A Step Back in Educating Our Students

As what you guys have read or seen in the news, our education ministry have decided to put a reverse gear in teaching Science & Math in English policy. Apparently some empirical studies show that only a small percentage of teachers taught fully in English for these two subjects, and then there's the issue of proficiency, etc2. If you ask me, this is such a huge step back in our education policy, and judging from the feedbacks received, the people are on quite the same page. First of all, no one ever said that it would be a walk on the park. The transformations need to be done from within the system itself and it takes patience and time. We need to start with giving the teachers the solid foundation to teach students in English (yes, at times we are better than our teachers in English, except our English teachers of course).

I also have to disagree with the government's initiatives to put more emphasis on learning and teaching English itself. Teaching English solely for students to understand technical terms later on is not the same as teaching these two subjects in English. I would say that learning Science & Math in English is like killing two birds with one stone; you got a better command of the language and be more proficient, and let's face it, you'll understand better If you ask me, the message and information is transfered quicker and better in English, especially those technical terms. It makes more sense in explaining to people.

Well, that's about it. I hoped that I babbled the right thing, haha...Signing off...