Comments on: But why Dong Jiao Zong wants to demo? (malaysiakini on English)

By: Adelina

Adelina — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:28:15 +0000

It’s the debate on teaching of both subjects in mother tongue again. Really can’t understand why must we insist on teaching them in mandarin? How many of us are going to send the kidsto Chinese medium universities? I was so happy when the govt announced the teaching of math and science in english, at least there are plenty of resources in english available. It is time to change the mindset of if you’re a chinese then u must go to a chinese school. I went to Convent school and I can speak and read chinese too. Why torture the kids by putting them in chinese school and they have got loads of homework to do? I would rather my kids spend the time learning more things than attending extra classes everyday.I intend to put my kids in kebangsaan school so that i can guide them by myself. How many of these teachers in chinese school can teach the subject properly, i think that some of them may not even be able to pronounce the terms.

By: pablopabla

pablopabla — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:03:20 +0000

Back from a busy period... Yes, that's one of the things I wanted to emphasise. There is something about the mandarin language which helps the young ones to learn Maths and Science a little bit easier and faster. DFZ is only asking that these two subjects revert back to Mandarin at the primary school level. As far as I know, my classmates who were from the Chinese primary schools (and my wife too) had no difficulty adapting to the change to learning Maths and Science in Bahasa during my school days. If we really want to integrate, then close all vernacular schools and go back to English medium. Then each student can student their own language during their people's-own-language class. Get rid of all schools, colleges and universities which are race-based. Then we can dream Obama style. pablopabla´s last blog post..Are You Ready For Commercial Real Estate?