Sep 29 2008
Religion and ABSENCE of plans for Tamil schools
I’m not privy to the full proposal by the MIC as mentioned by its Information Chief, Saravanan. But I wonder, how do those non-Hindu students be accommodated while Hinduism is thought in the classes, in the name of Tamil language? We complain when our young children are “taught” to “baca doa” or youths forced listen to Islam-glorifying speeches either in school or universities, so obviously its unfair to force others to listen to Hinduism.
One option is to provide religious classes during the Agama Islam period. Only those parents who do not want to the children to be taught religion should send their kids for Moral Classes (perhaps the parents are atheist, or have no faith in the teachers, or are unsure of their religion…whatever). This is a potential logistic nightmare as thousands of religious teachers will be needed to teach Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism, Bahaism, Sikhism and so on. Coupled with lack of classroom, it will be a doomed effort.
Political wise, this will be deemed as undermining Islam as religious classes are taught in school just like Islam. So, those folks at UMNO and its frontmen will start to protest. Another headache.
So, I’m not sure how MIC came up with this proposal:
The MIC yesterday urged the Education Ministry to consider the party’s proposal to incorporate religious aspects into the Tamil language curriculum at the primary school level.
In making the proposal, MIC information chief Datuk M. Saravanan expressed disappointment over the current Tamil language curriculum.
“Learning the Tamil language is unlike studying the other languages as religion should be a main component of the curriculum.
“Therefore, I urge the Education Ministry to make the necessary changes to the Tamil language curriculum so that young Indians can be taught religious values from an early age,” he said after opening the annual general meeting of the Tamil Teachers Union of Malaya.
Saravanan, who is Federal Territories Deputy Minister, said that one of the reasons why Tamil schools were being politicised was the absence of short- and long-term plans for the schools.
The second thing which alarms me is the statement that “one of the reasons why Tamil schools were being politicised was the absence of short- and long-term plans for the schools”. Now, is this like throwing mud into one’s own face? The champion of the community, the guardian of Tamil schools, is telling us that THERE IS ABSENCE of plans??? What the $%^$&*@$%@^$&%&#%@%%. Yeah, I’m pissed off. 62 years and this is the nonsense we get. Another great job. Why don’t these people do us all a favor and go to the top most floor of a highrise and jump off?
I hope to God that Saravanan was misinformed, misquoted, misled, or mis-whatever.
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blunt statement from Sara . It’s not his fault . Sometimes you cant tape politician’s mouth for too long . One day it will burst . 62yrs of political history ……. i wish not to argue this as there are pro and con over the time . BUT , for lay people what it matters is end result that is visible , right ?
You can decorate your HQ with beautiful posters claiming developed society but for lay people they wont agree
till they see that just outside their door gate .
So who is giving these people the adrenalin to speak up and dig out past mistakes ? Nov25 and Mar8 ?
There’s always a tipping point . Mic Stars wont agree but it’s the law of life .
Sadly , the conditions of tamil schools became the bottle neck for the drive of learning Tamil .
Wealthy/professional parents actually avoiding tamil schools . sad…sad ….
50yrs have past… now the question is are policians going to “talk” for another 50yrs ?
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If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got.
—Author unknown
hahaha so at the end it still comes back to my theory ….. ‘change’
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