it, it could be very interesting. We could learn about how we became. The style of teaching here is to memorize facts, not to understand them. Which is wrong! In that school I came across so many people who knew facts but were actually so stupid and thick I could have kicked them.
Since Form 2 I begged my parents to change my school. Somewhere better. What I had in mind was a private school. I knew that I have potential in me. I know I can be smart. But I need a better learning environment. My parents kept saying no though to the topic of changing school. Why change school when it is only a 5 minute walk? Why pay so much for a snobby school? That's what my parents said. They kept saying that things would change when I get into upper form. Perhaps better teachers are there. Perhaps a more serious environment. But, they were wrong. Nothing changed. When I reached Form 4, I was put into the science stream class. I don't think anyone in that class had the attitude to learn. To excel. Trust me, I'm no dork but I do want to learn. I do want to succeed. My Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Additional Mathematics and Mathematics teachers were ALL trainee teachers. Argh! The horror! Most of them tiny little tudung women whose English were so bad I couldn't stop laughing or correcting them. Tiny little women who were so afraid to open their mouths. It was horrible.
Everyday I went home and complained to my parents about the situation in school. Finally four months into my Form 4 year they decided to change my school. I got transferred to Apiit Smart School which is a 15-minute drive away. I'm glad my parents finally realised things weren't going to change in my old school. After a week of being in Apiit, I can see things are so much better. Students there have so much more oppurtunity. And it's ashame really because I know there are some kids out there who have so much potential but can't afford to go to such a school. Even my family isn't the wealthiest out there but my parents know what priorities comes first.
Wow. I really ended up writing a whole story. Haha. And I only started writing this because I was waiting for my Grey's Anatomy to finish downloading. It's done now so I guess I'll stop here.
P/S : Our education minister doesn't even believe in his own system. He sends his kids to an international school.
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| Oh wow. That is really all I can say. Many of us must think that when the topic of the holocaust is brought up. The holocaust is still something very unbelievable to me. It is just simply unimaginable.
The Auschwitz concentration camps are the most well known ones. At this camp alone, an estimation of 2.5 to 4 million people died. Most of which were murdered. Those who weren't murdered mostly died of starvation or poor health. I was reading a survivors story, Alicia Appleman-Jurman. At the beginning of the holocaust she was only 9 years old. And yet she was so determined to stay alive. She managed to survive two mass shootings. Imagine that!
(See all those shoes? That's the amount of shoes collected from a days mass
killing. That is about 25,000 people a day!)
Ever since a young age, I have always been interested in the holocaust. I've watched many movies about it; most of them ending with me crying. Try taking a second from your obnoxious lives and think about what the Jews had to go through. And here we are being the biggest brats with all our handphones, computers and Ipods. Not even appreciating every single day of our life. The courage and braveness they had to possess to survive. I really salute them.
The holocaust is such a scary reflection of how humans can/could/have been. Could you take a gun and shoot two babies in the mouth? I do not understand how any human of the past and present could do that. Could the holocaust be happening again soon with all these terrorists? What has the world come to. Seriously.
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