6/4/10 EDUCATIONALLY WE ARE GEARING FOR WRONG QUANTITY.......

{Let talk about what best for this lady: clean river, pipe water, water tank to collect rain, pump well, or let her alone! Let talk. Let talk. Let discuss. Let have a seminar on this....and so fort. Then, what will she get?}

In year 2000, I remembered, revisiting my gurus at my Uni in Bangi, Selangor. I droped by at the Dean's Office, and saw the marks scored by the students displayed on the board. I was really amazed by their achievement. Most got better than C+, while during my times only a few really got beyond such standard. Myself personally, always achieved below C+, with only some of my favorite subjects do went to B.

(2) Later when I joint my gurus at their Coffee Club, I enquired about what I have seen on the Board. To my shocking, they said that their B+ score was nothing better than the D that we used to laugh at during our time. Definitely I seek clarification on the matter. Right or wrong, I was not sure, because the answer given was that the UMNO people had made lots of noise over the too small numbers of Malay Graduates getting a First Class Degree. Thus the Uni, was sort of being instructed to lower the Passing Marks so much so, the passing graph would skewed toward high achievers.

(3) Today I have the benefit of having an exchange of ideas with two big properties developer in Kuala Lumpur ie Tan Sri Lee and Tan Sri Yap. Apart from checking on the properties prospect and the Peninsula political scenarios, we were looking on what is our Country Comparative Advantage over our neighbors.

(4) We have the view that our last 10-15 years politcal climate had great influence over our current youngsters choice of academic preferrence. The political debate, the quarell, the squable that we had gone through the years had signaled to our youngs that in order for them to be heard, seen and recognise, they must be a great orator. All over the country we saw lots of talks, debate, forum, all sort, people seem to get what they want by the struggle of the mouths and tounges. The battle of the words seem the best strategy to realise their dreams, wants and needs.

(5) Thus we began to produce more and more graduates that really can talks, argue, fight, struggle for their rights. We saw stream of lawyers, theologist, sociologist, political science, mass communcation, and all sort that focus on ability to 'talk, argue, quarell, etc' as the main stream of educated people that we produced. Even TV3, despite the several unfriendly critics of Ungku Aziz and many others, seem continue to produce youngsters who just earn through their voice!

(6) Comparatively, how much did we produced Scientists, technologist, development scientist, basically the 'doers' rather the 'talkers'? And now we are moving toward greater production of Administrators and Managers into our job markets. What are these people going to manage if our development is stagnant and or slowing?

(7) I believe, we must study the Development Stage of Japan, German, Korea, Taiwan, and now China, and really analyse their Human Resource Development focus before they could achieve a Developed Nation status. Equally important, what are their HRD focus to sustain their good economic growth.

(8) I would bet, they trained more of their brains and hands to work rather their tounge to talk! Najib, how would you figure out those into your New Economic Model? In fact, there are already lots of this matter had been well reserached and written in the Macro-economic and Econometric text books.

(9) Historically, the development of the early Civilizations were due to the development of the technologist, and the down fall of many earlier empires were when the learned we just arguing of what to do rather than doing of what they must be doing! That was the fundamental reason, why Muhammad, he led not merely preaching! Today we are being to much wasting our times preaching in courts, ritual places, halls, parliment, DUN, etc. We are slacking in doing! We are going to drift far behind.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
11 April, 2010