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2009-07-10 Southeast Asia

Malaysia drops English for math, science classes

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Posted by Fred 2009-07-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Aigh! Seriously? At first I read that as "Malaysia dropping English classes in favor of more Math & Science courses", which was kind of worrisome. But they were teaching kids math & science in their non-native language? That's just fucking daft. Like the creaky old days where they taught every subject in Latin or Greek. Elitist clap-trap.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-07-10 09:27|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-07-10 09:27|| Front Page Top

#2 In Asia, learning English is viewed as key to being modern. They're fanatic about it. They all want to become like Singapore.

Posted by gromky 2009-07-10 09:37|| 2009-07-10 09:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Teaching science in English is important only because all science is published in English.

Basic maths should be taught in the local language though.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-07-10 10:05|| 2009-07-10 10:05|| Front Page Top

#4 A Rantburg article from a few days back states that Al Bore's favorite Malaysian - the allegedly gay Anwar Ibrahim - was behind this push. Tells you a little about Al Bore's judgment, doesn't it, that he supported an obscurantist during the Asian Crisis of the late 90's without knowing anything about his background? Or maybe Al Bore just digs obscurantists - given that he's one himself.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2009-07-10 16:53|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2009-07-10 16:53|| Front Page Top

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