Mark Eswar's Point of View

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Revamp The Education System - Sad Lessons from Moral Subject from 1983-1993

I'm a product of KBSR ( Kurikulum Baru Sekolah Rendah) &amp; KBSM (Kurikulum Baru Sekolah Menengah). Being born in 1976,The Dragons,we are the 1st batch of KBSR,KBSM and the last of SRP (Sijil Rendah Pelajaran) which was eventually replaced with PMR. I will try not to be racist in this article, but being a product of Malaysian Education system, I can't help it but being one.

My closest friend during primary is Mustapha bin Abdullah whose father worked in KTM in a small town in Perak.Nizam bin Daud father was a teacher.
Secondary was E.T.Lim, Gunalan, Nagen, Tan Kah Hee, Pannir and Dave.
Varsity - Nathan, Kamahraj, Prabu, Ganeshn, Theya, Suresh, Siva (No non-Indians)- Why?

Back then we had time table slot for Moral-Non Muslims &amp; Agama Class-Muslims. The interesting part of the Moral class is, we get to combine with other non-Muslim pupils from other classes, so we have a change of environment, at least for an hour. So what's the problem?

Primary 1 till Primary 6, we learned Moral.What's in Moral?

There's always been 3 main characters in each and every story. A yellowish, a brownish and a darkish characters, obviously Ali, Muthu &amp; Chong.Being a kid at the age of seven, you dont really care the color, religion or even if your friends hair is straight or curly.

This is how the story goes everyday in Moral Subject. Ali, Muthu &amp; Chong are thick friends. In each and every incident in their relationship as friends, Muthu will be the notorious one,Muthu will steal, Muthu will lie, Muthu will cheat, Muthu will catapult the chicken,cat &amp; dog. At times Chong joins him. Ali, will be monitoring the situation. Finally when Muthu &amp; Chong pays the price for their actions, Ali will come in to the picture and advice them that they shouldn't do this and that. Day in day out, this is what we have learned in Moral subject for that 10 years of my school life.

I didn't realise this till recently when i was engaged in a conversation with a friend of mine.Suddenly it striked my mind, why would the education system want to do this?
Is that a phycological warfare to undermine a certain races and to plant inferiority complex to certain group of people, so that they feel useless and helpless?
My heart became very heavy when i recalled how inferior i felt towards other pupils of a different ethnic.I asked my friend after so long, why this happened to us?
Innoncent child which was being indirectly suppressed and classified as the lier, cheater, robber and the notorious one.

I'm sure there are many more implicit phycological suppression being implanted in our educational system.

Please stop this killing!!! And save a soul from being phycologically affected.

We Malay,Chinese,Indian,Iban,Kadazan, Bidayuh would like to live as humans not to be known by our color or religion.

Mark Eswar