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Education and Nationhood. (A compilation from EngineeringProfit’s comments)
Dear EngineringProfit,
Below is my compilation of yours comments in “Tun Mahathir to be acting Education Minister. Let's talk what you want for education?” with minor editing. Can I have your permission to post it at PM Tun Dr. Mahathir’s blog?
Dear PM Tun Dr Mahathir,
Please allow me to post a master in philosophy and psychology has to say about our education and nationhood.
We are once top in education producing inclusive great Thinkers, Educator, Intellectuals, Legal Professions, Writers, Executives, Diplomats, Administrators, Civil Servants and etc. Sixty years on, the national education system that was poised to produce knowledgeable, well-informed and socio-culturally enlightened citizens contributing fully to the nation’s development, instead churning out narrow-minded bigots and chauvinists whining in their own silos.
One of my many great grandchildren attended standard one in a national school this year. When he came home, I asked him to tell me things that happened in the memorable first day.
He said a girl with headscarf sitting in front of him threatened him that he would go to hell after a round of self-introduction in class.
My great grandchildren: Just because I am a Dayak and nonbeliever of her god or her holy scripture?
Me: Although your great grandfather, me, is a master in philosophy and psychology, I'll find it extremely challenging to undo the damage she had inflicted onto you intentionally or unintentionally.
My great grandchildren: I ran to question my class teacher, and guess what!? He affirmed what she told me!!!!
Failed education! When these learning places are not manned by the right people, they produce shameless bullies, irrational thugs and sick-minded racist bigots.......and see school principals who fail to give these of their very products a good lesson and telling off, would instead bow down to the stupendous demands of the racist bigots.
And how a nation can head toward the right direction when kids ......got cheated ...learn cheat mode ... and learn cheating in a humanistically unethical, openly unjust and sinfully inequitable education system.......
In the 21st Century, still we hear some absolutely innocent children; totally rebellious adolescent and mature adults got forced and indoctrinated to choose delusion over rationalism.......faith over evidence........
Some states and countries continue to cheat their people by funding futile way of learning in this age of Google and Wikipedia - memorization, rote learning and scripture recital take priority over cultivating curiosity, creative and critical thinking.
These skills (cultivating curiosity, creative and critical thinking) help students learn, and so they are vital to success in school and beyond:
Children just need to learn Socratic Method of questioning (cultivate curiosity), Plato's Cave (the habit of thinking out-of-the-box) and Epicurean Paradox (systematic examination of factual claims). Teach them to use their own brain effectively, creatively and critically, so that they can adapt to the fast changing global technocratic landscape in order to survive independently; without anyone to keep telling them the list of 'dos' and 'don'ts' in adulthood.
CRITICAL THINKING
A critical thinker is able to deduce consequences from what he knows, and he knows how to make use of information to solve problems, and to seek relevant sources of information to inform himself without a busybody second or third party. Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day. Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime!
Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally about what to do or what to believe. It includes the ability to engage in reflective and independent thinking. Someone with critical thinking skills is able to do the following:
1. Understand the logical connections between ideas
2. Identify, construct and evaluate arguments
3. Detect inconsistencies and common mistakes in reasoning
4. Solve problems systematically
5. Identify the relevance and importance of ideas
6. Reflect on the justification of one's own beliefs and values
Good critical thinking is the foundation of science and democracy. Science requires the critical use of reason in experimentation and theory confirmation. The proper functioning of a liberal democracy requires citizens who can think critically about social issues to inform their judgments about proper governance and to overcome biases and prejudice.
Critical thinking is a domain-general thinking skill. The ability to think clearly and rationally is important whatever we choose to do. If you work in education, research, finance, management or the legal profession, then critical thinking is obviously important. But critical thinking skills are not restricted to a particular subject area. Being able to think well and solve problems systematically is an asset for any career.
How does fundamentalism hamper critical thinking development, and hijack the course of sapiens' brain development? In moderation, religious and spiritual practices can be great for a person’s life and mental well-being. But religious fundamentalism—is almost has an opposite effect. This is primarily because fundamentalism which refers to the belief in the absolute authority of a religious text and ritual or leaders—and discourages progressive thinking about religion and social issues. Fundamentalist groups generally oppose anything that questions or challenges their beliefs or way of life. For this reason, they are often aggressive towards anyone who does not share their specific set of beliefs, and towards science, as these things are seen as existential threats to their entire worldview.
STOP RACISM
Take home this massage to schools (to bring home and educate their parents too):
Racism is a symptom of psychological ill-health. (HUMANISM)
It is a sign of a lack of psychological integration, a lack of self-esteem and inner security.
Psychologically healthy people with a stable sense of self and strong inner security are not racist, because they have no need to strengthen their sense of self through group identity. (PROGRESSIVE)
They have no need to define themselves in distinction to — and in conflict with — others. (REASON)
Scientifically there is no biological basis for dividing the human race into distinct "races." (SCIENTIFIC)
Scholars must not miss learning to understand.....understanding the bad consequences from extreme racism:
PROGRSSION OF RACISM: ENMITY TOWARDS OTHER GROUPS
In order to further strengthen their sense of identity, members of a group may develop hostile feelings toward other groups. The group may become more defined and cohesive in its otherness to — and in its conflict with — other groups. Act benevolently towards members of their own group, but be cruel and heartless to anyone outside it. When members of a group take the step of withdrawing empathy from members of other groups, limiting their concern and compassion to their fellows. They may act benevolently towards members of their own group, but be cruel and heartless to anyone outside it. Members project their own psychological flaws and their own personal failings onto another group.
(Progression into MALIGNANT STAGE (the most dangerous and destructive stage)
In the 1970-1990s, when people from around the world (students, youth and grown-ups) look up to Malaysia as an excellent model to follow. The reason is because in those days, Malaysia was able to combine religiosity with modernisation. Over the last couple of decades, the opposite reaction is what Malaysia gets. People are saying, ‘Look at Malaysia; this is what happens when you mix religion with politics. You’re going to be extremists, rampant corruption, near bankruptcy and kleptocracy. Malaysia is now the model to be avoided.
Today, government policy, decision making, leadership, and institutional development are all influenced by certain ‘sinister’ deep state dark forces. These subliminal psychological forces are controlling political outcomes that are appearing more irrational and dysfunctional as time goes on. These delusionally psychotic beliefs are heavily skewing political decision making. This cognitive dissonance has been destructive upon community relations, nation building, national culture, and even the noble concept of everyone's nationhood itself. While the neighbour governments and many others across the world try to build community integration, enhance the national culture, and hold nationhood as something sacrosanct, but Bolehland leaders are for political ends allowing these basic nation-building things to deteriorate. The native aspirations, original dreams and basic hopes of Sabahans, Sarawakians and Orang Asli have been excluded. Despicable leaders have led rakyats live within a psychic prison that is full of illusions about enemies which don’t exist ..........The narcissistic distain for other cultures was recently displayed when a school principal veer of an ultra- Malay party demanded that Chinese New Year decorations be removed from the school, while the outlaw still walk free and can still demand for dig-nity (Malu Apa Boss Ku). Citizens of Malaysia are now smothered with a single dimensional, myopic view. Racism has become so much embedded within local culture to the extent of delusion. It’s now ingrained into the psych........found in every school, every university, every institution, and every ministry. This is not what we want for “New Malaysia” What we want is exactly the opposite of the above!!!
Malay culture is quickly being killed off by the Arab fallacy. Malay and other indigenous cultures originated from three distinct sources. Those indigenous to Tanah Melayu (the Malay Peninsula), Sabah and Sarawak, those who migrated to Malaysia from the Nusantara archipelago and those who migrated to Malaysia while the Sultanates were riverine rather than territorially defined. Some of the migrants from outside of Nusantara over the centuries from China and South Asia formed a unique Baba culture that has co-existed with Malay culture for centuries. Once, Malays, Chinese, Indians and the other peoples of Malaysia celebrated Hari Raya, Chinese New Year, Christmas, Deepavali and many others cultural events together as a symbol of unity, this is now forbidden. (Haram)
Dahulu biar mati anak, jangan mati adat
Sekarang semua ala arab, papan catur pun berkulat
Thank you
Yours truly,
SS LEE
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"I don’t understand why people can be influenced by those who cheated and stole," PM said.
Clue to simple answer: education
Must relook into education - what and how the people learm from young.
Nolte is correct - Children Learn What They Live.
If children live with sharing, they learn generosity.
If children live with honesty, they learn truthfulness.
If children live with fairness, they learn justice.
If children live with kindness and consideration, they learn respect.
If children live with security, they learn to have faith in themselves and in those about them.
If children live with friendliness, they learn the world is a nice place in which to live.
Now, relook into national schools.....and the many narrow-minded teachers who take schools as preaching ground.
Again, 'RUKUN NEGARA' recital and appreciation are more than enough. Waste no time with surah al fatihah et cetera
2020-01-20 22:03
Zaid Ibrahim should be given a chance to run the education ministry.
2020-01-20 22:08
Dear Engineering profit,
Thank you. I just update it to PM Tun Dr. Mahathir's Blog comment waiting for published.
Thank you
2020-01-20 22:11
Dear EnginneringProfit,
Refer your comment, “Zaid Ibrahim should be given a chance to run the education ministry”
It was a great mistake and shortsighted of DAP for no nominated an urban Parliament seat in GE14 for Zaid Ibrahim to contest.
I am hoping that PPBM Wan Siafal who did not successes in winning the GE14 Pendang Parliamentary seat from PAS will be made a senator and appoint as our New Education Minister.
Below is Wan Siaful background:
Wan Saiful Wan Jan is the founding and former chief executive of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (www.ideas.org.my), and former Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) Singapore.
Wan Saiful has remained actively involved in community activities. In 2014 he helped set up IDEAS Academy, which is a charity secondary-level learning centre for refugees in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Prior to that, in 2012 he set up another charity project, the IDEAS Autism Centre to provide education, care and therapy for autistic children from urban poor households in Kuala Lumpur.
In 2018, Wan Saiful resigned from IDEAS to join politics, where he contested in the 14th General Election as a candidate for the Parti Pribumi Bersatu (PPBM) in the Pendang Parliamentary seat. Currently he is the chairman for the Perbadanan Tabung Pendidikan Tinggi Nasional (PTPTN), Malaysian government entity for students’ loans.
http://www.ideas.org.my/lets-chinese-schools/
Thank you
PS: Your article is now on PM Tun Dr. Mahathir’s Blog
http://chedet.cc/?p=3009#comment-146910
2020-01-21 07:03
Dear EnginneringProfit,
Another article I posted at PM Tun Dr. Mahathir’s blog base on your comments.
http://chedet.cc/?p=3009#comment-146916
Thank you
2020-01-21 09:00
Although moral, celestral, astromythological, biological and historical knowledge gap has narrowed down due to new evidences from scientific research by sapiens of all creeds and ethnicities, students' understanding of themselves, living things around them and the earth still embarrassingly too redimentary, pathetically too superficial and unassumingly primitive at best (by any modern standard)
What has gone wrong? Major hindrance? What is stopping the innocent children from learning properly, becoming a simpleton (Pak Pandir abad ke-21) or the 21st Century misfits (Si Lebai Malang)?
moe must bear full responsibility for producing Pak Pandir and Si Lebai Malang in this very challemging era, no?
2020-01-21 10:31
Herd mentality will kill creativity. Humans progressed when they started to THINK. Invention was possible due to necessity. When necessity is analysed the thinking starts, hence a solution is sought to alleviate the problem.
2020-01-21 10:43
A Tale Of Pak Pandir's and Si Lebai Malang's Lust For Mercedes (Ignorance s bliss)
Siegfried Marcus was born in 1831 in a tiny town that now lies in northern Germany. His parents Rosa and Lippman, leaders of the town’s Jewish community, discovered when their son was still very young that he – unlike other mortals – very rarely thought inside the box. The rest of the time, a constant lightning strike of neurons in his brain sparked primal inventions.
Marcus was a one-man patents office. During his life, he worked on many projects in the fields of mechanics, electronics, lighting, ultra-mechanics, and the development of artillery employing electric ignition. As many as 131 patents were registered in his name. The collection included eclectic inventions: Light bulbs, triggers for underwater mines, a printing instrument, a whale-hunting knife, a distributor and carburetor for an internal combustion engine, and more.
As significant and original as these inventions were, they were nothing compared to Marcus’s opus vitae. In 1870 (some say as early as 1867), the ingenious inventor installed a gas-fueled internal combustion engine in a simple hand wagon. Marcus was able to ride the makeshift vehicle for 15 minutes before seemingly alarmed local police arrested what appeared to be an approaching alien. That feat made him the first man in history to drive a fuel-powered vehicle.
In 1887, Marcus began to collaborate with the Märky, Bromovsky & Schulz motor company. That collaboration gave rise to what would be called the “Marcuswagen.” People were finally knocking on the scatterbrained genius’s door. The automobile was displayed in the Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna’s museum of technology) and ASME (the American Society of Mechanical Engineers) officially recognized him as the vehicle’s inventor. Karl Benz, who upgraded Marcus’s motored carriage to a real motorcar with a cooling system, brakes, a stable frame, and everything necessary to drive longer distances, patented it. That would eventually become the first Mercedes, which was named after a Jewish girl.
Promoting And Immortalizing Jewish Glory: A Luxury Car's Namesake Is Born
September 16, 1889, is the birthdate of “Mercedes” Adrienne Manuela Ramona Jellinek, the third child, and first daughter, of Emil Jellinek (1853-1918) and the former Rachel Goggman Cenrobert (1854-1893). Emil’s father was Rabbi Adolf Aharon Jellinek, was not only probably the best-known rabbinic orator of his day in Vienna, but also a scholar of midrashic and mystical literature.
The nickname Mercedes, meaning “mercies” in Spanish. Emil spent the winters in Nice, on the French Rivera, where he liked to race cars, calling his team by his daughter’s nickname. In April 1900, Jellinek and Daimler agreed that the company would design a new engine, which would be called “Daimler-Mercedes.” By 1903, Emil Jellinek had legally changed his surname to Jellinek-Mercedes.
2020-01-21 11:41
Posted by DickyMe > Jan 21, 2020 10:43 AM | Report Abuse
Herd mentality will kill creativity. Humans progressed when they started to THINK. Invention was possible due to necessity. When necessity is analysed the thinking starts, hence a solution is sought to alleviate the problem.
__________
Creativity is an indispensible skill in this Century. (Although herd mentality was more advantageous during Muhammad's or Genghis Khan's era)
2020-01-21 11:51
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2020/01/21/heavy-hand-of-religion-disrupting-studies-at-govt-schools-say-helpless-parents/
Why these parents are disappointed, worry or unhappy?
Parent 1:
Amir questioned the version of Islam being taught in the school. He said students were taught to question many traditional Malay-Muslim practices as being bid’ah. “When they go home to their families, they would even accuse family members of committing bid’ah through their religious practices,” he said. “Is this what the school administrators call ‘blessing’?”
Parent 2:
Haiqal was surprised when his niece told him of “illogical rules” at her school, such as a requirement that female students wear long pants under their long skirts, as well as gloves and long-sleeved T-shirts during sports and games. Haiqal said he was told by school authorities that the requirement was to avert male gazes on female students. “We didn’t have rules like these last time when we were in school, but we were still able to take care of ourselves and dress well to school,” he said.
Parent 3:
A concerned mother spoke of her daughter’s bizarre experience of her school’s obsession with the supernatural. Her daughter was told to attend a “ruqyah” session, in which Quranic verses are used to treat a sick person, as well as to cure from the possession of “bad jinns”. Her offence was missing the Talaqqi, or Quranic pronunciation classes, because she had to attend extra classes in Biology.
“My daughter was accused of being too lazy to study (the Quran) and of having disturbances from jinns. So they told her to come for the ruqyah session. It’s simply unbelievable,” said the parent who wanted to remain anonymous. She said the teacher had insisted that her daughter attend the Quranic recitation classes, even after being told that the biology teacher had requested that she be excused. “In the end, my daughter dropped the Biology subject when sitting for SPM last year,” she said.
2020-01-21 12:06
How could nationhood even be possible if:
the prime minister does not uphold fairness and meritocracy, but expect the rakyat to prioritize justice and forgo mediocrity;
the education minister does not ensure the school children live with honesty, kindness and consideration, but expect the young people to prioritize truthfulness and learn respect;
the home minister fail to assure everyone and ever party are living with security, but expect they learn to have faith and dignity in themselves and in those about them?
2020-01-21 12:26
PART 1: Ominous Vivious Cycle - Fundamentalism begets fundamentalism (How to march towards nation-building and global citizenry?)
Owing to decades of irresponsible, unaccountable and unethical public school funding? (CAUSE)
END REDULTS (EFFECT):
"I don’t understand how people can be influenced by someone who is facing trial for cheating, for stealing money,” PM
Can't they make good decision when they reach the voting age?
The prefrontal cortex is responsible for executive control, willful behavior, and decision-making. A 'deo volente' mental practice that centers on relinquishing control would result in decreased activity in this brain area.
Both religious fundamentalism and intense prayer — "which has, as its most fundamental concept, the surrendering of one's self" — reduces, suppresses and diminishes the activity in the prefrontal cortex and the frontal lobes connected with it, as well as the activity in the parietal lobes, hence could hamper the development of these parts of the brain in young sapiens.
PART 2: Self-fulfilling prophecy, Shiok sendiri syndrome or Self-indulgence-cum-destruction
Increased in religious fundamentalism has a inverse relationship cognitive flexibility and openness.
Brainwash from Young (Analogy= White shoe turning black)
Fundamentalism indicates unwavering attachment to a set of irreducible beliefs. Fundamentalism has a markedly stricted literalism as it is applied to certain specific scriptures, dogmas, or ideologies, and a strong sense of the importance of maintaining ingroup and outgroup distinctions, leading to an emphasis on purity and the desire to return to a previous ideal from which advocates believe members have strayed. Rejection of diversity of opinion as applied to these established "fundamentals" and their accepted interpretation within the group often results from this tendency.
Religious beliefs differ from empirical beliefs, which are based on how the world appears to be and are updated as new evidence accumulates or when new theories with better predictive power emerge. On the other hand, religious beliefs are not usually updated in response to new evidence or scientific explanations, and are therefore strongly associated with conservatism. They are fixed and rigid, which helps promote predictability and coherent to the rules of society among individuals within the group.
2020-01-21 12:32
PART 3: The Danger and Futility Of Overdriving Reward-processing Brain Circuit While Compromising The Development Of Frontal Lobe (Do At Own Peril, but why using public fund)
Religion is like 'sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll'? A recent study that Medical News Today reported on found that religion activates the same reward-processing brain circuits as sex, drugs, and other addictive activities; proving Karl Marx's notion that opium of all sapiens, no?
Coupled with the fact that both religious fundamentalism and intense prayer — "which has, as its most fundamental concept, the surrendering of one's self" — reduces, suppresses and diminishes the activity in the prefrontal cortex and the frontal lobes connected with it, as well as the activity in the parietal lobes, hence could hamper the development of these parts of the brain in young sapiens.
End results? Figure it out yourself!
PART 4: Garbage In, Garbage Out (G.I.G.O) - The 21st Century Cowboy-Pak Pandir-Si Lebai Malang vs Socrates-Plato-Aristotle-Epicurus Hybrid
With Socratic method of questioning over a long time, only the best ideas, leaders, policies, practices and philosophy survive.
With Plato's 'think-out-of-the-box' Cave, 3M's supposedly super-strong adhesive which turned out to be a "low-tack" adhesive, was put to good use? leading to the invention of the popular 'Post-it' sticky note.
With Aristotle's foundationalism, young Newton, the greatest seventeenth-century thinker, developed the surrounding theory of infinitesimal calculus in response to issues he perceived pertaining to his physics - gravity, planetary motion, etc.
With Epicurus' way of logical deduction and elimination of the 'not workable', Edison succeeded in his historical-cum-noble invention of light bulb.
2020-01-21 12:33
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Yes, you can. It is time for parents to teach young people early on that there is beauty and strength in diversity. And security breeds synergy. Like in chess, offensive player has a greater chance to win over defensive opponent. On behalf of PH, Tun has a responsibility to act fast against many NGOs and political parties which are going all out to destabilize the nation by creating a sense of insecurity among the less educated folks. Finally, time is not on PH's side. GE15 is approaching.
2020-01-20 21:37