Day In, Day Out

Each of us should have favourite books written by different favourite authors. I also have some. Currently, I revisit a book by John Holt which is The Underachieving School. It is indeed true that every time in which we revisit books we will find something new. It may not be something new, but maybe that every time when we read it, we interpret it quite differently (our brain grows and changes everyday). Nevertheless, we might find something which we may have overlooked the first time we read! Favourite quote for the time being: One of the things that are so wrong with school is that most of the words children hear there carry no nonverbal meaning whatever, and so add nothing to their real understanding. Instead they only confuse them, or worse yet, encourage them to feel that if they can talk glibly about something, it means that they understand it .(p. 18)   You know who your enemy is. But most of the harm that is done to children in schools they can't and don't...

Flipping through a local newspaper, there are abundance of wonderful suggestions on maximising our nation's potential. The below caught my eye the most: We Must Educate Young To Acquire Higher Order of Thinking Skills. It is indeed true, yet in Malaysia now, we have enough people who are good at throwing random brilliant suggestions. I truly believe that it is now the time in which we should produce more and appreciate people who can come out with this: How Can We Educate Young to Acquire Higher Order of Thinking Skills; instead of the above. Harap Maklum. 

This is a great post of finding your purpose and loving what you do. I read it all and feel like quoting every line from the post. It is great! Join me and let's be amazed. http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/02/27/purpose-work-love/

Today, I attended the Dialog Nasional Pendidikan Negara. It was neither a talk nor a conference instead, it is a dialogue. A rakyat dialogue. A dialogue in which the voice of rakyat were heard and being considered. During the dialogue, I'd came across a number of impressive suggestions for education such as alternative education and the idea to put more emphasis on building Malaysians' 'akhlak'. More, I dare myself to voice out my own opinion on Malaysian educational system. With that, I came out with 5 suggestions: To improve the teaching of Bahasa Malaysia (considering the result of my thesis); To improve the teaching of languages in Technic and Vocational schools; To revise and revamp English textbook (English textbook should be graded and created accordingly to a specific audience- eg: textbook for dyslexic, textbook for elementary level etc. ); For teacher professionalism, teachers should avoid sharing their Facebook page with their students; To provide ...