What this Malaysian voter wants on education
This is post no. 44, 4+4 = 8 = prosperity. Yes, essentially, this is what I want from our government. Because once we become a richer country, life would be better all around - although granted that not all problems will go away but hopefully there will be lesser and replaced by such 'happy' problems of having to decide what to eat! Instead of the problem of 'is there enough to eat'? Firstly, let's be fair to the existing government and civil servants - we are developing to be sure and it is helped a lot by petroleum revenues as well as private enterprise, but at the same time because the pace of growth has been quite high for a while - a lot of fundamental things are not done well and in the long run it will come back to haunt us. In fact the problems are already here: But lets start with one issue first: Education I think there is too much emphasis on tertiary education whereby it has become a matter of quantity over quality, we have failed in the lower le...