Saturday, September 11, 2010

In support of Parent Action Group for Education Malaysia (PAGE)

Read this for more information. I support this kind of grass roots, bottom up initiative. Sokong!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dr Ong,
Sorry, off-topic, but I look forward to reading your PhD journey experiences.

-inn

Anonymous said...

This is just a simple English and Maths. I am sure all adults in Malaysia adds up together will be : 650 Million years. 10 times older than Dinosaur Rules. O.K. Adults this is me : I am 44 years old man and was sodomised repeatedly, raped, molested, tortured by BN government people. In first world I am a billionaire just by law suits. This @#%^&*(+ is A REAL 3RD WORLD. Professional esteem worked for the fountain of justice. Practicing for master safety at my condition of fakes I tell you this is a real 3rd world. 3rd world. 3rd world. Regards. Soo Keong Chean aka Asylum Seeker.

cl said...

PAGE's noble quest would face a major stumbling block in contemporary Malaysian culture - the habitual use of bahasa rojak in the urban areas and mass media, which may lead certain quarters to conceive a negative perception of English as a contaminant of the Malay language and cultural identity. Many Malaysian websites are only in English although they aren't meant for an international audience. How can you expect the common man to look up at English when he sees it to have encroached too deeply into Malaysia's cultural sphere, as in even deeper than the colonial times? This is why PPSMI collapsed. Its many opponents cannot feel a teeny bit of its sincerity when it was propagated that learning two subjects in English won't harm the status of BM – while Malaysia's language conundrum has gotten worse outside classrooms!