Finally, Mahathir concedes he screwed the merit system
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:02
Sambu lingam, via e-mailFormer Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad in a statement (FMT Sept 4, 2010) finally admitted that he and the Umno government intentionally discriminated against innocent non Bumiputra students by denying their educational rights as enshrined in the Constitution.
He said: "If we use the merit system , half of the university students (Bumiputeras) don't qualify..."
What one can gather from his statement is that the education system over the past 53 years has failed to produce Bumiputera students to meet the set requirement by Umno's own higher educational qualification merits.
Despite the billions spend to improve the educational achievements among Bumiputeras, citizens of this country are now been told by this longest serving Malaysian Prime Minister that Bumiputera students in Malaysia can only survive upon discrimination against their fellow non Bumi students. What a shame!
The former Prime Minister also revealed the truth on why local public universities are constantly dropping in international standard ratings. He admitted that half of the undergraduates did not qualify for entry into universities but were nevertheless granted places merely on race considerations.
I wonder how he justifies such brutal educational injustices. The moment a government tolerates such discrimination, it is actually planning to fail the country and its citizens over the years to come.
By implementing this racist based policies, thousands of fully qualified non Bumiputera students are cruelly denied entry into matriculation courses , local public universities intakes as well the PSD scholarships.
To summarise Mahathir's statement, he as the former prime minister and those in power ruling this country today clearly do not implement meritocracy in local university intakes, half of our university students are actually non qualifiers for higher education.
Fully qualified non Bumiputera students are oppressed and suppressed by the implementation of racially biased educational discrimination. The Umno-led Barisan Nasional government over the past 40 years have conveniently violated article 8 and 12 of Federal Constitution.no's own higher educational qualification merits.
CDespite the billions spend to improve the educational achievements among Bumiputeras, citizens of this country are now been told by this longest serving Malaysian Prime Minister that Bumiputera students in Malaysia can only survive upon discrimination against their fellow non Bumi students. What a shame!
The former Prime Minister also revealed the truth on why local public universities are constantly dropping in international standard ratings. He admitted that half of the undergraduates did not qualify for entry into universities but were nevertheless granted places merely on race considerations.
I wonder how he justifies such brutal educational injustices. The moment a government tolerates such discrimination, it is actually planning to fail the country and its citizens over the years to come.
By implementing this racist based policies, thousands of fully qualified non Bumiputera students are cruelly denied entry into matriculation courses , local public universities intakes as well the PSD scholarships.
To summarise Mahathir's statement, he as the former prime minister and those in power ruling this country today clearly do not implement meritocracy in local university intakes, half of our university students are actually non qualifiers for higher education.
Fully qualified non Bumiputera students are oppressed and suppressed by the implementation of racially biased educational discrimination. The Umno-led Barisan Nasional government over the past 40 years have conveniently violated article 8 and 12 of Federal Constitution.st their fellow non Bumi students. What a shame!
The former Prime Minister also revealed the truth on why local public universities are constantly dropping in international standard ratings. He admitted that half of the undergraduates did not qualify for entry into universities but were nevertheless granted places merely on race considerations.
I wonder how he justifies such brutal educational injustices. The moment a government tolerates such discrimination, it is actually planning to fail the country and its citizens over the years to come.
By implementing this racist based policies, thousands of fully qualified non Bumiputera students are cruelly denied entry into matriculation courses , local public universities intakes as well the PSD scholarships.
To summarise Mahathir's statement, he as the former prime minister and those in power ruling this country today clearly do not implement meritocracy in local university intakes, half of our university students are actually non qualifiers for higher education.
Fully qualified non Bumiputera students are oppressed and suppressed by the implementation of racially biased educational discrimination. The Umno-led Barisan Nasional government over the past 40 years have conveniently violated article 8 and 12 of Federal Constitution.
Same mistakes have been made in Sri Lanka, with the Sinhala only policies of 1956 and Standardization of University entrance by
ReplyDeleteMrs. Sirimavo Bandaranayake to favor the majority Sinhalese. That was also one of the major causes of the civil war.
In a Sri Lankan classroom, Singhalese and Tamil children will attend the same class when the teacher teaches in English.
ReplyDeleteWhen the teacher teaches in Singhalese, pupils who do not know Singhalese will not attend that class.
When the teacher teaches in Tamil, pupils who do not know Tamil will not attend that class.
How would they manage in a unitary Sri Lankan state?
Do the Singhalese and the Tamils share power?
Or should the dominant group have all the power?
When the dominant group oppresses the other group, does the rest of the world just say that is their fate?
Kanesalingam
With due respect, while it is important and socio-engineeringly correct to have students study in a unifying language (as many of us did in Bahasa), the fact that students are separated during language time in SL, in my opinion, is not the real reason for the enmity and misery.
ReplyDeleteAfterall, many Tamils speak Singalam (not sure if the reverse is true) and our people are far more versatile (I've personally heard Tamils fluently speak Swiss, Austrian, Swedish, German, Cantonese and many other languages) and if it means learning a language to get by, they will easily do it. In fact, they will ace it.
The problems in SL are much more than language. It's generations of bullying that has caused deep wounds and distrust among its people.
The question really is, how much will the Tamil pride succumb to, to heal the wounds. And of course, how much will the Singhalese share, to embrace peace.
I don't know the answer and I dare not even venture a resolution. I do remember Shaw's famous quip: "The Minority is sometimes right..."
Rgds
Ramesh.
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