But politicians tend to be timid in the face of democratic populism

Nowhere Else In The World – How on earth can we expect Malaysians to integrate if the educational system keeps them apart for so long?

Anas Zubedy/Farish A. Noor @KEMPEN SSS

 

It takes a politician with guts to say that Malaysian kids ought to be able to meet, study, compete and succeed in a singular national educational system that mirrors the reality of Malaysia’s plural and complex society. And it takes some courage to state that if any Malaysian parent wishes his or her child to study Mandarin or Tamil, he should be able to do so in the same singular national schooling system where these languages should also be taught as Malaysian languages – languages that have been spoken in the region for centuries.