After I have read through almost all comments in Dr. Mahathir's blog, I found an interesting comment..So, I am going to share with all of you..I know some of you would not agree with me..~by ayahpong
-->Tak payahlah membawa contoh Singapura, mereka negara bandar. Jika seluruh Malaysia mempunyai kemudahan sekolah, peluang sama seperti anak-anak mereka wajarlah. Ini 2000 sekolah tidak ada elektrik/air nak laksana PPSMI.
TIMSS 2007 was a total reversal, with Malaysia losing out to Australia, England, Scotland and the United States in Mathematics (New Zealand not in the TIMSS 2007 list for Year 8 students) as well as being overtaken by Norway and Italy in science!
Malaysia plunged from No. 10 placing in mathematics in TIMSS 2003 to No. 20 placing in TIMSS 2007.
With the disastrous showing in mathematics at the eighth grade level, Malaysia not only lost to the five top Asian countries which took the first five places, namely Chinese Taipei (1), South Korea (2), Singapore (3), Hong Kong (4) and Japan (5) but also to Hungary (6), England (7), Russian Federation (8), United States (9), Lithuania (10), Czech Republic (11), Slovenia (12), Armenia (13), Australia (14), Sweden (15), Malta (16), Scotland (17), Serbia (18) and Italy (19).
In the three TIMSS 2007 for mathematics in eighth grade level, Malaysia dropped a hefty 45 score points from 519 points in 1999, 508 in 2003 to 474 in 2007 (500 is the TIMSS mathematics scale average). The Australian national report on TIMSS 2007 noted that Australia’s mathematics achievement score of 496 was “not significantly different to the TIMSS scale average” and “significantly higher than the remaining 31 countries, including Italy, Malaysia and Norway”.
For science, Malaysia also plunged below the TIMSS scale average of 500, falling to 471 points in 2007, a drop by 39 points as compared to 2003 (510). In 1999, Malaysia scored 492 points. Malaysia’s ranking in Year 8 science in TIMSS 2007 is No. 21, behind Sinagpore (1), Chinese Taipei (2), Japan (3). South Korea (4), England (5), Hungary (6), Czech Republic (7), Slovenia (8), Hong Kong (9), Russian Federation (10), United States (11), Lithuania (12), Australia (13), Sweden (14), Scotland (15), Italy (16), Armenia (17), Norway (18), Ukraine (19) and Jordan (20).
Ini UNESCO yang kata, bukan aku kata. Kalau UNESCO pun tak mahu ikut cuba bawa kajian lain.
… it is important that every effort should be made to provide education in the mother tongue. …
On educational grounds we recommend that the use of the mother tongue be extended to as late a stage in education as possible. In particular, pupils should begin their schooling through the medium of the mother tongue, because they understand it best and because to begin their school life in the mother tongue will make the break between home and school as small as possible.
(UNESCO 1951:691)
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/PDF/Math-Science%20Report*the above link has been removed by NST
Salam.
I support:
BM- Primary school.
BI- Secondary school.
p/s: I seriously think the gov. had wasted a loooooooot of money. And they will waste some more too.
IN MY OPINION, i would blame the govt because of the rash decision made by them. The program was commenced 3 months after the govt announced it to the public without doing any profound research especially in long term effects to the students. they should think about this before they invest the money.
penggunaan bahasa melayu dlm sains dan matematik adalah yg terbaik. itu pendapat saya.
rash decision? well, i would agree on that but one thing for sure, if it's established even a year later, we would not have the chance to study in english~
and i would say, the transition into english during pre-u would be harder for us..
penggunaan bahasa melayu dlm sains dan matematik pada peringkat awal pembelajaran -sek. rendah- adalah perlu. tetapi untuk jangka masa panjang, penggunaan bahasa inggeris di sek. menengah akan memberi faedah yang lebih banyak.