{"id":1048,"date":"2008-01-07T09:15:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T01:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/01\/07\/tambirajah-on-education-and-extremism\/"},"modified":"2008-01-07T09:15:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T01:15:15","slug":"tambirajah-on-education-and-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/01\/07\/tambirajah-on-education-and-extremism\/","title":{"rendered":"tambirajah on education and extremism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard the excerpts by Datuk Dr Thambirajah on TV3 yesterday night (is it only me, or is TV3 becoming pro-Indian now?)<\/p>\n<p>He said that only the parents can ensure the children&#39;s education. He said the community cannot depend on anyone else to improve their standards (means MIC and govt too?). <\/p>\n<p>He also said that education is the only way to uplift the community.<\/p>\n<p>SMC will work with anyone who is interested in the community development, but SMC does not support extremism.<\/p>\n<p>He also said MIC had done much for the community, but much more can be done (&quot;banyak lagi&quot; he said). It can be improved, he said. <\/p>\n<p>Focus on education and not extremism<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/1\/7\/nation\/19934222&amp;sec=nation\">source <\/a><\/p>\n<p> KUALA LUMPUR: The way forward for Indians is through education and parents play an important role in the progress of their children, Sri Murugan Centre (SMC) director Datuk Dr M. Thambirajah said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n He said it was important for parents to constantly check on their children&#8217;s performance in school.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n &#8220;Don&#8217;t blame the child if he or she is not doing well in school. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;As a parent, ask yourself what you have done to make your child a smarter person,&#8221; he said, when talking to about 1,200 parents on the Development of Human Capital and a Caring Society at the SM Vivekananda here.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n Yesterday saw the start of a series of nationwide road shows planned by SMC, which was founded in 1982. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> The centre provides free tuition to school students and is a centre for social and cultural advancement of Malaysian Indians, according to Dr Thambirajah.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n &#8220;We want to explain the recent concern of the Indian community and how the community can move forward through education.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n &#8220;In a multi-racial and multi-religious country, extremism by any ethnic or religious group will be counter-productive. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n &#8220;Extremism will destroy the fine fabric of racial unity, harmony and peace in our country,&#8221; Dr Thambirajah added. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard the excerpts by Datuk Dr Thambirajah on TV3 yesterday night (is it only me, or is TV3 becoming pro-Indian now?) He said that only the parents can ensure the children&#39;s education. He said the community cannot depend on anyone else to improve their standards (means MIC and govt too?). He also said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,108,24,139],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-education","tag-harmony","tag-mic","tag-smc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}