Justification

Malaysia is not at all helpless, after the recently released UPSR results showed that our young Malaysians still can fare well in Math and Science in English. Thank you 12-year olds for proving to the old conservative minds that English is, needless to say, the way to go nowadays. These old men are only thinking for the sake the national language, not for the sake of the students' future.

Isn't the whole point of teaching the subjects in English obvious enough? Most of these young generations already have the serious problem of thinking and understanding things in their mother tongues, and the government made it worse by letting them do so. So what if they're having problems understanding them in English? Like it or not, they have to.

In the first place the teaching medium shouldn' have been changed from English to Malay in the 70's. That's 30 over years of damage done. Whose fault is it that people cant understand things in English? Whose fault is it that teachers cant teach in English? Now, even in some local universities, lecturers are still teaching in Malay. Look at the standard of our education when it was still in English, it was definitely way better than now. Who the heck changed it?

To sum up the issue, in Malaysia education begins after leaving school.